Trump-Linked Crypto Ventures Leave Investors $4.7B in Losses
A report by Public Citizen reveals that investors have accumulated estimated losses of $4.7 billion across five digital asset initiatives linked to U.S. President Donald Trump.
The largest share of these losses is attributed to the official TRUMP memecoin, which accounts for $3.2 billion in realized and unrealized losses for its buyers.
According to on-chain intelligence firm Nansen, approximately one million retail addresses were in the red by the end of Q1 2026, with 65% of analyzed wallets experiencing losses.
The decentralized finance ecosystem World Liberty Financial's governance token, WLFI, generated estimated losses of at least $1 billion. The token reached an all-time high of $0.3313 on September 1, 2025, before dropping to $0.05744 by the time the report was written.
Trump Media & Technology Group’s corporate digital asset treasury added an estimated negative balance of $450 million for the company's shareholders.