Melania Meme
| Melania Meme | |
|---|---|
| Token | |
| Ticker | $MELANIA |
| Contract | FUAf…xM1P |
| Chain | Solana |
| Launched | 2025-01-19 |
| Launchpad | Meteora |
| Status | Active |
| Also known as | melania $melania Official Melania Meme |
| Market | |
| Price | — |
| Market cap | — |
| Liquidity | — |
| Volume (24h) | — |
| Change (1h) | — |
| Change (24h) | — |
| Links | |
| DEX Screener · Birdeye · GMGN · Solscan | |
Melania Meme (ticker MELANIA) is a Solana memecoin announced by Melania Trump on 19 January 2025, two days after Official Trump.[1]
Lore[edit]
Melania Trump posted the contract address on Truth Social and X; the token reached a $5.69 billion fully diluted value on DEX Screener within hours.[1] Disclosed allocation: 45% community, public distribution and liquidity, 20% treasury and 35% team, vesting monthly over 13 months after a 30-day cliff.[1] Financial disclosures showed it was launched by MKT World LLC, a company Melania Trump set up for speaking fees and NFT sales.[1] Its launch coincided with TRUMP falling as much as 48%.[1]
MELANIA peaked near a $7 billion market cap and fell about 99%, to roughly $80 million, within months.[2] Hayden Davis of Kelsier Ventures described himself as a launch strategist for MELANIA.[3]
Timeline[edit]
- 2025-01-19: launch[1]
- 2025-02: Bubblemaps links MELANIA and Libra to the same team[2]
- 2025-04-07: Bubblemaps reports about $30 million of community tokens moved and partly sold[4]
- 2025-10-23: two "Official Melania Meme" wallets receive about $1.23 million in Meteora's MET airdrop[2]
- 2025-10: amended class action names MELANIA among five tokens[5]
Key wallets[edit]
Two wallets labelled "Official Melania Meme" on Arkham, melania-liquidity1.sol and melania-liquidity2.sol, received $784,200 and $454,724 of MET on 2025-10-23 and moved the funds on.[2]
Controversies[edit]
At launch Bubblemaps said nearly 90% of supply sat in one wallet, inconsistent with the stated distribution.[6] In April 2025 it reported about 50 million tokens (about $30 million) moved out of community allocations, with team wallets controlling 92% of supply; the team did not explain the movements at the time.[4]
According to Bubblemaps, a sniper wallet took more than $2.4 million from the MELANIA launch and routed profits to an address that later funded the LIBRA creator wallet.[7] Hurlock v. Kelsier Ventures, a class action in New York, alleges Meteora co-founder Benjamin Chow, Kelsier Ventures and the Davis family ran a scheme across at least 15 tokens including MELANIA; it describes Melania Trump and Javier Milei as "window dressing", not defendants.[5] Chow, who resigned from Meteora in February 2025, has denied receiving LIBRA tokens or having insider information.[5] These are allegations.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Donald Trump memecoin crashes 48% as Melania Trump launches her own memecoin, The Block, 2025-01-19
- ^ Wallets Tied to Melania Trump Meme Coin Airdropped $1.2 Million in Meteora Tokens, Decrypt, 2025-10-23
- ^ Milei's Meme Coin Advisor Says He's Sitting on $100M and Doesn't Know What to Do With It, Decrypt, 2025-02
- ^ Melania Trump memecoin team sold $30 million: Bubblemaps, Cointelegraph, 2025-04
- ^ Class action lawsuit claims Ben Chow orchestrated Melania, LIBRA memecoin fraud, The Block, 2025-10-23
- ^ Melania Trump memecoin launches, notches $4B market cap, Cointelegraph, 2025-01-19
- ^ How Hayden Davis Rugged $LIBRA for $100M With President Milei, Bubblemaps, 2025-03-25