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<p>In Trump crypto news today, the US Office of Government Ethics (OGE) released President Donald Trump’s 927-page Annual Financial Disclosure on July 1, 2026, covering calendar year 2025, with a headline figure of $1.4Bn in crypto-derived income.</p>
<p>This is approximately $635M in royalties channeled through CIC Digital LLC from the $TRUMP meme coin, more than $520M in proceeds from World Liberty Financial (WLFI) token sales, and a further $50M-plus in direct crypto holdings including Bitcoin and Ethereum, according to the OGE filing and corroborating reporting by DW and Yahoo Finance.</p>
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<p>The disclosure lands in the same legislative window as Trump’s signing of the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins (GENIUS Act), the landmark federal framework that moves dollar-pegged stablecoins out of regulatory ambiguity and into a supervised issuance regime.</p>
<p>WLFI issues the USD1 stablecoin, one of the instruments most directly legitimized by that legislation. The structural result is that the president who signed the GENIUS Act into law is simultaneously the primary financial beneficiary of a DeFi protocol whose stablecoin the Act governs.</p>
<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="trump-crypto-oge-disclosure-2025-635m-cic-digital-llc-meme-coin-royalties-and-520m-world-liberty-financial-token-sales">Trump Crypto OGE Disclosure 2025: $635M CIC Digital LLC Meme Coin Royalties and $520M+ World Liberty Financial Token Sales</h2>
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   <p>THIS IS FUCKING INSANE <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/1f631.png" alt="😱"><br><br>$52,100,000,000 has been wiped out from Trump's crypto-related ventures over the past year.<a href="https://x.com/search?q=%24TRUMP&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">$TRUMP</a> is down 97.85%, wiping out $17.8 billion.<a href="https://x.com/search?q=%24ABTC&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">$ABTC</a> is down 95.3%, wiping out $12 billion.<a href="https://x.com/search?q=%24WLFI&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">$WLFI</a> is down 84.3%, wiping out $11.3 billion.<a href="https://x.com/search?q=%24MELANIA&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">$MELANIA</a> is down… <a href="https://t.co/xFQgQwfZZO" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">pic.twitter.com/xFQgQwfZZO</a></p>— Max Crypto (@MaxCrypto) <a href="https://x.com/MaxCrypto/status/2072247092177961444?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">July 1, 2026</a>
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<p>The $635M attributed to $TRUMP in the OGE filing is classified as royalty income from a licensing agreement with Celebration Coins, via CIC Digital LLC.</p>
<p>This classification is significant for investors, as Trump’s income is fixed as a percentage of meme coin activity and insulated from $TRUMP’s spot price, while retail token holders face market risks.</p>
<p>World Liberty Financial, co-founded by Trump and his sons, generated over $520M from WLFI token sales in 2025, up from $57.35M in the June interim filing, with total WLFI-related inflows estimated at around $800M.</p>
<p>Trump personally holds 15.75 billion WLFI governance tokens, giving him significant exposure to potential regulatory changes.</p>
<p>In comparison, Trump’s non-crypto income is smaller: Trump Turnberry and Trump International Golf Links generated roughly £30M combined, while media lawsuit settlements added over $80M.</p>
<p>Trump-branded watches contributed $4.7M, and Forbes revised Trump’s net worth to $6Bn in 2026, a substantial increase driven primarily by crypto income.</p>
<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="genius-act-signed-into-law-what-the-stablecoin-framework-establishes-and-why-trump-s-disclosure-figures-make-him-the-sector-s-primary-financial-stakeholder">GENIUS Act Signed Into Law: What the Stablecoin Framework Establishes and Why Trump’s Disclosure Figures Make Him the Sector’s Primary Financial Stakeholder</h2>
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   <p>Theo bản đánh giá tài chính công bố, Tổng thống Donald Trump đã ghi nhận mức thu nhập hơn 1,4 tỷ USD từ các dự án tiền điện tử của gia đình trong năm ngoái.<br><br>– Thu nhập từ crypto: memecoin + World Liberty Financial… <a href="https://t.co/IrBU2oxkbq" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">pic.twitter.com/IrBU2oxkbq</a></p>— FINVENTURE.VN (@finventure_vn) <a href="https://x.com/finventure_vn/status/2072150811300495766?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">July 1, 2026</a>
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<p>The GENIUS Act creates a licensing and reserve requirement for stablecoin issuers, mandating full-reserve backing, audits, and compliance with Bank Secrecy Act obligations.</p>
<p>For WLFI’s USD1 stablecoin, this Act serves as a certificate of legitimacy, allowing compliant issuers access to previously unavailable institutional settlement and banking partnerships.</p>
<p>Senate Democrats, led by Senator Elizabeth Warren, pushed for provisions to prevent sitting presidents and senior officials from profiting from digital assets under their regulatory control, but these were ultimately removed.</p>
<p>This Trump crypto news has the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) disclosing that the sitting president has over $520 million in WLFI token-sale proceeds tied to the law he signed.</p>
<p>While the OGE reviews financial disclosures for executive officials, the president isn’t bound by the same product-endorsement prohibitions as other federal employees, a gap that ethics watchdogs have highlighted.</p>
<p>The 927-page filing, cited by the Trump Organization as proof of transparency, does not address the conflict-of-interest concerns arising from the signing of the GENIUS Act.</p>
<p><em>The author does not hold or have a position in any securities discussed in the article.</em></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://tokenist.com/trump-crypto-earnings-oge-disclosure-2025-genius-act/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Trump Crypto: 2025 Disclosure Shows $1.4Bn in Crypto Income</a> appeared first on <a href="https://tokenist.com" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Tokenist</a>.</p>

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