Trump raked in more than $1bn from crypto businesses in 2025, filing shows

Donald Trump raked in more than $1bn from his crypto businesses last year, a federal filing released Monday shows, giving a substantial boost to his annual income. In his second term, the president and his family have heavily invested in digital money and various crypto businesses with Trump announcing at the start of 2025 that he wanted the US to be the “crypto capital of the world”. Trump’s crypto earnings are in addition to profit from his legal settlements, real estate and royalty deals. Many of the president’s crypto ventures were mere startups when he took the oath of office, but now have eclipsed in revenue much of his vast property portfolio that took decades to accumulate. This rise has been fueled by billionaire investors and Trump’s move to quash a federal crackdown on the industry. Trump got more than $500m from his flagship World Liberty Financial business selling new crypto products, including “governance tokens”, according to the required annual disclosure report with the office of government ethics for 2025. The report also showed another crypto business, CIC Digital LLC, which took in more than $600m from sales of souvenir-type “meme” coins stamped with Trump’s face that launched days before his inauguration. “Neither the President nor his family has ever engaged – or will ever engage – in conflicts of interest,” said Anna Kelly, a White House spokesperson. …