特朗普推出自己的加密货币，一种名为 $TRUMP 的模因币

Fresh off President Donald Trump’s second inauguration a couple of days prior, last Friday saw the launch of his own cryptocurrency, a meme coin aptly named $TRUMP.

几天前，唐纳德·特朗普总统刚刚举行第二次就职典礼，上周五推出了他自己的加密货币，一种被恰当地命名为 $TRUMP 的模因硬币。

Amid the ceremonial fanfare, the coin’s value skyrocketed by over 300 percent over the weekend. As of Thursday, the market capitalization of $TRUMP is hovering around $7 billion with only 200 million of the 1 billion tokens yet released. The remaining 800 million tokens are owned by Fight Fight Fight and CIC Digital, an affiliate of the Trump Organization. At the coin’s current value, Trump has a total stake exceeding $30 billion, or over three times his suspected net worth of $7.5 to $10 billion, though that’s all on paper, of course.

在仪式的喧嚣声中，这枚硬币的价值在周末飙升了 300% 以上。截至周四，$TRUMP 的市值徘徊在 70 亿美元左右，10 亿枚代币中仅发行了 2 亿枚。剩余的 8 亿枚代币归 Fight Fight Fight 和特朗普集团旗下的 CIC Digital 所有。以该代币目前的价值计算，特朗普持有的总股份超过 300 亿美元，是他疑似净资产 7.5 至 100 亿美元的三倍多，当然，这只是纸面上的数字。

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Meme coins often disappear as quickly as they rise in value, frequently leaving hoodwinked investors—rather than, say, Trump—holding the bag. Perhaps that’s why $TRUMP’s website has a clear disclaimer declaring the coin an artwork.

迷因币往往随着价值的上涨而消失得很快，常常让受蒙蔽的投资者——而不是特朗普——承担责任。也许这就是为什么 $TRUMP 的网站有明确的免责声明，宣布该硬币是艺术品。

“TrumpMemes are intended to function as an expression of support for, and engagement with, the ideals and beliefs embodied by the symbol ‘$TRUMP’ and the associated artwork, and are not intended to be, or to be the subject of, an investment opportunity, investment contract, or investment of any type,” it reads.

“TrumpMemes 的目的是表达对‘$TRUMP’符号和相关艺术品所体现的理想和信念的支持和参与，而不是投资或投资的主题机会、投资合同或任何类型的投资，”它写道。

(A cryptocurrency is typically labeled a meme coin if it has no intrinsic function but originates from an internet meme, like DOGE coin. In contrast, the coin Ether is used to trade on the blockchain platform Ethereum, which allows users to build smart contracts, among a host of other applications.)

（如果加密货币没有内在功能，而是源自互联网模因，例如 DOGE 币，则通常被标记为模因币。相比之下，以太币用于在区块链平台以太坊上进行交易，该平台允许用户构建智能合约，以及许多其他应用程序。）

In a LinkedIn post on Tuesday, Georg Bak, a digital art advisor and co-founder of The Digital Art Mile art fair, noted the disclaimer and declared that Trump had issued “the most expensive artwork ever created in the world.” The meme coin, he went on, is valued far higher than Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi—the generally accepted highest valued artwork, which sold for $450 million in 2017. Because $TRUMP was classified as art by the issuer, Bak continued, it is therefore an “artwork co-owned by thousands of coin holders and can be regarded as a tokenized artwork.”

数字艺术顾问兼数字艺术英里艺术博览会联合创始人乔治·巴克 (Georg Bak) 在周二的 LinkedIn 帖子中指出了这一免责声明，并宣称特朗普发行了“世界上有史以来最昂贵的艺术品”。他接着说，模因币的价值远远高于列奥纳多·达·芬奇的《救世主》——这是公认的最高价值艺术品，该艺术品在 2017 年以 4.5 亿美元的价格售出。巴克继续说道，由于 $TRUMP 被发行人归类为艺术品，因此它是最有价值的。因此，“艺术品由数千名持币者共同拥有，可以被视为代币化的艺术品”。

“Each holder of the $TRUMP is a legit co-owner of the currently most valuable artwork in the world,” Bak stated. “It is almost grotesque that art is once again serving as a proxy for carrying out otherwise illegal activities in a clean manner. While most types of coins are under strict supervision, art and therefore all meme coins enjoy artistic freedom, a fundamental right of humanity.”

