Donald Trump Releases His Own NFT Collection
The cryptocurrency industry attracts famous people from all around the place - the latest addition is former U.S. president Donald Trump.
Trump has released a collection of trading cards in the form of non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
In fact, the former U.S. president has launched an initial series of 45,000 digital NFT cards of himself, minted on Polygon’s blockchain (MATIC). The announcement was made on the social media platform Truth Social on December 15th.
It should be noted that many people were previously skeptical of the former president’s “big announcement,” suggesting that Trump would announce his candidacy for the 2024 election. The launch of the collection surprised most.
Within a day of their release, the digital cards depicting Trump’s “extraordinary life and career” were completely sold out at their original price of $99 (plus transaction fees) per token. Public interest is growing and trading continues to pick up.
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At the time of writing, the collection’s trading volume has exceeded 860 Ethereum. There are over 14,500 owners of these items according to data from OpenSea.
Former first lady Melania Trump also got in on the trend before her husband, as she launched an NFT platform on the Solana (SOL) blockchain in December 2021 to reflect her “passion for the arts.”
Alexander Stefanov
Reporter at CoinsPress
Alex is Editor-in-Chief of Coinspress and co-founder of Millennial Media Group, with nearly a decade of experience covering financial markets - crypto first, then everything else. It started in 2016 with Bitcoin. Like most people at the time, he didn't fully understand it - so he kept digging. Blockchain, tokenomics, the projects, the cycles. That curiosity never stopped, and eventually pulled him into traditional markets too: equities, commodities, macro. Not because he left crypto behind, but because you can't properly understand one without the other. What drives him is straightforward: he wants to know why something is happening, not just that it's happening. Most market coverage stops at the headline - price up, price down, here's a chart. Alex finds that kind of reporting actively unhelpful. If you walk away from an article without understanding the mechanism behind the move, what did you actually learn? He holds a degree in Tourism from New Bulgarian University - not the most obvious path into financial markets, but markets have a way of pulling in people who are simply too curious to stay out. He has authored over 200 in-depth analyses and more than 10,000 articles across crypto and traditional finance. He still thinks every day in markets teaches him something new. That's probably why he hasn't stopped.
