
Our weekly updates are put together by folks deep in the crypto scene, giving you a clear picture of what's happening without overwhelming you.

To Watch This Week
AIRDROPS + ALPHAMar 31, 2025
Law and Order
Trump's Crypto Dealings Are Making Regulation 'More Complicated': House Financial Services Chair
House Financial Services Committee Chair French Hill (R-AR) said Monday that the personal cryptocurrency dealings of President Donald Trump and his family have made drafting legislation for the novel sector “more complicated,” in a rare rebuke of the president’s personal activities by a key member of congressional Republican leadership. Hill specifically named the president’s meme coin and stablecoin projects as two endeavors that have negatively impacted the work of lawmakers racing to create r...
Mar 24, 2025
Markets
Trump Says His Meme Coin is 'Greatest of Them All,' Price Soars
President Donald Trump endorsed the Official Trump (TRUMP) token on social media Sunday morning, directly promoting the Solana-based meme coin in which the President’s affiliated companies hold an 80% ownership stake. "I LOVE $TRUMP—SO COOL!!! The Greatest of them all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Trump posted on TruthSocial at 10:33 AM ET, coinciding with a price surge that saw the token briefly top $12.25 before experiencing significant volatility. The asset is up 7.7% on the day to $11.67, CoinGecko data s...
Mar 17, 2025
Business
Trump, Associates Net $390 Million Payday From World Liberty Token Sale
President Donald Trump, and other principals of DT Marks DEFI LLC, have already netted roughly $390 million in revenue from their Ethereum-based decentralized finance project—and that’s just for promoting it. On Monday, World Liberty Financial announced it had completed its second round of token sales. All in all, the project has brought in $550 million from two rounds of sales of WLFI, its native governance token, according to the company’s own accounting. Though Trump himself is technically...
Mar 12, 2025
Coins
Dogecoin, SHIB and PEPE Bounce as Official Trump Meme Coin Sees Middling Gains
It has been a brutal market in recent weeks. But this morning, most major meme coins have finally seen a much welcomed bounce. That said, the Official Trump (TRUMP) token lags behind its meme coin competitors, posting middling gains comparatively, while President Donald Trump’s trade war rages on. Sector leaders Dogecoin (DOGE), Shiba Inu (SHIB), and Pepe (PEPE) have rebounded 9.2%, 7.9%, and 16.3% respectively. Although the fourth largest meme coin by market capitalization, Official Trump (TRUM...
Feb 28, 2025
NFTs
Into the MAGAverse? Trump Org Files Trademarks for Metaverse, NFT Platforms
It appears that the Trumps have yet to find a corner of crypto they don’t like. This week, the Trump Organization filed a slew of trademarks indicating the company is mulling expansion into a digital sector that’s struggled for years: the metaverse. The dozens of proposed new protections for the signature “Trump” mark include “downloadable virtual reality game software featuring crypto tokens for use in online virtual worlds,” and several categories of NFT-backed virtual goods available for sal...
Feb 27, 2025
Law and Order
Degens, Rejoice: Meme Coins Are Not Securities, Says SEC
Wall Street's top regulator has said that meme coins are not securities. In a Thursday statement, the Securities and Exchange Commission said that such assets typically would not be considered securities based on the regulator's current interpretation of the Howey test. Earlier this month, the SEC's new crypto task force boss said that meme coins were unlikely to fall under the watchdog's jurisdiction. "It is the division’s view that transactions in the types of meme coins described in this sta...
Feb 21, 2025
Law and Order
Florida Woman Accused of $850K Trump Solana Meme Coin Theft, Faces Deportation
A South Florida woman could face deportation after allegedly stealing over $850,000 worth of crypto from her ex-boyfriend. Maissa Jebali, 22, is accused of taking the substantial sum of Donald Trump's official Solana meme coin (TRUMP), from Anthony Bravo, a Miami man she had been dating for several months, according to a Miami Police Department affidavit. Following a tense squabble on Bravo's yacht, he discovered the alleged theft when he woke from a nap and checked his crypto accounts, the comp...
Feb 19, 2025
DeFi
More Than Luck: How the $100 Million Trump Meme Coin Whale Got the Inside Scoop
The identity of the suspiciously well-timed trader who turned $1 million worth of Solana (SOL) into over $116 million by jumping on President Donald Trump’s meme coin launch last month has been unmasked—and new details have surfaced as to how they were able to get in on the token so incredibly quickly. Hint: it wasn’t luck. According to analysis by the on-chain research firm Bubblemaps, the trader in question has been identified as Naseem—a notorious, pseudonymous crypto investor and hacker with...
