Original author: Zhou Zhou, Foresight News
US President Trump issued the official Presidential Coin TRUMP. In less than two days, its market value peaked at over $80 billion.
This incident will undoubtedly become an important event that goes down in history. For both crypto practitioners and bystanders, this Trump coin issuance incident will also be a good opportunity to iterate and update the cognition of the crypto industry.
As a participant and observer, I witnessed the entire process of the “Presidential Coin” outbreak from 10:50 a.m. on January 18 (when the TRUMP token was worth about $3 billion) to the end of the phased observation on the evening of January 19 (when the TRUMP token was worth $80 billion). I also had a lot of discussions with other crypto practitioners. To this end, I tried to summarize and record these observations and discussions.
Presidential Cryptocurrency Course Lesson 1: Opportunities Are on the Chain
If you don’t play with DEX (decentralized exchange) products such as Phantom and Jupiter, you will most likely miss the opportunity of TRUMP. If you don’t have enough funds on the chain, you will most likely not get a high enough return from this event.
Trumps coin issuance event has become the most iconic turning point, which indicates an irreversible trend: the center of cryptocurrency is accelerating the transfer from CEX (centralized exchange) to DEX (decentralized exchange).
Within a day and a half after the TRUMP token was launched, the market value of TRUMP reached 50 billion US dollars without any large centralized exchange listing the token. Data shows that in January 2024, the trading volume of DEX accounted for only 9.3% of CEX, while in January 2025, this figure rose to 17.6%. These data show that DEX is replacing CEX as the most important gathering place for cryptocurrency players.
In addition, the performance of the decentralized contract exchange Hypeliquid also surpassed a number of centralized exchanges. Hypeliquid is currently the first exchange to launch the TRUMP contract. It launched the TRUMP contract at around 13:00 on January 18, and it took only three hours to launch the contract. At this time, the market value of TRUMP was about 10 billion US dollars (the market value reached a maximum of 80 billion US dollars on the second day of launch). The contract of the Presidents Wife Coin MELANIA was launched at around 10 am on January 20, and the contract deployment of the hot token was completed in less than 5 hours.
Essential crypto products: Phantom, Jupiter, Uniswap
Lesson 2 of the Presidential Encryption Course: The only way to defeat martial arts in the world is to be fast
The presidential coin TRUMP token was launched at around 10:00 on January 18, with a launch price of about $0.18. By the evening of January 19, TRUMP reached a high of $80. During this period, the price increased by more than 400 times.
During this period of time, you need to be quick to discover and make decisions in order to get lower chips.
The best traders buy TRUMP before 10:30, such as KOLs such as 0x Sun, Daewoo, and Yuyue. Most of them have a common feature, which is the habit of monitoring smart money on the chain. The habit of monitoring wallets on the chain allows them to find opportunities as quickly as possible. To pay attention to smart money on the chain in real time, you need to use products such as GMGN, Debot, and Vector. Crypto practitioners who understand technology will write a set of codes to monitor the addresses of smart money on the chain.
Discovering opportunities is only the first step; making decisions is the second.
In this Trump coin issuance event, the two platforms that need the most attention are: Twitter and moonshot. They are important reference platforms for many crypto practitioners to decide whether to buy TRUMP. Trumps official Twitter posted at 10:44, which represents the authenticity of the event. The price of moonshots online token is 1.21 U, which further verifies the authenticity and importance of the event. This is also the time window for most people to seize this opportunity.
Essential crypto products: GMGN, Vector, Debot, Twitter, moonshot.
Lesson 3 of the Presidential Cryptocurrency Course: Cognition determines position, tools determine speed
Knowledge determines the position. Some people buy early, but buy less and sell even earlier; some people buy late, but have more funds on the chain, or use cross-chain products and dare to hold a large position. These ultimately determine the final result.
When TRUMPs market value was $5 billion, some people doubted the authenticity of this matter, but some people have already determined that its market value will exceed Dogecoins market value of $60 billion. Some people think that the funds on the chain cannot afford $60 billion of new tokens in two days, and some people have already understood the huge difference between the market value of TRUMP tokens and FDV.
If there is not enough Sol on the chain, and you don’t use cross-chain products such as UnivesalX to convert ETH into SOL, then you will most likely miss out on large profits; if you don’t realize that TRUMP will surpass DOGE, then you will most likely miss out on the highest increase; if you don’t see that TRUMP is sucking the blood of all other cryptocurrencies, then you will most likely miss out on the highest increase; if you don’t see the huge difference between FDV and market value, then you will most likely miss out on the highest increase; if you don’t see the importance and degree of breakthrough of Trump’s coin issuance, and don’t realize the degree of global consensus on the US president, then you will most likely miss out on the highest increase; if you regard the TRUMP token as an ordinary meme, you will also miss out on the biggest increase... Tools determine the speed of asset flow, and cognition determines positions.
Essential crypto products: UniversalX, GMGN, Coinmarketcap
Presidential Cryptocurrency Course Lesson 4: The Meaning of Memes
After Trump issued the currency, many crypto celebrities denounced Trump for abusing his power for personal gain and that the meme only had PVP attributes and no actual value.
However, there seems to be no fairer way to issue assets than meme. When large centralized cryptocurrency exchanges are plagued by high listing fees, insider information, and contract plugging, meme is the only fair way to issue assets; when some large public chains have more and more marketing costs of tens of millions of dollars a year, complex interest groups, and higher and higher barriers to entry for emerging entrepreneurs, meme is the only relatively fair asset that can reassure all participants.
Before the AI Agent narrative, memes seemed to have no valuable application scenarios. However, after the AI Agent narrative appeared, people found that memes were just a form of technical products. How to use them depends on people, not the fault of the memes themselves. When AI Agents encountered memes, many practitioners also found that memes can also promote many interesting things.
Meme isnt that good, but the old world is worse.
Essential crypto products: Pump.fun, Clanker, Virtuals, ai16z
Last words
US President Trumps issuance of meme coins is an unprecedented but not unparalleled event. This has given everyone an extremely vivid lesson in encryption.
In this class, some trends have become more obvious: DEX is surpassing CEX to become the new encryption center; Solana is surpassing Ethereum to become the new king of public chains; meme is subverting diluted VC coins and advocating a fairer way of listing coins.
In this class, some products received great exposure. Moonshot added 400,000 new users a day and reached 1 million daily active users; UniversalXs transaction volume was 20 times that of normal days; meme coin issuance platform pump.funs annual revenue was nearly US$400 million; Phantoms daily transaction volume exceeded US$1.25 billion, with more than 8 million requests per minute, constantly challenging the transaction limit that blockchain products can withstand.
Trumps issuance of a coin is not just a simple combination of politics and cryptocurrency. It has become an even more groundbreaking event than Bitcoin breaking through $100,000. It has made a large number of people who dont know about cryptocurrency pay attention to this industry again. This news ranked seventh on Weibos hot search list, appeared on the Douyin social news hot search list, and also became the headlines of major American media. The search volume for Bitcoin on the Google platform has soared...
The impact of this $80 billion Trump Crypto Open Class on the future is still fermenting.
