{"id":90472,"date":"2025-01-21T01:46:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T06:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=90472"},"modified":"2025-01-21T01:50:34","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T06:50:34","slug":"trumps-crypto-frenzied-inauguration-makes-first-family-billions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2025\/trumps-crypto-frenzied-inauguration-makes-first-family-billions.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s crypto-frenzied inauguration makes first family billions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) Crypto A-listers rubbed elbows with political elites and members of Trump\u2019s inner circle at the Crypto Ball, held at the opulent Mellon Auditorium, just down the street from the White House. Meanwhile, Trump\u2019s net worth was about to explode from an asset that, up to that point, didn\u2019t exist. The same night of the party, the incoming  president&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1880446012168249386\" target=\"_blank\">launched<\/a>&nbsp;$TRUMP, a meme coin built on the Solana platform. Its market cap over the weekend climbed&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/categories\/solana-meme-coins\" target=\"_blank\">past $14 billion<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/01\/20\/trump-crypto-fueled-inauguration-makes-family-billions-of-dollars.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Crypto A-listers rubbed elbows with political elites and members of Trump\u2019s inner circle at the Crypto Ball, held at the opulent Mellon Auditorium, just down the street from the White House. Meanwhile, Trump\u2019s net worth was about to explode [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90472"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90474,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90472\/revisions\/90474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}