{"id":563496,"date":"2026-03-03T08:53:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T08:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/bitmex-co-founder-pledges-27m-to-london-maths-institute-after-trump-pardon\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T08:53:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T08:53:24","slug":"bitmex-co-founder-pledges-27m-to-london-maths-institute-after-trump-pardon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/bitmex-co-founder-pledges-27m-to-london-maths-institute-after-trump-pardon\/","title":{"rendered":"BitMEX co-founder pledges $27M to London maths institute after Trump pardon"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BitMEX<\/p>\n

Ben Delo paid a $10 million fine after pleading guilty to US banking violations in 2022 and was granted a pardon by President Donald Trump in March 2025.<\/p>\n

BitMEX co-founder Ben Delo pledged 20 million British pounds ($27 million) to the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences (LIMS), ranking among the largest private donations ever made to a United Kingdom research institution outside Oxford and Cambridge, British magazine Times Higher Education reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The commitment includes $13.3 million upfront and $13.3 million to be released once the Mayfair-based institute matches the amount through additional fundraising, Times Higher Education reported<\/a>. The gift launches a wider campaign aimed at building an $80 million endowment to secure LIMS\u2019 long-term future, per the report. <\/p>\n

\u201cI would like to see LIMS winning Fields Medals and Nobel Prizes \u2013 they are already doing some world-class things and I want to help,\u201d Delo told the magazine. <\/p>\n

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Ben Delo paid a $10 million fine after pleading guilty to US banking violations in 2022 and was granted a pardon by President Donald Trump in March 2025. BitMEX co-founder Ben Delo pledged 20 million British pounds ($27 million) to the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences (LIMS), ranking among the largest private donations ever made […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":563497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-563496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}