Donald Trump’s cryptocurrency ventures were the main driver behind the near tripling of his personal wealth, which rose from €2.02 billion to €5.7 billion between 2024 and 2026, according to Forbes.
U.S. President Donald Trump earned approximately $1.2 billion (€1.05 billion) from cryptocurrency-related activities in 2025, according to calculations by Agence France-Presse (AFP).
A 1978 U.S. law requires the president and vice president to disclose their income and assets through annual financial disclosure reports.
According to AFP’s analysis of the 927-page financial disclosure documents released on Tuesday by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics (OGE), Trump received about $550 million (€482 million) through his ties to cryptocurrency start-up World Liberty Financial (WLF).
The platform was co-founded in September 2024 by Donald Trump’s sons and the son of U.S. Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff.
World Liberty Financial launched its own cryptocurrency, WLFI, whose initial token sale raised $550 million. Since it began trading in September 2025, however, the token’s value has declined from 46 cents to around 6 cents per token.
Trump’s cryptocurrency ventures are the primary reason his personal fortune nearly tripled, increasing from $2.3 billion to $6.5 billion (from €2.02 billion to €5.7 billion) between 2024 and 2026, according to Forbes.
Donald Trump and his three sons also received an additional 22.5 billion WLFI tokens through an intermediary company, DT Marks DeFi. At current market prices, those holdings are worth approximately $1.3 billion (€1.14 billion).
In April 2025, WLF also launched its own stablecoin, a digital currency whose value is pegged to a traditional currency—in this case, the U.S. dollar.
Trump’s financial disclosure also lists royalty income earned under a licensing agreement related to the $TRUMP cryptocurrency, which was launched just hours before his inauguration in January 2025.
According to the OGE filing, this licensing agreement generated an additional $635 million (€556.5 million) in income.
A former real estate developer, Trump has frequently faced accusations of conflicts of interest, particularly over his investments in the cryptocurrency industry while simultaneously pursuing policies to deregulate the sector after returning to office—moves that critics say have boosted the value of crypto assets.
The White House has dismissed any ethical concerns.
“Neither the President nor his family have been—nor will they be—involved in any conflict of interest,” White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly said in a statement provided to AFP.
Kelly added that Donald Trump had “proudly made the United States the crypto capital of the world,” stressing that both the President’s actions and those of his administration are carried out “in the best interests of the American people.”
“So-called ‘journalists’ claiming otherwise are simply recycling the same false narrative that Democrats and the legacy media have repeated for the past decade,” she said.
First Lady Melania Trump’s income also appears in her husband’s financial disclosure. It includes more than $10 million earned from a documentary about her streamed on Amazon, as well as more than $500,000 from sales of her book Melania.
In addition to income generated through WLF and its cryptocurrency projects, Trump also earned millions of dollars from investments in publicly traded companies operating in the digital asset sector, including cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase.
His earnings were further boosted by sales of Trump-branded merchandise, ranging from clothing to bumper stickers, as well as more than $208,000 generated from sales of Bibles marketed in partnership with country singer Lee Greenwood.
Trump’s assets are held in a trust managed by his son, Donald Trump Jr. However, the trust agreement allows it to be dissolved at any time, meaning the president could regain direct control of the assets once his second term ends in 2029.
Vice President JD Vance also reported a significant increase in income since taking office. His financial disclosure lists between $1 million and $5 million in royalties from his 2016 memoir, Hillbilly Elegy.
Diário de Notícias, 07/01/2026
