In Trump crypto news today, the President’s family made $2.3Bn from four cryptocurrency ventures as of the end of April 2026 while putting up little to no capital of their own – and outside investors lost an equivalent $2.3 billion in the same projects.
That is the central finding of a Reuters investigation published on June 9, 2026, based on thousands of pages of corporate filings and interviews with more than a dozen academics and consultants, as well as 27 individual retail investors.
This report dropped as Bitcoin is currently trading at around $61,500, up +2.7% on the day, following a strong week that has seen the leading digital asset bounce from weekly lows of $58,400.
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“There’s nothing illegal, there’s nothing wrong with it”pic.twitter.com/AZZiDivB9z
— WallStreetBets (@wallstreetbets) July 2, 2026
How the Trumps Risked Almost Nothing
Startup costs for World Liberty Financial (WLFI), a decentralized finance protocol that sells governance tokens giving holders voting rights over the platform’s treasury and protocol decisions.
The TRUMP crypto memecoin project came in at under $1M in combined value, and possibly far less. Seoyoung Kim, associate professor of finance at Santa Clara University, said the outlay “could have been nothing if developers and advisers were paid in tokens rather than cash.”
For the two Nasdaq-listed ventures, ALT5 Sigma (now AI Financial Corp.) and American Bitcoin, a bitcoin treasury and mining company, Reuters found that Trump family share ownership was acquired at no monetary cost in either case.
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The WLFI Token Sale: $1.4Bn In, Mostly Out to the Trumps
Watching $WLFI
since I charted it in april, the chart has been screaming accumulation, from what I’ve been observing the past weeks its been revolving around $0.05 range to $0.064, 24hr volume is $26.4m (expect that to increase significantly as the market improves)the 200MA… pic.twitter.com/CB4FTIxlYL
— OG Crypto Boss💥 (@GibsoonCorp) July 2, 2026
World Liberty Financial raised $1.4Bn by selling 30 billion governance tokens. Under the family’s arrangement with WLFI, the Trumps are entitled to 75% of token sale proceeds, yielding approximately $987M from disclosed sales, including a $538M tranche sold to ALT5 Sigma, which purchased $717M worth of WLFI tokens in total and funneled more than $500M to the Trump family.
Reuters found the actual figure is likely higher. A filing World Liberty submitted in October 2025 to comply with European crypto-asset regulations disclosed that the company held 3 billion fewer tokens than it had publicly reported the prior month.
Two academics and two crypto consultants told Reuters those tokens were probably sold without public disclosure. Using a weighted average of token prices over the relevant period, Reuters calculated that those sales generated at least $460M more for the family, bringing total WLFI earnings to more than $1.4Bn.
Campbell Harvey, professor of finance at Duke University, reviewed the finding and said the token sale is large and that “it appears that the insiders were dumping,” adding that selling “so early in the life of the project as World Liberty has is unusual.”
World Liberty Financial spokesman David Wachsman responded that “WLFI does not validate third-party methodologies for valuing governance tokens or estimating aggregate investor positions.”
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TRUMP Crypto Memecoin and the Retail Investor Losses
The TRUMP memecoin project has not disclosed its revenue, but blockchain data analyzed by Reuters indicates approximately $1.2Bn in total revenue, with the Trump family receiving about $616M. Donald Trump Jr. lauded the family’s crypto ventures on January 19, 2025, the day before his father’s inauguration.
However, early investors in the TRUMP memecoin suffered significant losses, with prices peaking at $75.35 in January 2025 and plummeting by April 2026, resulting in over $700M in losses. WLFI token holders face roughly $674M in losses, as early buyers are unable to sell 80% of their holdings, which are now deemed worthless.
The situation raises concerns about potential crypto conflicts of interest, given Trump’s role in shaping US digital-asset policy while his family profits from these ventures.
Reuters notes that the Trump crypto strategy involves minimal risk for the Trumps while shifting the financial burden onto investors, prompting regulators and watchdogs to consider whether this poses a conflict for a sitting president.
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