Feb 11, 2025
Business
How Ripple, Novogratz and MoonPay Helped Trump's Solana Meme Coin Succeed
MoonPay, a crypto payments company, secured a crucial $160 million in combined loans from Galaxy Digital and Ripple to sustain the surging demand and purchases of President Donald Trump’s official Solana meme coin, TRUMP, during the weekend of its launch. The trio's collaboration, which was detailed by the MoonPay President Keith Grossman on the ”When Shift Happens” podcast, required MoonPay CEO Ivan Soto-Wright to “sign away his life” and the company to “promise” it had no liens on its reserve...
Feb 11, 2025
Law and Order
Meme Coins Like Solana's TRUMP Probably Not Under SEC Jurisdiction: Hester Peirce
The head of the Securities and Exchange Commission's new crypto task force has said that meme coins are unlikely to fall under the watchdog's jurisdiction. In an interview with Bloomberg on Tuesday, SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce was asked about President Donald Trump and his wife's official meme coins, TRUMP and MELANIA, and whether such cryptocurrencies would fall under the agency's jurisdiction. The newly appointed boss of the SEC's crypto task force said such assets probably do not. Preside...
Feb 10, 2025
Markets
Trump Solana Meme Coin Sinks Lower as Bitcoin and Dogecoin Hold Steady
President Donald Trump’s official Solana meme coin–TRUMP–has reached a price not seen since just hours after its launch, as trading volumes of the token slide to new lows. The President’s meme coin dipped to $14.86 late Sunday, marking the lowest price notched by CoinGecko since early on January 18, just hours after the token was launched by Trump a couple hours ahead of his inauguration. TRUMP is down 2.6% in the last 24 hours while other major crypto assets like Bitcoin and Dogecoin have rema...
Feb 5, 2025
Markets
Solana Meme Coins TRUMP, VINE See Double Digit Gains in Market Lull
None of the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market cap have made significant moves over the past 24 hours, according to CoinGecko. However, in meme land, tokens like TRUMP, MELANIA, and a new coin called FARTBOY have made double digit moves upwards. Official Trump (TRUMP), a token endorsed by the U.S. President, has jumped 12.4% over the past 24 hours—his wife’s official token Melania Meme (MELANIA) is also up nearly 2%. This comes the morning after Donald Trump met with Israeli Prime Minister, Benja...
Jan 30, 2025
Markets
Trump Solana Meme Coin Trading Volume Has Collapsed Since Inauguration Day
President Donald Trump’s meme coin drop on Solana was the biggest thing in crypto just under two weeks ago, but both the price and daily trading volume tallies have fallen substantially in recent days. And among remaining Official Trump (TRUMP) holders, it appears some may have grown tired of “winning.” Despite listings from popular trading venues like Robinhood, Binance, and Coinbase, TRUMP’s trading volume has been on the decline. The meme coin saw $36 billion worth of trading volume alongside...
Jan 30, 2025
Business
Official Donald Trump Solana Meme Coin Can Now Be Used to Buy Presidential Merch
Websites selling official Donald Trump-themed merchandise have begun accepting Official Trump (TRUMP) payments. Customers can use the president's official Solana-based meme coin to purchase Trump-inspired wares such as watches, perfumes and sneakers. The TRUMP payments are processed through Solana Pay, a free-to-use payments framework built on the Solana network. The meme coin holders can purchase merchandise with their tokens at GetTrumpWatches.com, GetTrumpFragrances.com and GetTrumpSneakers.c...
Jan 24, 2025
Long Reads
Is Donald Trump’s Meme Coin Legal? Limits of Presidential Power and Norms Are Being Tested, Experts Say
It’s been less than a week since President Donald Trump launched his own meme coin on the eve of his inauguration—and yet, in crypto, it’s felt like half a lifetime. Though he’d embraced crypto in numerous ways, Trump—arguably the most famous person on Earth—suddenly shilling his own meme coin, while ascending to (arguably) the most powerful position on the planet, broke a few brains and fried several more. That the president may have just enriched himself to the tune of several billion dollar...



