Nearly a million investors lost a total of $3.8 billion on Trump crypto coin: NYT
Nansen said 988,905 buyers lost $3.81 billion as the token fell 97%, while early entrants captured most of the gains.
- On Saturday, cryptocurrency analytics firm Nansen reported that nearly 1 million people lost more than $3.8 billion investing in President Donald Trump's meme coin through the end of June.
- Launched on the Solana blockchain in January 2025, the $TRUMP token features a structure where Trump earns royalties on every trade, yielding a $636 million payout per his financial disclosure.
- Trading at $1.76 as of Friday, the coin is down 97 percent from its peak of $75.35, a decline that reflects "a small number of early buyers capturing enormous gains while the broad retail majority absorbed the losses," Nansen found.
- Beyond the meme coin, Trump's broader crypto empire—including World Liberty Financial—generated at least $1.4 billion in 2025 income, though the venture faced controversy after pledging 5 billion tokens to borrow $75 million.
- Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has proposed banning elected officials and their spouses from issuing or promoting crypto tokens, as the sector faces a 2026 slump with more than $600 million stolen from decentralized finance protocols.
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The updated account of Trump supporters who have become cryptocurrencies investors is already available. And for them, the overall results are remarkably bad. Almost a million people who bought the cryptocurrencies created by President Trump lost money until the end of June, according to a report from the Nansen cryptocurrencies analysis firm. Their losses amount to a total of 3,810 million dollars. The evaluation of the analysis firm was calcul…
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