Trump Media & Technology Group, Crypto.com and Yorkville Acquisition Corp. mutually terminated plans on August 7 to launch Trump Media Group CRO Strategy, a proposed public digital-asset treasury company centered on Crypto.com's Cronos token. The venture had been framed as a roughly $6.42 billion financing package, including $1 billion of CRO, $200 million in cash, $220 million from mandatory warrant exercises and a $5 billion equity line of credit, but the companies said prevailing market conditions and changing business and stakeholder priorities led them to abandon the deal. The move also narrows other parts of Trump Media's Crypto.com relationship. Plans to embed Truth Predict directly into Truth Social have been dropped in favor of a marketing arrangement for Crypto.com's prediction-market products, and a separate plan for Crypto.com to service certain proposed Yorkville America exchange-traded funds has also been canceled. The companies said Yorkville America's existing Truth Social-branded funds and other ETF plans remain unchanged. Trump Media's pullback does not amount to a full exit from crypto. Under a separate August 2025 strategic partnership, Trump Media agreed to buy about $105 million of CRO for its own balance sheet and Crypto.com agreed to acquire $50 million of Trump Media shares. That transaction remains intact. The shift comes as weaker crypto markets weigh on token-treasury models, with CRO trading at about $0.0616, down roughly 70% over a year, while Trump Media has turned toward its proposed all-stock merger with TAE Technologies, announced in December 2025 at a value of more than $6 billion.