The President of the United States Issues a Coin, an $800 Billion Value Crypto User Education

Original Article Title: "Trump Coin, an $800 Billion "Crypto Lecture" in Session"

Original Article Author: Zhou, Foresight News

U.S. President Trump issued the official "Presidential Coin" TRUMP, and in less than two days, its market capitalization surpassed $800 billion.

This event will undoubtedly become a landmark event in history. Whether for crypto practitioners or observers, this "Trump Coin Event" will also be a good opportunity for iteration and updating the industry's understanding of crypto.

As a participant and observer, from 10:50 a.m. on January 18th (when the TRUMP token was worth about $3 billion) to the evening of January 19th (when the TRUMP token was worth $800 billion), I witnessed the entire process of the "Presidential Coin" explosion and engaged in extensive discussions with other crypto practitioners. Therefore, I attempted to summarize and record these observations and discussions.

Presidential Crypto Course Lesson 1: Opportunity On-Chain

If you don't use DEX products like Phantom, Jupiter, etc., you will most likely miss out on the TRUMP opportunity. If your on-chain funds are not substantial, you will also probably not achieve a high return in this event.

The Trump Coin Event has become the most iconic turning point, indicating an irreversible trend: the center of cryptocurrency is accelerating its shift from CEX (centralized exchanges) to DEX (decentralized exchanges).

During the day and a half after the TRUMP token launched, with no major centralized exchange listing the token, the TRUMP market cap reached $500 billion. Data shows that in January 2024, DEX's trading volume accounted for only 9.3% of CEX, while in January 2025, this data rose to 17.6%. These figures indicate that DEX is replacing CEX as the most important "gathering place" for crypto players.

Furthermore, the performance of the decentralized contract exchange Hypeliquid also surpassed numerous centralized exchanges in this event. Hypeliquid was the earliest exchange to launch the TRUMP contract, going live with the TRUMP contract around 1 p.m. on January 18th, taking only three hours to deploy the contract. At that time, TRUMP's market cap was around $10 billion (reaching $800 billion on the second day of the launch). The First Lady Coin MELANIA's contract went live at around 10 a.m. on January 20th, deploying the hot token contract in less than 5 hours.

Must-Have Crypto Products: Phantom, Jupiter, Uniswap

President's Crypto Course Lesson 2: Martial Arts in the World, Speed ​​is the Key

The President Coin TRUMP token went live around 10 a.m. on January 18, with an initial price of approximately $0.18. By the evening of January 19, TRUMP had reached a peak of $80. During this period, the price surged by over 400 times.

During this time, not only is it important to spot opportunities quickly but also to make decisions swiftly in order to secure lower chip prices.

The most outstanding traders bought TRUMP before 10:30 a.m., such as 0xSun, Dayu, Yuyue, and other KOLs. They mostly share a common habit of monitoring smart money on-chain. Monitoring on-chain wallets allows them to spot opportunities the fastest. Real-time monitoring of on-chain smart money requires the use of products like GMGN, Debot, Vector, etc. Meanwhile, technically savvy crypto professionals may write their own code to monitor smart money addresses on-chain.

Spotting opportunities is only the first step; decision-making is the second step.

In this "Trump Coin Launch Event," the two platforms that require the most attention are Twitter and Moonshot. They served as crucial platforms for many crypto professionals to decide whether to buy TRUMP. The official Trump tweet was posted at 10:44 a.m., indicating the authenticity of the event. Moonshot launched the token at a price of 1.21 U, further validating the authenticity and significance of the event. This was the time window when most people could seize this opportunity.

Must-Have Crypto Products: GMGN, Vector, Debot, Twitter, Moonshot

President's Crypto Course Lesson 3: Cognition Determines Position, Tools Determine Speed

Cognition determines position. Some people buy early but buy a small amount and sell even earlier; others buy late but have a large amount of on-chain funds or may use cross-chain products, allowing them to take high positions. All of these factors ultimately determine the final outcome.

When TRUMP's market cap reached $5 billion, some were skeptical about the authenticity of this event, while others were already convinced that its market cap would surpass Dogecoin's $600 billion market cap. Some believed that on-chain funds could not support the sudden $600 billion new token for two days, while others understood the significant difference between TRUMP token's market cap and FDV.

If there is not enough Sol on the chain, and one does not use cross-chain products like UniversalX to convert ETH to SOL, then there is a high probability of missing out on a large amount of income; if one is not aware that TRUMP will surpass DOGE, then there is a high probability of missing out on the highest increase; if one does not see TRUMP draining all other cryptocurrencies, then there is a high probability of missing out on the highest increase; if one does not see the huge difference between FDV and market cap, then there is a high probability of missing out on the highest increase; if one does not see the importance and circle-breaking significance of Trump issuing coins, does not realize the global consensus on the U.S. president, then there is still a high probability of missing out on the highest increase; if one treats the TRUMP token as a mere meme, one will also miss out on the largest increase... Tools determine the speed of asset movement, while cognition determines position.

Essential Crypto Products: UniversalX, GMGN, Coinmarketcap

Presidential Crypto Course Lesson Four: The Meaning of Meme

After Trump issued a coin, many "crypto influencers" denounced Trump for using his power for personal gain, criticizing memes for having only PVP attributes and no actual value.

However, there seems to be no fairer way of issuing assets than through memes. When the situation of exorbitant "listing fees" on large centralized cryptocurrency exchanges, "insider trading," and "contract pinning" continues to be rampant, memes are the only fair way of issuing assets; when many large public chains have more and more situations of "marketing costs of millions of dollars a year," "complex interest groups," and "increasingly high entry barriers for emerging entrepreneurs," memes are the only asset that all participants can trust as the most relatively fair.

Prior to the AI Agent narrative, it seemed that memes could not find a valuable application scenario, but with the emergence of the AI Agent narrative, people found that memes are just a form of technological product, and how they are used depends on people, not on the inherent flaws of memes themselves. When AI Agent encounters memes, many practitioners also find that memes can drive many interesting things.

Memes are not that good, but the old world is worse.

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Final Words

The U.S. President Trump issuing a meme coin is an unprecedented event, but it is by no means an event that will not be followed by others. This has given everyone an incredibly vivid crypto lesson.

In this class, some trends have become more apparent: DEX is surpassing CEX to become the new crypto hub; Solana is surpassing Ethereum to become the new king of public blockchains; meme is disrupting diluted VC coins, advocating for a more equitable listing process.

In this class, some products have received significant exposure: Moonshot added 400,000 users in a day, with a daily active user count of 1 million; UniversalX's trading volume is 20 times its usual daily volume; meme coin issuance platform pump.fun has generated nearly $4 billion in revenue in a year; Phantom's daily transaction volume has exceeded $1.25 billion, with over 8 million requests per minute, continuously challenging the transaction limits that blockchain products can handle.

TrumpCoin, far from being a simple combination of politics and cryptocurrency, has become an event that breaks the circle even more than Bitcoin breaking $100,000. It has brought a large number of people unfamiliar with cryptocurrency back to pay attention to this industry. This news has made it to the top 7 trending topics on Weibo, reached the top of Douyin's social news trending list, and become a headline news story in major U.S. media outlets, with a sharp increase in Bitcoin searches on Google...

The impact of this $80 billion "Trump Crypto Masterclass" on the future is still fermenting.

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