The launch of the Trump token, which hit a $15 billion valuation, rides the trend and raises questions. Axios reporter Brady Dale explains what a meme coin is and what owners can actually do with them.

The launch of $TRUMP, a meme coin associated with Donald Trump, has thrust the intersection of cryptocurrency, politics, and culture into the spotlight.

Just days ahead of his return to the White House, President Trump and his wife, Melania, launched a pair of meme coins that have skyrocketed in value and earned them billions of dollars, at least on paper.

Donald Trump’s newly launched cryptocurrency surged on Monday to nearly $11 billion in market value as billions poured into trading just hours before the president-elect takes the oath of office.

The incoming first couple have launched a pair of meme coins in the leadup to president-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration that are already worth billions of dollars on paper. But the timing of the Trump cryptocurrency launch,

As Trump becomes the 47th president, his entry into the cryptocurrency space through meme tokens marks an unprecedented intersection of power and digital assets.

Speculative meme coin funds will test the Securities and Exchange Commission’s boundaries under President Trump.