{"id":89981,"date":"2025-10-16T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=89981"},"modified":"2025-10-16T18:00:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T15:00:21","slug":"trump-family-amasses-over-1-billion-from-cryptocurrency-ventures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/trump-family-amasses-over-1-billion-from-cryptocurrency-ventures\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Family Amasses Over $1 Billion from Cryptocurrency Ventures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The family of U.S. President Donald Trump has earned over $1 billion from cryptocurrency projects, according to an investigation by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/2ea2b35b-e009-42ed-b4d3-6b21aa9b2a13\">Financial Times<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>This figure does not account for tax deductions. Eric Trump, the politician&#8217;s son, confirmed to the publication that the actual profit is &#8220;likely much higher.&#8221; <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Trump&#8217;s Crypto Empire <\/h2>\n<p>The centerpiece of Trump&#8217;s crypto empire is the <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-decentralised-finance-defi\">DeFi<\/a> platform <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/trumps-sons-announce-ambitious-defi-venture\">World Liberty Financial<\/a> (WLFI), launched by his sons. On the platform&#8217;s website, the U.S. President is listed as an &#8220;honorary co-founder.&#8221; Through two funding rounds, the project <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/world-liberty-financial-raises-590-million-through-dual-token-sales\">raised<\/a> $590 million in investments. <\/p>\n<p>In June, it <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/donald-trump-earns-over-57-million-from-world-liberty-financial-tokens\">was revealed<\/a> that the head of the United States earned over $57 million from selling WLFI tokens. His family&#8217;s stake in the project reached $5 billion. According to Financial Times estimates, World Liberty Financial has generated at least $550 million for Trump since the beginning of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The President also gained significant profits from <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-to-know-about-donald-trumps-memecoin-surge-supply-and-industry-impact\">meme coins TRUMP and MELANIA<\/a>, totaling $427 million. However, the value of both coins has since plummeted by more than 90% from their historical peaks. <\/p>\n<p>The WLFI-issued <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/world-liberty-financial-to-launch-usd-stablecoin\">stablecoin<\/a> USD1 enriched the Trump family by $42 million. The asset ranks fifth in market capitalization among &#8220;stablecoins,&#8221; with a figure exceeding $2.7 billion. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-6c725074dae32a3c-7019196244764390-1024x426.png\" alt=\"image\" class=\"wp-image-267676\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-6c725074dae32a3c-7019196244764390-1024x426.png 1024w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-6c725074dae32a3c-7019196244764390-300x125.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-6c725074dae32a3c-7019196244764390-768x320.png 768w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-6c725074dae32a3c-7019196244764390-1536x639.png 1536w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-6c725074dae32a3c-7019196244764390.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/categories\/stablecoins\">CoinGecko<\/a>. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The President&#8217;s personal stake in the parent company of Truth Social \u2014 Trump Media &#038; Technology Group \u2014 is valued at $1.9 billion. The firm actively <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/trump-media-acquires-684-million-cro-tokens\">invests<\/a> in cryptocurrencies and <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/truth-social-files-for-crypto-blue-chip-etf\">filed<\/a> for registration of a <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-a-cryptocurrency-etf\">cryptocurrency blue-chip ETF<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>On October 15, the U.S. approved the launch of a new crypto bank, Erebor, reportedly linked to the U.S. President. It was founded by the politician&#8217;s friends, including billionaire Peter Thiel. The organization plans to work with stablecoins, reports the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/202d68bd-629e-42da-a938-c612bc839bdf\">Financial Times<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>In September, the politician <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/trump-sues-nyt-over-alleged-attacks-on-his-meme-coin\">sued<\/a> The New York Times and book publisher Penguin Random House over attacks on his meme coin. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The family of U.S. President Donald Trump has earned over $1 billion from cryptocurrency projects, according to an investigation by the Financial Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"This figure does not account for tax deductions.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[991,26,1770],"class_list":["post-89981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-donald-trump","tag-usa","tag-world-liberty-financial-wlfi"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"240","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"This figure does not account for tax deductions.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89983,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89981\/revisions\/89983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}