专家称，唐纳德和梅拉尼娅·特朗普的模因硬币体现了加密货币的“狂野西部”

拉维·萨拉西（Ravi Sarathy）表示，与其他数字资产不同，模因币“很大程度上是投机性的”，“没有太多商业目的”，不能用于去中心化金融安排，也不能充当价值储存手段。

Both Donald and Melania Trump are dipping more than just a toe in the world of so-called “meme” coins: the pair recently launched their own coins, which together have amassed a multi-billion-dollar market capitalization.

唐纳德·特朗普和梅拉尼娅·特朗普都不仅仅是涉足所谓的“模因”代币世界：两人最近推出了自己的代币，这些代币的市值合计已达到数十亿美元。

A meme coin is a type of cryptocurrency that is based in, or gets its name from, a meme or cultural trend.

模因币是一种基于模因或文化趋势或得名于模因或文化趋势的加密货币。

The meme coin associated with Donald Trump, $TRUMP, launched on Friday, skyrocketed in value over the weekend, then fell to $40 after Melania Trump dropped her digital coin, $MELANIA. The coin was trading around $60 early Monday. Both of the coins are now trading on the Solana blockchain.

与唐纳德·特朗普 (Donald Trump) 相关的模因币 $TRUMP 于周五推出，周末价格飙升，然后在梅拉尼娅·特朗普 (Melania Trump) 放弃她的数字币 $MELANIA 后跌至 40 美元。周一早些时候，该代币的交易价格约为 60 美元。这两种代币现在都在 Solana 区块链上进行交易。

Primarily speculative

主要是投机性的

Ravi Sarathy, a professor of international business and strategy at Northeastern University, explains that meme coins differ from other digital assets in several ways. He says they are primarily speculative in nature, lack significant business utility, cannot be utilized in decentralized finance (DeFi) applications, and generally don’t act as stores of value.

东北大学国际商业与战略教授拉维·萨拉西 (Ravi Sarathy) 解释说，模因币在几个方面与其他数字资产不同。他表示，它们本质上主要是投机性的，缺乏重要的商业效用，不能用于去中心化金融（DeFi）应用，而且通常不充当价值储存手段。

“They’re part of the wild west of cryptocurrencies,” he says. “This is all brand new.”

“它们是加密货币狂野西部的一部分，”他说。 “这都是全新的。”

Though the meme coins bear the names of the president and first lady and are being pushed by the pair on social media, they are “are not intended to be, or to be the subject of, an investment opportunity, investment contract, or security of any type,” a disclaimer on the website for the meme coin associated with Melania Trump says.

尽管模因硬币上印有总统和第一夫人的名字，并且是由两人在社交媒体上推广的，但它们“无意成为投资机会、投资合同或投资安全的主题”。任何类型，”网站上与梅拉尼娅特朗普相关的模因硬币的免责声明说。

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Further, the website states that the coin “is not political and has nothing to do with any political campaign or any political office or governmental agency.”

此外，该网站还指出，该硬币“不具有政治性，与任何政治运动或任何政治办公室或政府机构无关”。

Still, Sarathy says that it’s odd to see an incoming president promoting a meme coin as he takes the oath of office.

尽管如此，萨拉西表示，看到一位即将上任的总统在宣誓就职时推销模因币还是很奇怪的。

“People who wish to curry favor with President Trump might buy his coins because if they buy his coin, the demand goes up; and if the demand goes up, the price might follow,” Sarathy says.

“那些想要讨好特朗普总统的人可能会购买他的硬币，因为如果他们购买他的硬币，需求就会增加；如果需求上升，价格可能会随之上升，”萨拉西说。

Early ‘meme’ coins

早期的“模因”硬币

Far from the first joke currencies, meme coins have been around since the beginning of the crypto industry, with the most famous example being Dogecoin. Dogecoin began as a joke and features a dog as its mascot.

模因币远非第一个笑话货币，自加密行业诞生以来就一直存在，最著名的例子是狗狗币。狗狗币最初只是一个笑话，并以狗为吉祥物。

Meme coins tend to appeal to investors with an appetite for short-term speculation, though Sarathy notes that collectors have also taken an interest in them.

Meme 硬币往往会吸引有短期投机兴趣的投资者，但萨拉西指出，收藏家也对它们感兴趣。

“I’d say most of these purchases were speculative,” Sarathy says of the Trumps’ meme coins, “and those speculators are perhaps now dumping the coin because there are no quick gains to be made.”

“我想说，这些购买中的大部分都是投机性的，”萨拉西在谈到特朗普家族的模因币时说道，“那些投机者现在可能正在抛售这些代币，因为没有快速的收益。”