Sep 7, 2026
Coins
Hunter Biden to Airdrop LAPTOP Meme Coin to TRUMP’s Biggest Losers
Hunter Biden is getting into crypto, and he's doing it by cashing in on his own scandal. The son of former President Joe Biden plans to launch a meme coin called LAPTOP on Sept. 9, based on a post today on X. Per the Wall Street Journal, Hunter Biden’s meme coin will trade on Base, the Ethereum layer-2 network—a faster, cheaper blockchain built to run alongside Ethereum—that Coinbase created in 2023. Myriad: Will Congress pass the Clarity Act? Click to make your prediction. The name isn't subtle...
Jul 10, 2026
Law and Order
Democrats Call for Senate Hearings on Trump's Massive Crypto Profits
Democratic senators are calling for congressional hearings into President Donald Trump’s crypto holdings after new financial disclosures revealed they generated over $1.2 billion in income for him last year. Five Senate Democrats—Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Gary Peters (D-MI), Dick Durbin (D-IL), and Ron Wyden (D-OR)—said the disclosures raised concerns about potential conflicts of interest, foreign influence, and Trump’s role in shaping crypto policy while profiting off...
Jul 3, 2026
Law and Order
Senator Gillibrand Seeks to Ban Trump, Elected Officials From Launching Meme Coins
Following this week's disclosure that President Donald Trump earned more than $1.2 billion from his crypto endeavors last year, New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is once more calling for a ban on the issuance and promotion of digital assets for politicians and their spouses. The ban would extend to meme coins, which Trump and his wife, First Lady Melania Trump, both benefitted from during the last year, with the president reportedly earning more than $635 million from his Solana-based meme co...
May 4, 2026
Law and Order
Trump Family’s World Liberty Claims in Lawsuit That Justin Sun Shorted WLFI, Crashed Price
The Trump family’s crypto firm, World Liberty Financial, filed a lawsuit Monday against Tron founder Justin Sun, accusing the crypto entrepreneur of shorting their token last fall and then defaming the company once his holdings of the asset were frozen. The suit comes just weeks after Sun himself—one of the largest holders of the company’s WLFI token—filed a lawsuit against World Liberty, accusing the company of improperly freezing his investment. Monday’s lawsuit, filed by World Liberty in Flor...
Apr 28, 2026
Long Reads
Inside Trump’s Meme Coin Bash: Foreign Guests, Iran War Riffs, and Mar-a-Lago Charm
President Donald Trump on Saturday attended a conference for top holders of his meme coin, delivering off-the-cuff remarks for nearly an hour to an adoring crowd of crypto investors, tech executives, hedge fund managers, and MAGA diehards. The event, held at Mar-a-Lago, landed as the Trump family’s sprawling crypto portfolio faces growing scrutiny on Capitol Hill, causing divisions even among Republicans as key crypto legislation stalls in Congress. Yet the president appeared undeterred this we...
Apr 22, 2026
Law and Order
Justin Sun Alleges Trump's World Liberty Threatened to Burn His WLFI Tokens
A lawsuit filed by Justin Sun against World Liberty Financial has accused the Trump-backed crypto venture of trying to extort the Tron founder by allegedly threatening to destroy his WLFI holdings and report the controversial entrepreneur to U.S. authorities. Not long after World Liberty blacklisted 4 billion WLFI in September that Sun had purchased, co-founder Chase Herro allegedly urged the crypto billionaire to voluntarily remove his tokens from circulation as part of an ultimatum, according...
Apr 9, 2026
Law and Order
Meet the Anti-Trump Crypto Developer Running for Congress in Virginia
November’s hotly anticipated midterms are poised to bring a new wave of legislators to Washington for the first time—including, potentially, America’s first crypto developer-turned-congressman. Joe Schiarizzi, a longtime Ethereum developer, launched a campaign Thursday to run as a Democratic House candidate in D.C.’s Virginia suburbs. Schiarizzi plans to run in Virginia’s 7th congressional district, which, pending a statewide ballot measure, could be redrawn later this month and left without an...
Mar 13, 2026
Coins
Trump Meme Coin, Render and Pi See Double-Digit Rallies as Bitcoin Rises
Bitcoin has been locked in a relatively tight trading range for weeks. But that hasn’t stopped a few altcoins from staging double-digit rallies fueled by specific catalysts and a broad return of risk appetite. The leading cryptocurrency has traded between roughly $73,000 and $62,000 for the past five weeks. Over the last 24 hours, Bitcoin has shown renewed resilience, climbing nearly 3% to trade at $72,300, according to crypto price aggregator CoinGecko. This stabilization comes as exchange-tra...
Mar 12, 2026
Business
President Trump Is Hosting Another Exclusive Event for Meme Coin Holders
President Donald Trump’s official Solana-based meme coin—TRUMP—jumped more than 10% in an hour Thursday before retracing, following news that top token holders can earn an invite to an exclusive event featuring the president at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on April 25. Recently changing hands at $2.92, the token is up around 0.1% in the last 24 hours and sits nearly 96% off its all-time high. TRUMP hit a daily peak of $3.08 on Thursday afternoon, touching its highest price in five days, bu...
Mar 10, 2026
Markets
Trump Meme Coin Down 96% From Peak as President's Approval Ratings Sink
President Trump’s official Solana-based meme coin—Official Trump (TRUMP)—hit its lowest price early Tuesday since shortly after its launch, amid souring polling data on the U.S. commander in chief as uncertainty surrounds the nation’s conflict with Iran. The token is down around 1% on Tuesday at a recent price of $2.90, and has fallen more than 15% over the last week, even as crypto’s leaders like Bitcoin and Ethereum rebound to $70,137 and $2,041, respectively. TRUMP fell to $2.87 overnight,...
