Trump issued currency, an $80 billion “encryption public lesson”

Written by: Zhou Zhou, Foresight News

US President Trump issued TRUMP, the official “Presidential Coin”. In less than two days, its market value reached a peak of more than 80 billion US dollars.

This incident will undoubtedly go down in history as an important event. Whether it is for encryption practitioners or bystanders, this "Trump currency issue incident" will also become a good opportunity to iterate and update the understanding of the encryption industry.

As a participant and observer, I discovered from 10:50 a.m. on January 18 (the value of TRUMP tokens was approximately US$3 billion) to the evening of January 19 (when the value of TRUMP tokens was approximately US$80 billion). At the end of the observation, I witnessed the entire process of the explosion of "President Coin" and had a lot of discussions with other encryption practitioners. To this end, I have attempted to summarize and document these observations and discussions.

Presidential Crypto Course Lesson 1: Opportunity is on-chain

If you don’t play DEX (decentralized exchange) products such as Phantom and Jupiter, you will most likely miss this TRUMP opportunity. If there are not enough funds on the chain, there is a high probability that you will not get high enough returns from this event.

Trump’s coin issuance event has become the most iconic turning point, indicating an irreversible trend: the center of cryptocurrency is accelerating its shift from CEX (centralized exchange) to DEX (decentralized exchange).

Within a day and a half after the TRUMP token was launched, without any large centralized exchange listing the token, the market value of TRUMP reached $50 billion. 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 that of many centralized exchanges this time. Hypeliquid is currently the first exchange to launch the TRUMP contract. It launched the TRUMP contract at around 13:00 on January 18. It only took three hours to launch the contract. At this time, the market value of TRUMP was approximately US$10 billion (the first time it was launched). The market capitalization reached a maximum of US$80 billion on the second day). The contract for the president's wife's coin MELANIA was launched at around 10 a.m. on January 20, and the contract deployment of the hot token was completed in less than 5 hours.

Must-have crypto products: Phantom, Jupiter, Uniswap

Lesson 2 of the Presidential Encryption Course: Martial arts in the

world, only fast ones are unbreakable

The Presidential Coin TRUMP token will be launched around 10:00 on January 18, and the listing price will be approximately US$0.18. On the evening of January 19, TRUMP reached a maximum of $80. The increase reached more than 400 times during this period.

During this period of time, you need to make quick discoveries as well as make quick decisions in order to get lower chips.

The best traders are to buy TRUMP before 10:30, such as 0xSun, Daewoo, Yuyue and other KOLs. Most of them have a common characteristic, which is the habit of monitoring smart money on the chain. The habit of monitoring wallets on the chain allows them to discover opportunities as quickly as possible. To follow the 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 their own code to monitor the addresses of smart money on the chain.

Discovering opportunities is only the first step, decision-making is the second step.

In this "Trump currency issuance incident", the two platforms that require the most attention are: Twitter and moonshot. They are important reference platforms for many crypto practitioners to decide whether to buy TRUMP this time. The time of Trump’s official Twitter tweet is 10:44, which represents the authenticity of the event. The price of moonshot’s listed token is 1.21 U, which further verifies the authenticity and importance of the event. This is also the time window when most people can seize this opportunity.

Must-have encryption products: GMGN, Vector, Debot, Twitter, moonshot.

Lesson 3 of the Presidential Encryption Course: Cognition determines

positions, tools determine speed

Knowledge determines position. Some people buy early, but buy less and sell earlier; some people buy late, but have more funds on the chain, or use cross-chain products, and dare to take heavy positions. These ultimately determine the final outcome.

When TRUMP had a market value of US$5 billion, some people doubted the authenticity of this matter, but some people have determined that its market value will exceed Dogecoin, which has a market value of US$60 billion. Some people believe that on-chain funds cannot bear the $60 billion in new tokens in two days, and some people already understand the huge difference between the market value of TRUMP tokens and FDV.

If there is not enough Sol on the chain, and cross-chain products such as UnivesalX are not used to convert ETH into SOL, then there is a high probability that you will miss out on large gains; if you do not realize that TRUMP will surpass DOGE, then there is a high probability that you will miss the highest increase; If you don’t see that TRUMP is sucking blood from all other cryptocurrencies, you will most likely miss the highest increase; if you don’t see FDV If there is a huge difference between the market value and market value, then there is a high probability that you will miss the highest increase; if you do not see the importance and degree of breaking the circle of Trump’s coin issuance, and do not realize the degree of global consensus on the US president, then you will still There is a high probability that you will miss the highest increase; if you treat the TRUMP token as an ordinary meme, you will also miss the largest increase... Tools determine the speed of asset flow, and cognition determines positions.

Must-have crypto products: UniversalX, GMGN, Coinmarketcap

Presidential Encryption Course Lesson 4: The Meaning of Meme

After Trump issued the currency, many "crypto Vs" accused Trump of using power for personal gain and criticized the meme for having only PVP attributes and no actual value.

However, there seems to be no fairer way to issue assets than memes. When large centralized cryptocurrency exchanges suffer from "high listing fees", "inside information" and "contract pins", memes are the only fair way to issue assets; when some large public chains have "marketing expenses" Tens of millions of dollars a year”, “complicated interest groups”, and “setting higher and higher entry barriers for emerging entrepreneurs” are becoming more and more common. Meme is the only and most fair way to reassure all participants. assets.

Before AI Agent narrative, meme seemed to have never been able to find valuable combination application scenarios. However, after the emergence of AI Agent narrative, people discovered that meme is just a technical product form, and how to use it depends on the person, not the mistake of the meme itself. When AI Agent encountered memes, many practitioners also discovered that memes can also promote many interesting things.

Meme isn't that good, but the old world is worse.

Must-have encryption products: Pump.fun, Clanker, Virtuals, ai16z

write at the end

U.S. President Trump issued meme coins, which is an unprecedented event but certainly not unprecedented. This gave everyone an extremely vivid encryption lesson.

In this class, some trends became more obvious: DEX is surpassing CEX and becoming the new encryption center; Solana is surpassing Ethereum and becoming the new king of public chains; memes are subverting and diluting VC coins and advocating for a fairer listing. currency method.

In this class, some products gained great exposure. Moonshot added 400,000 new users a day, and its daily active users reached 1 million; Universal Revenue is nearly 400 million U.S. dollars; Phantom's single-day transaction volume exceeds 1.25 billion U.S. dollars, and the number of requests per minute exceeds 8 million, constantly challenging the transaction upper limit that blockchain products can withstand.

Trump’s coin issuance is not a simple combination of politics and cryptocurrency. It has become a more disruptive event than Bitcoin’s breakthrough of 100,000 US dollars. It has made a large number of people who don’t know about cryptocurrency pay attention again. to this industry. This news became the seventh most searched list on Weibo, the most searched social news list on Douyin, and became the headline news of major media in the United States. The search volume for Bitcoin on the Google platform soared...

The impact of this $80 billion “Trump Encryption Open Class” on the future is still unfolding.