Trump’s meme token – how much money was earned on it?

Donald Trump’s representatives initially published a post about the launch of the TRUMP meme token on the social network Truth Social, after which the record was duplicated on Twitter. Many cryptocurrency users suspected hackers of what was happening, who may have hacked into the account and published the contract address of the token they created.

However, in reality, Trump’s team is really behind the release. A few hours later, the authenticity of the token was confirmed by major industry players like the Jupiter team, and then TRUMP was listed on major centralised exchanges like Binance.

One trader decided not to wait for confirmation and risked a million dollars. Within two minutes of Trump’s posting on Truth Social, the owner of this address exchanged 1.09 million USDC stablecoin tokens for 5.7 million TRUMP tokens.

Buying the TRUMP meme token within the first two minutes of its announcement

This was done through the Meteora trading platform, and the user also paid $85,000 in tips to the infrastructure company Jito. Thus, his transaction was added to the block before the others, and the investor himself received the best rate of execution of the transaction, analysts LookOnChain noted.

Shortly after the transaction, the tokens were transferred to another wallet with the name ff.sol. Next, the digital assets were split between multiple wallets.

A few hours later, the trader sold part of the tokens in exchange for stablecoins, thus fixing the received profit. Moreover, on some wallets, the steibles were used to reacquire Trump tokens, which were then sold again.

The trader got rid of 1.35 million TRUMP tokens in exchange for $3.65 million in stacks, thus increasing the amount of his initial investment several times. After that, he was left with 4.62 million TRUMP tokens.

Cryptocurrency trader

Exactly how much the investor has earned and will earn is hard to know, as the cryptocurrency has been divided between quite a few addresses, some of which may belong to other people. However, since the TRUMP exchange rate peaked at $73 on Sunday, the balance of the crypto was the equivalent of $337 million, which could bring the total value of the transaction to $340 million.

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Even if the trader didn’t wait for such a rise, he made at least $90 million anyway. Still, usually experienced players sell cryptoasset gradually as its price rises. Well, in general, a successful operation required serious initial capital along with the willingness to take risks and make quick decisions.

Trump’s meme token exchange rate

This morning, the meme token $TRUMP is valued at $60. Its market capitalisation exceeds the $12 billion mark, putting the coin in 21st place in the overall cryptocurrency ranking.

Donald Trump’s TRUMP meme token performance

Thus the token has grown in value by almost 1,300 per cent since Saturday, when the Coingecko platform recorded its low at $4.29. However, the asset was initially much cheaper than one dollar, which is proved by the transaction of an anonymous trader.

Maximum and minimum of Donald Trump’s meme token TRUMP rate

The behaviour of the asset, given its huge capitalization, can be safely called one of the most successful launches in history. Still, usually memes bring tokens shortly after their creation through platforms like pump-fun, when their capitalisation amounts to millions or tens of millions of dollars.

But here, the token of the newly elected president has received billions of dollars of capitalisation – moreover, on the weekend, when traders are usually not so active. This could indicate that the asset could be among the most popular projects in the current crypto bullrun.

What caused Solana SOL to rise

On Sunday, the Solana cryptocurrency also set a record at $295. Such a thing was predictable, as Trump’s meme token was originally launched just on this network.

15-minute chart of the Solana SOL cryptocurrency exchange rate

And since the asset is also traded on decentralised exchanges, traders need a certain amount of SOL to pay transaction fees. That is, the meme-token phenomenon of the newly elected US president has seriously affected the native blockchain cryptocurrency on which it was launched.

According to analysts, the launch of TRUMP was a definite blow for Etherium. The network still remains the largest blockchain in terms of blocked funds across various DeFi protocols and platforms due to its pioneering role in handling decentralised applications.

However, barring second-tier solutions like Optimism and Base, this network is still characterised by low bandwidth and sometimes high fees. Therefore, Trump’s team decided to reach out to Solana, which in this cycle of market growth has proven to be home to the largest meme tokens and a promising trend of cryptoassets related to artificial intelligence. In fact, the SOL coin has been endorsed by the renewed US leadership, while the network at its core has successfully handled the influx of new traders and investors.

Newly elected US President Donald Trump

Separately, we note that many other cryptocurrencies issued a noticeable drop over the weekend. This is apparently due to coin sales by traders looking to free up funds to link to the Trump meme token. In other words, the TRUMP token is now sucking liquidity from the entire coin market.


The launch of TRUMP was one of the crypto industry's big news in 2025. The event hints that the coin sphere may now be globally recognised at all levels, and the need for a Bitcoin reserve for individual countries will not even be questioned further. So the blockchain sphere still retains the title of the biggest trend in the financial markets.
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