巴克表示：“特朗普美元的每个持有者都是目前世界上最有价值艺术品的合法共同所有者。” “艺术再次充当以干净的方式开展非法活动的代理人，这几乎是怪诞的。虽然大多数类型的硬币都受到严格监管，但艺术以及所有模因硬币都享有艺术自由，这是人类的一项基本权利。”

After seeing Bak’s post, ARTnews asked the advisor why Trump might have categorized the coin as art. Bak speculated that the decision likely has less to do with Trump’s secret desire to be an artist than the legal protections such a declaration can afford the issue.

看到巴克的帖子后，ARTnews 询问顾问为什么特朗普可能会将这枚硬币归类为艺术品。巴克推测，这一决定可能与特朗普成为一名艺术家的秘密愿望无关，而与此类声明所能提供的法律保护有关。

“Labeling [$TRUMP] as art can provide certain protections, avoid legal challenges, or redefine its purpose in ways that align with legal or regulatory frameworks,” Bak said. “One of the biggest legal challenges for cryptocurrencies and meme coins is being classified as a security under financial regulations like the Howey Test [a standard set by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1946]. If a coin is deemed a security, it must comply with strict regulations that require registration, disclosures, and compliance measures. By declaring a meme coin as art or as a cultural product, its creators can argue that it is not an investment vehicle but a collectible or a creative expression.”

“给[$特朗普]贴上艺术标签可以提供一定的保护，避免法律挑战，或者以符合法律或监管框架的方式重新定义其目的，”巴克说。 “加密货币和模因币面临的最大法律挑战之一是根据豪伊测试（美国最高法院于 1946 年制定的标准）等金融法规将其归类为证券。如果代币被视为证券，则必须遵守要求注册、披露和合规措施的严格法规。通过将模因硬币宣布为艺术品或文化产品，其创造者可以辩称，它不是一种投资工具，而是一种收藏品或创意表达。”

Andres Guadamuz, a reader in Intellectual Property Law at the University of Sussex, similarly told ARTnews that classifying a meme coin like $TRUMP as art “is usually a legal workaround, a clever ploy if you will.”

萨塞克斯大学知识产权法专业的读者安德烈斯·瓜达穆斯 (Andres Guadamuz) 也向 ARTnews 表示，将像 $TRUMP 这样的模因币归类为艺术品“通常是一种合法的解决方法，如果你愿意的话，这也是一个聪明的策略。”

“Some meme coins projects try to avoid being labeled as securities, so they slip in language describing their tokens as ‘art’ or ‘collectibles.’ That way, they can argue that they’re selling a digital artwork rather than offering an investment product,” Guadamuz said. “While regulators in the new administration may not come knocking, this ensures that projects can be future-proof. People can sell and trade art with practically no regulation, and this is easier to do because of NFTs—tokens as art have a precedent that was left mostly unregulated. But if you’re selling a token as an investment vehicle,

“一些模因币项目试图避免被贴上证券的标签，因此他们用语言将其代币描述为‘艺术品’或‘收藏品’。这样，他们就可以声称自己是在销售数字艺术品，而不是提供投资产品。”Guadamuz 说道。 “虽然新政府的监管机构可能不会来敲门，但这确保了项目能够面向未来。人们几乎可以在没有监管的情况下出售和交易艺术品，而这更容易做到，因为有了 NFT——艺术代币有一个基本不受监管的先例。但如果你将代币作为投资工具出售，