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Trump made $1B on crypto, his buyers got crushed

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Trump made $1B on crypto, his buyers got crushed Scott Melker discusses President Trump's latest financial disclosures, which show he earned nearly $1 billion from crypto-related ventures, while many investors in Trump-branded crypto tokens have suffered huge losses…
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  • The Open USD announcement alone dropped Circle stock up to 17% in one day

    60% confidence
  • Trump made $196.9 million from the sale of his ownership interest in the USD1 stablecoin venture

    60% confidence
  • Citigroup does not believe crypto ETFs will see positive inflows at all for the next year

    60% confidence
  • The Trump token hit $74.24 the day after launch and is now down about 98%, with 80% of supply still held by insiders on a vesting schedule

    60% confidence
  • People who bought assets launched by the president have lost roughly 98%

    60% confidence
  • Stablecoin consortiums like Open USD have never really worked in the past

    60% confidence
  • Scott Melker is continuing to buy Bitcoin at a heavy rate because he believes a bottom is at or near

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  • Trump annihilated the anti-crypto regulatory army of the Biden/Gensler/Warren era, which is a huge net positive for the industry

    60% confidence
  • Taiwan's new crypto law includes prison terms of up to seven years for running an unlicensed exchange

    60% confidence
  • Trump made $65.6 million from selling part of his stake in World Liberty Financial

    60% confidence
  • In 2024, 99% of Circle's income came from holding treasuries

    60% confidence
  • Coinbase makes more money on USDC than Circle does

    60% confidence
  • Trump made almost a billion and a half dollars on crypto in 2025 according to his own 900-plus page disclosure

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  • Trump earned $511k from Ethereum validator staking rewards

    60% confidence
  • Melania Trump's NFT sales and collectibles business made $6 million

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  • As of May, the Trump Organization had made $2.29 billion total from crypto while investors had lost $2.28 billion

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  • Trump made $635.1 million in fees on the Trump meme coin alone in 2025

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  • Citigroup cut its year-end Bitcoin target from $112k to $82k and its Ether target from $3,175 to $2,240

    60% confidence
  • Trump's net effect on the crypto industry is roughly zero, with negatives and positives balancing out

    60% confidence
  • Trump made $236.3 million on World Liberty Financial token sales

    60% confidence
  • In 2024, 54% of all the money Circle made went to Coinbase, amounting to just under a billion dollars

    60% confidence

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