The Entire Trump Family Enters the Crypto World: Is It a Wealth Myth or a Harvesting Trap?

On the 18th, Eastern Time, Trump unexpectedly announced on Twitter: " My brand new official Trump meme is here! It's time to celebrate everything we represent: victory! Join my very special Trump community."

The cryptocurrency world has seen a drastic shift with the emergence of $TRUMP, a token that has soared by 41,600% within two days of its launch. This development has not only redefined the market's perception of MEME coins but also sparked discussions on whether Trump's "crypto revolution" is a path to immense wealth or a harvesting trap in the making.

On the 18th, Eastern Time, Trump unexpectedly announced on Twitter: "My brand new official Trump meme is here! It's time to celebrate everything we represent: victory! Join my very special Trump community." Even his campaign financier, Elon Musk, expressed confusion and suspected that Trump's Twitter account may have been hacked. Later on, Trump's son stated that OFFICIAL TRUMP is "the hottest digital meme on Earth," although the Trump team has not made any comments regarding the token.

OFFICIAL TRUMP was issued on the Solana mainnet and managed early liquidity through Meteora. The launch price of the token was $0.18, which surged to a peak of $75.8 within two days, indicating a 421-fold increase. The token quickly entered the top 20 cryptocurrencies by global market capitalization, currently ranking 13th with a market cap of $11,552,782,436, surpassing a quarter of Doge's market cap and showing signs of catching up with Musk's Doge. At the same time, it drove a nearly 50% rebound in $SOL.

Even more surprisingly, two days later, Trump's wife, Melania Trump, also issued her own cryptocurrency and promoted it on her social media. The token, named $MELANIA, has already achieved a 256-fold increase.

Tokens launched by Trump's sons, such as Eric Frederick Trump's $Eric token and $BARRON, have also emerged, both achieving a hundredfold increase.

Collectively, the entire Trump family has now entered the crypto industry. This development, led by Trump himself, has brought about a new wave of attention and capital涌入 into the Web3 space. However, the decentralized world appears to be gradually becoming centralized, and the old money effect of celebrities is making the market even crazier, once again highlighting the weaknesses of human nature, where we tend to instinctively pursue surface-level wealth with very few taking the time to delve deeper and understand the essence of things.

According to Lookonchain data, a whale withdrew 61,205 SOL ($14.3 million) from OKX, purchasing 1.27 million tokens at an average price of $11.25, making a profit of about $11 million; another whale spent $8.5 million USDC, buying 1.03 million tokens at an average price of $8.28, making a profit of about $11.8 million.

Within 90 seconds after Trump announced the Truth Social token statement, a trader used $1.09 million USDC to purchase 57,000 $TRUMP tokens and turned $1.1 million into $70 million within just 4 hours, currently still holding 4.62 million $TRUMP tokens worth $67.5 million.

$Trump has indeed created many wealth myths, but can $Trump really develop sustainably? Currently, it does not seem so.

The total issuance of $Trump is 1 billion tokens, with early liquidity of 200 million tokens. According to official information, the remaining 800 million will be gradually released over the next three years (monthly unlocks). However, the biggest problem is that 80% of the total token supply is held by two entities: Trump's organization subsidiary CIC Digital LLC and the Delaware company Fight Fight Fight LLC registered on January 7.

A blockchain analyst named Conor tracked on-chain data and found that the Trump team has sold $500 million worth of $Trump tokens, and the flow of these tokens is basically sold to the market or used as unilateral liquidity. Whether the assets sold for cash or unilateral liquidity will be reallocated is currently unclear.

Key Addresses:

DEV Address: Holds 1.8%, distributed 800 million tokens to four holding addresses after minting 13 hours ago.

Address waiting to unlock: Holds 80%, likely corresponding to locked tokens: 2RH6rUTPBJ9rUDPpuV9b8z1YL56k1tYU6Uk5ZoaEFFSK

Liquidity injection address: Two addresses injected a total of 134 million TRUMP's unilateral liquidity.

Unclear purpose address: Received 30 million tokens but has not taken any action.

Currently, these five addresses hold a total of 86.6% of the tokens.

The Trump team has