Despite its contracts with national governments and rumored connections to the Emirati royal family, the UAE’s Venom Foundation presents itself as any other crypto company — undecipherable jargon, vague promises, and all.
Here's some ingredients: chess lover, likes to sit quietly for hours at a time in a dark flotation chamber, wears sunglasses indoors, runs a Middle East spy agency, cycling fanatic, eats one meal a day, believes he can live to age 150, controls billions of dollars and is
Imagine a distant island part of a crescent-shaped archipelago. Atop a hill
there sits an enormous pink palace with dozens of rooms, gardens and a heliport.
Everyday the household staff wake up to maintain the property, cleaning rooms
and dusting off the Louis XIV furniture. The hedges are trimmed. Seasons
