Source: Twitter @Chainalysis; Compiled by Deng Tong, Golden Finance
While most wallets holding $TRUMP are retail buyers who roughly break even, about 50 whales have realized profits of more than $10 million at the wallet level. What else can we know by analyzing $TRUMP and $MELANIA on the chain?
Chainalysis Reactor shows that after 1 billion $TRUMP tokens were minted, 4 wallets received most of the funds for holding or providing liquidity to exchanges.
As of yesterday, most wallets holding $TRUMP and/or $MELANIA were worth less than $100, indicating retail buying activity. But there are also several wallets holding more than $100 million.
Further indicating the popularity among retail investors, over 80% of $TRUMP and/or $MELANIA holders are investors who hold less than $1,000 worth of assets on Solana.
These are mainly new retail buyers. About 50% of $TRUMP and/or $MELANIA token holders have never purchased Solana altcoins (tokens on the Solana blockchain, excluding $SOL and stablecoins). Nearly half of the buyers created a wallet on the day they purchased the tokens.
In terms of profits, as of January 21, more than 77% of wallets holding $TRUMP had earned less than $100, but 60 whales had earned more than $10 million.
Whales dominate - as of yesterday, about 40 whales hold more than $10 million in $TRUMP/ $MELANIA tokens, accounting for 94% of the $TRUMP or $MELANIA token holdings.
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