Dragon Coin ICO link to Cambridge Analytica emerges in new report

Another infamous name has been linked to Dragon Coin, and it’s a company you might’ve heard of recently.

Cambridge Analytica, the digital data harvesting firm that has been in the news recently for all the negative reasons you can imagine, has found itself in the limelight again. A New York Times report linked the embattled data firm to Dragon Coin’s initial coin offering (ICO) in late 2017.

A quick recap: In October, Hong Kong-based gaming company Dragon Corporation initiated a token crowdsale to raise $500 million and bring blockchain to Macau. Proceeds from the ICO would go towards the development of the 1,600-square meter floating Dragon Pearl Casino Hotel.

While the Dragon Corp. executives were glad-handing and posing for publicity photos with figures like former 14K Triad leader Wan ‘Broken Tooth’ Kuok Koi at the Dragon Coin event, Cambridge Analytica had been busy behind the scenes, emailing potential partners and investors as well as making arrangements for all-expenses-paid trips to the glitzy Macau shindig, according to the report.