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US President Donald Trump and his family earned more than $1 billion in pre-tax profits from their cryptocurrency ventures over the past year, the Financial Times reported. That $1 billion reflects only realized profits, indicating that after gains on their crypto holdings from rising prices are factored in, the family likely earned much more, the FT’s story indicated. Most of the profits came from the DeFi platform World Liberty Financial and its USD1 stablecoin, the American Bitcoin mining firm, and sale of the TRUMP and MELANIA meme coins, the FT said. The TRUMP and MELANIA meme coins generated around $427 million in revenue, while WLFI token sales brought in about $550 million, the FT said. It added that World Liberty Financial’s USD1 stablecoin has generated $2.71 billion. When the Financial Times approached Eric Trump, one of the President’s sons, to ask whether the $1 billion calculation in pre-tax profits was correct, he said that the true figure was ...

President Donald Trump’s on-chain, publicly attributed cryptocurrency holdings staged a rare recovery in the third quarter of 2025, rising 36.6% in value after a brutal start to the year. Between July 1 and September 30, the value of Trump’s wallet increased from $2.27 million to $3.10 million, a paper gain of roughly $823,000, according to Analysis by Finbold research in its Q3 2025 Cryptocurrency Market Report.  Even after the rebound, the wallet remains down 69.5% year-to-date compared with January 1. The improvement in Q3 is best understood in the context of earlier losses: in the first quarter, Trump’s holdings collapsed from $10.16 million to just $1.96 million, an 80.7% drawdown. By the end of H1, the portfolio had stabilized around $2.2 million, still down more than three-quarters from its January levels. Why Trump’s portfolio went up in Q3 Two forces explain the uptick, and neither looks like classic “buying the dip.” First, Trump’s wallet ha...

In a historic milestone for the cryptocurrency market, all Bitcoin (BTC) holders have achieved profitability (or at least broken even), with no investors currently experiencing losses as the digital asset maintains its remarkable 2025 rally. Specifically, the latest on-chain data from crypto on-chain analytics platform IntoTheBlock reveals that 100% of Bitcoin holders are either in profit.  Bitcoin holders’ profit share data. Source: IntoTheBlock The data further reveals the composition of Bitcoin’s holder base, with 76% of wallets having maintained their positions for over a year, 20% of holders between one and twelve months, and just 4% representing recent market entrants. Bitcoin holders time share . Source: IntoTheBlock This, in turn, indicates that the majority of current holders entered their positions at lower price levels, particularly those who accumulated Bitcoin below the $50,000 level throughout 2023 and early 2024.  Bitcoin price analysis...