Former CoinDesk exec calls out Justin Sun at Davos awards
Justin Sun was called out during a spin-off Davos award event by a former CoinDesk exec Michael Casey who was unhappy with how the Tron founder managed to get the crypto publisher to remove an article. The Davos 2025 Most Influential Awards, handed out as part of the 2025 AI & Crypto Summit, piggybacked off CoinDesk’s own 2024 Most Influential list. Sun not only won one of the awards but was also the focus of its press release. However, despite this, another winner, CoinDesk’s former Chief Content Officer, Casey, took the opportunity to rip into Sun and CoinDesk owner Bullish over its removal of an article covering Sun’s $6 million purchase of a piece of art that consists basically of a banana taped to a wall. Justin Sun complaint leads to CoinDesk removing banana article The article, titled “I Watched Justin Sun Eat the World’s Most Expensive Banana. I Don’t Get It” details journalist Callan Quinn’s experience of watching Sun devour the $6.2 m...