Not long after President Trump established a strategic bitcoin reserve and pledged to make the U.S. the “crypto capital of the world”, a new corporate bitcoin entity, backed by the investment firm his commerce secretary built,

Cantor Fitzgerald, the financial services firm formerly led by U.S. commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, is the latest company to enter into the Bitcoin acquisition business. The company, which is now chaired by Lutnick’s son Brandon Lutnick,

Cantor Fitzgerald, SoftBank, Tether, and Bitfinex have joined hands to launch a public Bitcoin company with the "third-largest Bitcoin treasury in the world."