what's trump?
$Trump is a Solana-based meme coin launched on January 17, 2025, just before Donald Trump's second presidential inauguration, capitalizing on his persona and the growing intersection of politics and cryptocurrency. The project created one billion tokens, with 200 million released via an initial coin offering and 800 million held by Trump-affiliated companies, quickly achieving a market cap exceeding $27 billion in its first day. Its purpose is to onboard new users to crypto, promote Trump-themed digital assets, and integrate with merchandise and events like "Dinner with Trump" NFTs. Key features include liquidity support through token movements to exchanges, cross-chain compatibility such as with TRON, and recent initiatives like the Fight Fight Fight LLC-led digital asset treasury aiming to raise $200 million to $1 billion for token accumulation amid market volatility. The coin has faced significant price swings, including a 90% collapse tied to tariff announcements and liquidity crises, while advancing institutionally with the Canary Trump Coin ETF appearing on DTCC listings.
Hoskinson criticized Trump Coin for predatory behavior, politicizing crypto, damaging US crypto regulation.
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Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson publicly criticized Trump Coin as enabling "predatory behavior" and politicizing crypto, arguing it damaged bipartisan regulatory momentum for U.S. crypto legislation in early 2025.
Top traders and whales distributed holdings to retail and exchanges over the past 30 days, with no accumulation activity from Smart Money wallets in the 7-day and 30-day periods.
Open interest for TRUMP on Lighter reached $5.3 million as of January 6, 2026.
Price rose following the U.S. capture of Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro on 2026-01-02.
FalconX provided day-one OTC options liquidity for the token launch.
Reached a market capitalization of $16 billion in 2025.
Listed on Bybit as the first major centralized exchange to list the token, achieving an all-time high increase of 548% following the listing.
Plans to launch a new token with an airdrop to shareholders.
Launched on Meteora as the first major token launch event testing the platform at scale in early 2025, serving as a blueprint for future large-scale on-chain token launches.
Transferred 94 million USDC from the deployer address to Coinbase over the past three weeks, sourced from single-sided liquidity provision sales on Meteora.
Reached a market capitalization of over $70 billion.
Price reached an all-time low of $5.
Large linear unlocks with daily releases exceeding $1 million scheduled for the next seven days according to Tokenomist, part of a broader $309 million unlock event across multiple tokens.
A trader characterizes $TRUMP as a "scam pump" that they profitably shorted at the top, grouping it with other tokens they traded using the same strategy.
House Democrats push for legislation to limit elected officials and their families from issuing, endorsing, or profiting from digital assets while in office.
Trump Billionaires Club mobile game launches December 30 on Apple App Store, created by Bill Zanker with Monopoly-style gameplay and airdrop rewards for top pre-launch point earners.
Token float nearly doubles from 20% to 39% with corresponding 86% price drop since Q1 launch.
The official Trump Mobile Game launches with a free waitlist that provides users a chance to win a share of $1M in $TRUMP token rewards.
The Trump Billionaires Club mobile game launches soon, powered by OpenLoot and using $TRUMP token for in-game transactions and activity.
$TRUMP records $198M in 24-hour trading volume, ranking among the highest volume surges in the market according to CoinMarketCap data.
Trump tweets the ticker $BIG on Truth Social, a different Solana token, marking only the third ticker Trump has publicly tweeted after $TRUMP and $WLFI.
MELANIA token launched after TRUMP's inauguration pump, negatively impacting TRUMP holders.
Token unlocks of over $1 million per day scheduled for the next seven days according to Tokenomist.
800,000 wallets hold $2B in losses from the token.
TRUMP token declined 79% since Trump's inauguration, performing worse than major cryptocurrencies including BTC (-13%), ETH (-9%), and SOL (-47%).
Upbit CEO confirms the exchange will fully reimburse all affected users from its own reserves following the $36.6M hack, with cold wallets remaining uncompromised while technical cause of the breach remains under investigation.
Upbit exchange suspends all deposits and withdrawals after $36.8M in Solana-network assets including TRUMP are transferred to unknown external wallet on Nov 27, 2025 at 04:42 KST.
$287M in trading volume recorded, placing it third highest among top 20 tokens by volume.
Gavin Newsom announced a competitive memecoin approximately 3 months ago that remains unlaunched.
Founder announces plans to release the project's first roadmap, citing regulatory environment changes that now allow US founders to share future plans without legal risk.
Trading volume reaches $80M in a single day.
Daily linear token unlocks exceeding $1M per day scheduled for the next seven days according to Tokenomist data.
