Donald Trump’s newly launched cryptocurrency surged on Monday to nearly $11 billion in market value as billions poured into trading just hours before the president-elect takes the oath of office.

President Donald Trump and the first lady released their own cryptocurrencies. Experts compare them to Beanie Babies and dogecoin.

Space X and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who Trump has appointed as co-lead in the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), stands as the richest person in the world with a fortune of $433.9 billion, per Forbes.

The Trump Meme website states that the Trump Organization owns 80 percent of the cryptocurrency, and it says they will slowly release more over the next three years while profiting from "trading revenue" generated by the sales. The site also includes a ...

Melania Trump launched a meme coin on the eve of her husband’s inauguration — causing his own new cryptocurrency to briefly tank amid a buying frenzy. The incoming first lady dropped news of the cryptocurrency — “$MELANIA” — on Sunday night — just days after her husband, President-elect Donald Trump, revealed his own newly created $TRUMP coin.

Trump's embrace of cryptocurrency could mark a change from the regulatory hammer that has fallen on crypto companies under the Biden administration.

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump released meme coins just days before he took the oath of office. A splashy pre-inaugural party was held at a property his company owns. And a Saudi-backed golf tournament is headed to a Trump club this spring.

President Donald Trump’s goodwill in the cryptocurrency industry has taken a hit after ... The sale of Trump meme coins was organized by CIC Digital, an affiliate of the Trump Organization. In promoting the meme coin, Trump told supporters to “Have ...

Donald Trump once called cryptocurrency a “scam.” Now ethics experts fear the president may be carrying out a rules-bending crypto scheme of his own by holding onto crypto assets while serving in the White House.

The back-and-forth created confusion and fear that will linger beyond the lifetime of the memo, nonprofit leaders said.

Coinbase Global Inc. announced Wednesday that Sinema was part of its global advisory council, along with Chris LaCivita, the co-campaign manager for President Donald Trump’s 2024 reelection. Bill Dudley, the former president of the New York Fed, and Luis Alberto Moreno, an international finance expert, are also joining the council.