Donald Trump's family is becoming richer – currently mainly thanks to cryptocurrencies. On Wednesday, September 3, American Bitcoin She celebrated a successful debut on the NASDAQ Technology Exchange. In the meantime, the price of the shares increased more than twice compared to the initial price of $ 6.90. (approx. PLN 25). The first day of quotations of the Bitcoin mining company ended with an increase of 16.5 percent, reaching a price of $ 8.04. (approx. PLN 29).
The American Bitcoin entrance to the stock exchange caused that The estate of Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. It increased by billions of dollars. And this is not the only injection of money that the American president's family recently received.
Both sons of the US president have a total of 20 percent. shares in this cryptocurrency company. The current value of their shares is $ 1.5 billion. (PLN 5 billion 454 million). At the time of reaching the highest daily level of action, Trump's sons were worth up to $ 2.6 billion. (PLN 9 billion 453 million). Eric Trump did not hide his enthusiasm after the company's entry into the Nasdaq stock exchange. – Cryptocurrencies are experiencing a real boom He said in an interview with the Reuters agency.
American Bitcoin was only created this year. The greatest shareholder is Hut 8 – an American cryptocurrency company specializing in digital currency mining. The chief shareholder provides his subsidiary with Bitcoins. Before entering the stock exchange, the American Bitcoin merged with the company extracting the Gryphon Digital Mining cryptocurrencies, which was already recorded on NASDAQ.
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Eric Trump, vice president of Trump Organization and son of US President Donald Trump participates in the Bitcoin Asia 2025 conference in Hong Kong, China, August 29, 2025.
As the purpose of its activity, the new listed company gives “mining activities and occasional Bitcoin purchases”. American Bitcoin wants to benefit from the fact that more and more large, reputable enterprises creates strategic Bitcoin reserves. This caused that the largest cryptocurrency in the world reached new heights. This summer, Bitcoin crossed the limit of 120 thousand for the first time. hole. (PLN 436 thousand 284). Currently, its price is about 110 thousand. hole. (PLN 399 thousand 927).
The new token brings a billion to the Trump clan
Just a few days ago, another cryptocurrency project from the Trump universe entered the market. From Monday, the World Liberty Financial WLFI is on the market. “The Wall Street Journal” called the debut of WLFI “probably the greatest financial success of the Trump family since the inauguration of Donald Trump. The increase in assets is estimated at $ 5 billion. (PLN 18 billion 179 million) – at least on paper.
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Trump and his sons Eric, Don Jr. And Barron Trump, who, according to the American daily, have a total of a quarter of all WLFI tokens, cannot sell them forever.
The first investors who bought their tokens for 1.50 cent before its official debut on the stock exchange made a lot of launch on the market. On Monday, the cryptocurrency entered the market at a price of 24 cents, and then increased to 33 cents. Then, however, Wlfi lost all its profits. Currently, the token is worth 18 cents.
So the situation that took place during the introduction of Memecoin Trump was repeated. The coin called “$ Trump” also fell after a spectacular start – leaving hundreds of thousands of small investors with large losses.
Cryptocurrencies more important than real estate
Therefore, Trump's cryptocurrency transactions are more and more criticized. The US President is accused of a conflict of interest. The first “President of Bitcoin”, like a Republican, called himself during the election campaign, from returning to the White House conducts a very friendly cryptocurrency politics. And he constantly attracts attention with advertising of digital currencies, with which he is at least indirectly related. However, Trump and his clan are resistant to criticism.
The fact is, however, that cryptocurrency transactions have become the most lucrative pillar of Trump Organization, a family company of the US president, whose basis is the real estate. It includes luxurious hotels, golf courses and elegant estates around the world – more and more in the Middle East.
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