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Go to space with Justin Sun Crypto exchange HTX (formerly Huobi) said it will send one user a $6 million ticket to blast off to space alongside Justin Sun in July 2025. Tron founder Justin Sun is known for riding pop culture waves. (Justin Sun) The campaign will select five additional finalists to join seven previous winners to form a 12-person shortlist. One person will ultimately be chosen to participate in the commercial spaceflight. The exchange has actually been talking about doing this since 2021, when Sun was revealed as the winner of a $28 million auction for a ten-minute trip into space. It’s unclear why the trip itself has been delayed so long, but scheduling conflicts have been cited. One bonus for Sun is that he’s received four years of publicity about the very, very expensive promotion. The latest announcement comes amid renewed scrutiny of space tourism, following Blue Origin’s NS-31 mission in April that sent pop star Katy Perry, TV host Gayle King, and Jeff Bezos’ partner Lauren Sánchez into suborbital flight. The trip drew backlash from activists and celebrities who questioned its purpose and optics. Others saw the historic all-female mission into space as empowering, while many people just thought going into space would be really cool, especially if someone else is covering the extraordinarily high costs. Justin Sun has a history of partaking in attention-driving spectacles, including his $4.6 million bid to have lunch with Warren Buffett and eating the banana from a $6.2 million art piece that had been taped to a wall. The banana itself was a replaceable store-bought item worth about a buck, again demonstrating that Sun is the undisputed master of publicity. Vietnam wants a homegrown layer-1 blockchain A group of Vietnamese financial institutions has unveiled the 1Matrix initiative to build the…

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