Incoming first lady Melania Trump has launched her own cryptocurrency on the eve of her husband’s inauguration, making billions in a matter of minutes. ‘The Official Melania Meme is live! You can buy $MELANIA now,

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Fake Solana memecoins pretending to be Trump Official (TRUMP) and Melania Official (MELANIA) tokens are attracting significant attention.

What are TRUMP and MELANIA meme coins? What are the risks and why a certain section of the community has criticized these meme coins? Let’s find out.

Melania Trump launched a meme coin on the eve of her husband’s inauguration — causing his own new cryptocurrency to briefly tank amid a buying frenzy. The incoming first lady dropped news of the cryptocurrency — “$MELANIA” — on Sunday night — just days after her husband, President-elect Donald Trump, revealed his own newly created $TRUMP coin.

Digital currencies values surges amid expectation that new administration will support ‘crypto-friendly’ environment

Donald Trump launched $TRUMP cryptocurrency, a meme coin, days before his inauguration. It quickly reached over $32 billion in value. Melania has now launched her own.

Cryptocurrencies affiliated with President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump plummeted in the initial hours after Trump was sworn into office Monday.

The Official Trump cryptocurrency is seeing substantial sell-offs today. The cryptocurrency's token price was down 17.8% over the previous 24 hours of trading as of 5:15 p.m. ET Wednesday. Trump Official is a meme coin that was launched by President Trump last Friday.

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Dubbed $TRUMP and $MELANIA, the tokens are a type of cryptocurrency that doesn’t serve any economic purpose and whose value is based largely on the popularity of internet memes. The market cap of the $TRUMP token stood at about $9 billion as of 7:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday; $MELANIA hovered around $810 million.