Investing.com — U.S. President-elect Donald Trump introduced the launch of his meme coin, $TRUMP, in a Fact Social put up late Friday, which shortly soared in market capitalisation to a number of billion {dollars}.
“My NEW Official Trump Meme is HERE! It is time to have a good time every little thing we stand for: WINNING!” Trump wrote in a put up on his social media platform Fact Social.
The transfer comes forward of Trump’s inauguration on Monday, which is broadly anticipated to usher in a brand new period of digital asset adoption.
Trump, who beforehand referred to as “a rip-off”, has pledged that America could be “the crypto capital of the planet” as soon as he returned workplace.
was buying and selling simply above $71 as of 07:40am ET (12:40 GMT), reaching a market cap of $14.2 billion, in response to CoinMarketCap.
Main crypto exchanges together with Coinbase (NASDAQ:) and Binance have mentioned they plan to listing the memecoin token.
Some 200m of the digital tokens have been issued and one other 800m shall be launched within the subsequent three years, the coin’s web site mentioned.