Melania Trump
Melania Trump launches her own cryptocurrency ahead of Donald Trump's inauguration
Incoming US First Lady Melania Trump has launched a cryptocurrency of her own just hours before her husband Donald Trump's inauguration.
She made the announcement just hours after Donald Trump launched $Trump cryptocurrency.
Both coins spiked but remained volatile during trading.
Sharing her currency, Melania Trump wrote on X: "he Official Melania Meme is live!"
The Official Melania Meme is live!
— MELANIA TRUMP (@MELANIATRUMP) January 19, 2025
You can buy $MELANIA now. https://t.co/8FXvlMBhVf
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"You can buy $MELANIA now," she said.
The website for the "Official Melania Meme" said the crypto asset was created on the Solana blockchain.
The $Trump meme coin has a total market valuation of about $12 billion (£9.8bn) and the $Melania cryptocurrency stands at just over $2 billion, according to the CoinMarketCap website as quoted by Independent.
Despite criticising it earlier, Trump had accepted digital assets as donations during 2024 presidential campaign.
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