Crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun ate the pricey snack at a news conference where guests were given bananas and duct tape to create their own versions.

Upon hearing how much Sun bought the fruit for, the vendor, Shah Alam, was in disbelief. Sun then promised to buy 100,000 more bananas from Alam, or $25,000 worth of produce, in a series of posts on X/Twitter.

The banana regularly is replaced with a fresh one ... accuse Sun and his wholly owned companies of fraudulently manipulating the secondary markets for crypto asset securities Tronix and BitTorrent, which the SEC says are unregistered asset securities ...