Receives a 2 out of 5 star rating among ETF-filed memecoins, ranking lowest among major projects including DOGE, MOG, and PENGU (all rated 5/5 or higher). Maintains position as the most traded on-chain memecoin by absolute volume.
Trump Coin trades 91% below its 52-week high, underperforming most major assets including Bitcoin (-22%) and Ethereum (-35%) in the comparative analysis.
TRUMP receives a bearish technical analysis rating from Sharpe DEX Scan in their latest 24-hour scan of top 10 tokens.
A whale accumulated 121k tokens worth $951K from Bybit, bringing total holdings to 233.5k tokens ($1.81M) at average entry price of $7.08.
Ranks #8 for social media mentions across all major channels, placing behind only Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, XRP, Dogecoin, Zcash, and Cardano.
TRUMP tops list with 0.58x 24h volume-to-market-cap ratio, ahead of VIRTUALS (0.50x) and UNI (0.48x).
$TRUMP gains 18-24% today alongside Trump-linked token $WLFI (up 24%), with a Shutdown Deal referenced in connection with the price movement.
TRUMP gains 26% from pre-liquidation levels one month after a major market crash, becoming one of few exceptions to recover.
TRUMP records $1.2B in 7-day trading volume on Solana.
Major linear token unlocks exceeding $1 million per day are expected over the next seven days according to Tokenomist data.
A new wallet withdraws 2.5 million tokens ($18.85 million) from Binance in 12 hours and becomes the largest holder wallet excluding project-locked contracts, liquidity pools, and exchange addresses.
TRUMP is now available for perpetual trading on Virtual's ACP V2 platform powered by Symphony's execution layer, alongside 65+ other tokens, with the platform executing over 1,000 perp trades in its first 5 days.
TRUMP breaks out of a falling wedge pattern. Republic.com talks are ongoing and a $200M buyback is proposed.
HTX exchange launches a crypto futures trading contest featuring TRUMP alongside DOGE, TRX, ZEC, and FARTCOIN with $15,000 in prizes, ending November 11th.
TRUMP ranks 5th among top daily crypto gainers on 6/11/25 per CoinMarketCap.
TRUMP maintains the highest on-chain volume among major memecoins, with only one other token (USELESS) approaching comparable levels during the recent market downturn on November 5th.
Trump-linked ventures made $802M in early 2025 via WLFI token sales, TRUMP memecoin and USD1 yields; Alt5 Sigma and foreign buyers converted tokens to cash while experts warn of conflict risks.
A fresh wallet withdrew 421.1k tokens (~$3.05M) from Binance 1 hour ago.
Meteora's $TRUMP liquidity pool value reaches nearly twice the market cap of $MET itself.
TRUMP ranks 3rd in 24h liquidity with a 0.45x volume-to-market cap ratio among major tokens.
$TRUMP shows positive price performance while the broader cryptocurrency market declines.
TRUMP tokens will have large linear unlocks exceeding $1 million per day over the next seven days, according to Tokenomist data.
America.fun launchpad gains support from Solana official account, founder Toly, Bonk, and Raydium; WLFI advisor cryptogle personally purchases $VALOR tokens, which reaches $16M all-time high.
Meeting between Trump and Mohamed Bin Salman scheduled for November 18 at the White House.
US Senator Chris Murphy alleges that Binance helped coordinate the TRUMP memecoin launch in exchange for CZ's pardon, with the allegation featured in the Wall Street Journal.
Retail traders experienced losses from sequential Trump, Melania, and Milei meme token launches, with excessive token proliferation fragmenting attention and liquidity across the market.
Trading volume for $TRUMP has spiked sharply over the past few days despite the market downturn.
The Official Trump Meme team wallet accumulates 27.37M $VALOR tokens ($240K value), now the wallet's largest holding after $TRUMP, with tokens launched on America Launchpad.
Whale experiences liquidation on TRUMP long position as part of three rapid liquidations across BTC, TRUMP, and ENA, losing $4M in profits and now down $238K total.
Binance now actively supports all Trump coins and promotes its stable coin, with trading patterns suggesting CZ and Binance began max bidding following CZ's pardon.
A trader publicly recommends shorting TRUMP as part of a long/short basket strategy.
Price surged 45% this week while smart money and whales show -$2.6M net outflow, with $25.7M deposited to exchanges and $16M bought by fresh wallets.
New whale buys $1.07M worth of tokens on Solana (165,401 tokens at $6.45) and opens $9.5M leveraged long position on Hyperliquid, sitting on over $1.5M combined unrealized profit.
