MELANIA rugs TRUMP, rearranges CoinMarketCap homepage
While busy sipping champagne at pre-inauguration galas, US President-Elect Donald Trump and incoming First Lady Melania Trump rearranged the homepages of crypto’s most trafficked websites: CoinMarketCap and CoinGecko. Indeed, despite no on-stage announcements and social media-only promotion, the couple’s newly-launched memecoins, TRUMP and MELANIA, rocketed up the industry’s leaderboards. Many gala attendees had paid tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars to attend the in-person events and received no better information than anyone watching X at home. Around 9pm New York time on Saturday, Trump launched TRUMP on Solana’s blockchain. Admitting that 80% of the supply was allocated to insiders, purchasers were invited to buy via Moonshot, a fiat-onramp and wallet provider. Centralized exchange listings proliferated immediately. Debuting below $1 for a few minutes, TRUMP soon rallied for four uninterrupted hours and by 6am the following morning was trading north of ...