Feb 6, 2026
Markets
Official Trump Meme Coin, WLFI Lead Losses Following World Liberty Financial Probe
Official Trump (TRUMP) and World Liberty Financial (WLFI) have fallen 14.6% and 10.8% in the past 24 hours, as the cryptocurrency market continues to weather steep losses amid falling sentiment. TRUMP is now priced at $3.41, marking a 24.7% loss in a week, a 37.7% drop in a month, and a 95% collapse since the Trump-linked meme coin hit a record high of $37.43 in January of last year, per CoinGecko data. Meanwhile, World Liberty Financial’s governance and utility token, WLFI, has sunk to $0.111,...
Jan 19, 2026
Coins
Trump Meme Coin’s First Year Leaves Crypto Policy in Limbo
It was a Friday night bombshell that nobody saw coming. Three days before his second inauguration last January, President Donald Trump's social media accounts lit up with news of the launch of Official Trump (TRUMP), a Solana-based meme coin bearing his name and political brand. The token jumped to a $10 billion market cap within hours, reaching a peak of $73 and sending degen traders into a frenzy, triggering more than 8 million requests per minute that overwhelmed Phantom Wallet’s infrastruct...
Dec 20, 2025
Law and Order
Crypto Industry Must Make Progress Before Trump Leaves Office: Etherealize Co-Founder
Donald Trump has been branded a pro-crypto president, thanks to his administration’s passage of crypto legislation. However, some industry observers say his personal stake in the future of crypto—via companies the Trump family has backed—has stood in the way of progress, and threatens to cause further backlash once he leaves office. Danny Ryan, co-founder of institutional marketing firm Etherealize and a former Ethereum developer, told Decrypt recently that this threat of retaliation from a new...
Dec 10, 2025
Coins
Official Trump Crypto Game Revealed With $1 Million in Solana Meme Coin Rewards
A licensed Donald Trump-themed mobile crypto game will debut at the end of this year, according to a post Tuesday on X from the account behind the official Trump meme coin on the Solana blockchain. The project describes Trump Billionaires Club as “the first and only Trump mobile game for true Trump fans,” and said the game will offer players “a chance to get a share of $1 million in TRUMP coin rewards.” According to its website, the game plays as a “3D board game where every roll, deal, and deci...
Oct 29, 2025
Markets
President Trump's Solana Meme Coin Is Hot Again, Jumping 46% Amid 'Relief Rally'
President Trump’s official meme coin has rallied over the past week, climbing 46% to a $1.67 billion market capitalization. One analyst believes this could be the result of a “relief rally,” following Trump’s plethora of macro pressures appearing to ease. The Solana token has been on a downward trend since the crypto dinner held for the top TRUMP holders in May, hitting an all-time low market cap of nearly $1 billion on October 10. The low came after Trump threatened massive tariffs against Chin...
Oct 16, 2025
Business
Newsmax Reveals Bitcoin, Trump Meme Coin Treasury
Publicly traded media company Newsmax is creating a digital assets treasury centered on Bitcoin and President Donald Trump's meme coin, which trades as TRUMP on Solana. The company's board of directors approved the plan, which will see it acquire up to $5 million of the two assets in total over the next year, according to a company announcement on Thursday. “Bitcoin is fast becoming the gold standard of cryptocurrency, and we believe it would be an important company marker to add this asset to...
Sep 16, 2025
Law and Order
President Trump Alleges New York Times Harmed Meme Coin in $15 Billion Lawsuit
President Donald Trump has brought his meme coin into a prominent legal dispute, alleging in a new $15 billion defamation suit against the New York Times that the publication harmed the reputation of his multibillion-dollar Solana token project. The lawsuit, filed Monday in a federal court in Florida, claims that four Times reporters maliciously published false information about the president in multiple articles and a book, leading to “enormous” economic losses to the value of his brand, prope...
Aug 21, 2025
Markets
Trump-Backed World Liberty Gets Coinbase Approval With USD1 Stablecoin Listing
The USD1 stablecoin from World Liberty Financial—a crypto project backed by President Donald Trump and his sons—is now available for trading on Coinbase, the exchange announced on Thursday. America's biggest crypto exchange announced the listing in a Thursday post on X. Eric Trump, the president's son and World Liberty co-founder, then reposted it and said that more news related to the crypto project was coming "very soon." Decrypt reached out to WLF for comment but did not immediately receive...
Jun 24, 2025
Markets
President Trump Meme Coin Jumps as He Begs Israel Not to Break Ceasefire Deal
President Donald Trump’s official meme coin jumped 6% to a $1.8 billion market cap on Tuesday as he announced a ceasefire between Iran and Israel in the early hours of Tuesday. But that’s not been without its complications. The Israeli military’s chief of staff, Eyal Zamir, claimed that Iran immediately broke the ceasefire, according to The New York Times. Israel insisted that it would “respond with force,” which it did—all while Trump urged the nation not to break the ceasefire. Altcoins Surge...
Jun 20, 2025
Coins
TikTok Hits Back At Congressman's '$300 Million Bribe' Accusation Over Trump Meme Coin
Social media firm TikTok has pushed back against a Congressman's accusation that it had purchased TRUMP meme coins in order to "bribe" the U.S. president. “The Chinese owners of TikTok have announced they are buying ‘Trump Coins’ for $300 million,” Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA-32) tweeted Thursday, adding that, “Trump creates ‘Trump Coins’ at no cost, meaning this is just a $300 million bribe that goes right into his pocket.” The social media firm tweeted a rebuttal stating that, “Congressman...