The team behind President Donald Trump’s crypto operations is on an aggressive accumulation spree of crypto assets before and during the 2025 inauguration ceremony.
According to blockchain intelligence and “de-anonymizing” platform Arkham, World Liberty Financial (WLFI) – the Trump family’s crypto project – bought over $50 million worth of cryptocurrencies in the hours leading up to the new President being sworn in.
-->Trump’s purchases include blockchain oracle service Chainlink (LINK), lending platform Aave, Justin Sun’s TRON (TRX), synthetic dollar protocol Ethena (ENA), top smart contract Ethereum (ETH) and the Ethereum-based Bitcoin Wrapped BTC (WBTC).
“TRUMP’S WORLD LIBERTY FI BUYING $50M+ OF CRYPTO RIGHT NOW
In the past hour or so, Donald Trump’s project World Liberty Fi has purchased:
$4.7M of LINK
$4.7M of AAVE
$4.7M of TRX
$4.7M of ENA
3x $4.7M of WBTC
4x $4.7M of ETH
How much more will they buy?”
Source: Arkham/XAnd during the precise moments that Trump was being sworn in by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Arkham reported that World Liberty Financial purchased $4.69 million worth of WBTC.
“DONALD TRUMP IS NOW 47TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
THE INSTANT HE WAS SWORN IN, TRUMP’S PROJECT WORLD LIBERTY FI BOUGHT $4.7 MILLION USD OF BITCOIN”
At time of writing, according to Arkham’s data, World Liberty Financial holds $329 million worth of crypto assets. At the same time, Donald Trump’s personal wallet is holding about $9.6 million worth of crypto, and his official memecoin TRUMP has a fully diluted valuation (FDV) of over $44 billion, 80 of which is controlled by his team’s wallets.
First Lady Melania Trump also launched her own memecoin which is valued at over $6 billion.