$TRUMP and $BERT appear together on the front page of the New York Times.
Bloomberg reports acquisition talks between Fight Fight Fight LLC (the issuer) and Republic's U.S. crowdfunding platform business, potentially expanding token use cases into startup fundraising and payment applications. Republic has received investments from Galaxy Digital and Binance's venture arm.
Trump family earned over $800M from crypto in 2025, with most profits from World Liberty Financial and $TRUMP coin.
TRUMP becomes bridgeable to Starknet through new Hyperlane-powered bridge on StarkGate, expanding cross-chain infrastructure.
Token gains 20% in 24 hours with liquidity exceeding $320M and volume approaching $500M.
Maintains #2 position on CoinMarketCap's top daily crypto gainers for second consecutive day on October 29, 2025.
Volume on Hyperliquid exchange increases rapidly from 3M to 185M. (ID: 1983379647447683494)
Truth Social announces prediction market partnership with Crypto.com, causing a rally. (ID: 1983188213591364069)
Open Interest increases 110% over the last two days.
Token gains 12% on October 28 but receives BEARISH technical analysis rating on Sharpe DEX Scan, while ranking among top tokens by 24h trading volume relative to market cap.
CoinMarketCap lists token as #2 top daily crypto gainer on October 28, 2025.
Token surges 20% (biggest gain in half a year) after President announces US-China trade deal will happen, while whales accumulate positions heavily. Token ranks #3 on AltRank for convergence of social energy and market performance.
Token price increases 25% with rising trading volume.
A trader named Ogshoots allegedly insider traded the coin for huge profits, with lie detector test results cited as evidence of the activity.
Three TRUMP team addresses (including the developer address) received a $4.2M Meteora airdrop and immediately deposited all funds to OKX exchange. A U.S. class-action lawsuit alleges Meteora founder orchestrated MELANIA and LIBRA meme coin scams.
Robinhood retail users show sustained accumulation of TRUMP with continuous growth in holdings as users DCA weekly paychecks into the token.
Linear token unlocks of over $1 million daily are scheduled for the next 7 days, according to Tokenomist data.
TRUMP was overtaken by $USELESS memecoin in on-chain trading volume yesterday.
A whale wallet purchases $5.5M in the last 2 days; the same wallet previously bought over $10M, secured 40% profit and exited.
Barron Trump holds an estimated 25,466,893 $TRUMP tokens.
During Q1 Trump coin launch, Meteora's users generated $500M in fees as revealed by Soju & Zen.
Eric Trump states the Trump family has made more than $1 billion from its crypto ventures.
March 2025 characterized as "Post $TRUMP Crash" period with blockchain metrics showing $92B TVL, $4.3B DEX volume, and $3.7B perpetuals volume, marking a significant market event reference point.
TRUMP ranks #7 in social activity across all cryptocurrencies, with the top 10 coins accounting for 79.6% of total crypto social activity.
Conservative media company Newsmax receives board approval to purchase up to $5 million in TRUMP tokens and Bitcoin as a strategic treasury allocation, with news breaking via Reuters and Bloomberg terminals.
DT Marks DEFI LLC (Trump owns 70%) received 22.5 billion of 100 billion WLFI tokens with equity falling from 75% in December 2024 to 38%, while the LLC receives 75% of token-sale proceeds after deductions. Onchain deployer actively sells TRUMP and MELANIA tokens.
Sharpe DEX Scan rates TRUMP as BULLISH and includes it in their top 10 trending tokens list.
Financial Times reports Trump and family earned over $1 billion in pre-tax profits from crypto ventures in the past year, with TRUMP and MELANIA coins generating $427M, WLFI token sales bringing $550M, and USD1 stablecoin recording $2.71B in sales.
Token shows 0.33x ratio of 24h trading volume to market cap, ranking 5th among top tokens by this metric.
TRUMP token faces major linear unlocks exceeding $1M per day over the next 7 days according to Tokenomist data.
Two wallet addresses made $150M in combined profits by shorting ETH and BTC hours before Trump's October 10th tariff announcement, with allegations that insider information leaked from within Trump's team.
Token confirmed as the most traded on-chain memecoin, ahead of all competitors including Fartcoin.
Trading volume shows recovery with today's DEX volume higher than yesterday's, despite remaining below the token's launch and inauguration day levels.
Order books completely wiped out with the token going close to zero as liquidity fully vanished during the recent market crash, representing an unprecedented liquidity crisis beyond the previously reported 90% collapse.
Token experiences a 90% price collapse coinciding with Trump's new tariff announcement.