Donald Trump has finally entered the crypto world with a new Solana-based memecoin called “Official Trump” ($TRUMP). The coin already created ripples with its massive price surge on launch itself and reached a market value of $4 billion.
Some people are excited about it, while others are skeptical, thinking that this is just another “pump and dump.” Which, in short, is a scheme in which the price surges and then plummets in equal measure. The question here is, Will $TRUMP memecoin become a buy the rumor, sell the news?
One of the major things to know about $TRUMP is the fact that 80% of its total supply, which is about 1 billion coins, are locked up and will be gradually unlocked within the next three years.
That leaves only 200 million tokens currently available in trading. Despite that, the market cap for this particular coin surged to over $4 billion. At $3 billion volumes of trade, with the price spiking, traders are watching out for this memecoin as the launch came just 2 days to Trump’s inauguration. Many are worried whether the hype will continue or fall after the event.
Crypto experts fear that $TRUMP could drop in price at any moment. This prediction is based on the way other political memecoins performed, such as PolitiFi, which lost around 60% of its value during election season. And now, with the inauguration just 2 days away, traders are fearful that the token $TRUMP could be no different.
Trump has shown interest in cryptocurrency a few times in the past. He has been very supportive of crypto, launching multiple NFT collections between 2022 and 2024. Furthermore, he supported a DeFi platform known as World Liberty Financial ($WLFI).
A popular software engineer who goes by the tag “Cygaar” on X with over 117,000 followers pointed out that the $TRUMP website shares many similarities with the sites used to promote Trump’s NFTs. The coin is tied to CIC Digital, which is the same company involved with licensing Trump’s NFTs.
With all the hype surrounding $TRUMP, it is hard to say whether the coin will rise or fall in the next few months. Traders will have to decide if they’re ready to take the risk.
