
{"id":37247,"date":"2025-01-20T06:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T06:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=37247"},"modified":"2025-01-20T06:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T06:05:08","slug":"donald-trumps-ethereum-buying-spree-does-little-for-eth-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=37247","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump\u2019s Ethereum Buying Spree Does Little for ETH Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump family\u2019s decentralized finance project, World Liberty Financial, has been buying more Ethereum recently.<\/p>\n<p>According to Lookonchain, the project address spent a total of $48 million in USDC to buy 14,403 ETH at $3,333 per coin over the past 12 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The DeFi platform now holds 33,629 ETH worth almost $110 million, which is by far its largest holding, followed by $63 million USDT, <a href=\"https:\/\/intel.arkm.com\/explorer\/entity\/worldlibertyfi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to Arkham Intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s World Liberty(<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/worldlibertyfi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@worldlibertyfi<\/a>) continues to buy <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24ETH&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$ETH<\/a>, spending a total of 48M <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24USDC&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$USDC<\/a> to buy 14,403 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24ETH&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$ETH<\/a> at $3,333 in the past 12 hours.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wi54dG9Rok\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/wi54dG9Rok<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LZCZokB5sT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/LZCZokB5sT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lookonchain (@lookonchain) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lookonchain\/status\/1881140019504742762?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 20, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n\n<h2>Trump Bullish on ETH<\/h2>\n<p>The move was observed by Ethereum educator and community member Anthony Sassano, who said, \u201cTrump bought around 5,000 ETH today, which brings his total holdings to around 18,700 ETH,\u201d before <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sassal0x\/status\/1881118423578775799\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">adding<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re bearish on ETH while the US president continues to increase his stack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ethereum developer Eric Connor also highlighted the President-elect\u2019s Ethereum buying spree.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump just bought $20mn in ETH <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ww8tXFrMKd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/Ww8tXFrMKd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 eric.eth (@econoar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/econoar\/status\/1880985566944301108?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 19, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>According to Arkham, Trump\u2019s personal wallet <a href=\"https:\/\/intel.arkm.com\/explorer\/entity\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contains<\/a> 496 ETH worth around $1.62 million, in addition to 483 wrapped ETH and a bunch of <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/is-official-trump-trump-a-boon-or-bane-for-crypto-markets\/\">meme coins<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The World Liberty Financial project team announced that the token sale had ended on Jan. 20, with a sales target of 20% of the total supply reached.\u00a0It <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/worldlibertyfi\/status\/1881164477262930130\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">added<\/a> that it would offer a further 5 billion WLFI tokens up for sale \u201cDue to massive demand and overwhelming interest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The DeFi governance token is not available to trade on exchanges because it is non-transferable and has no economic value, according to the official website.<\/p>\n<p>It was also reported that the Trump family has been buying up <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/ethereum-bulls-eye-20k-despite-recent-slump-and-supply-inflation\/\">Ethereum<\/a> domain names.<\/p>\n\n<p>BREAKING: Donald Trump Family DeFi Project (World Liberty) have just purchased ETHEREUM addresses:<\/p>\n<p>TrumpCoin.eth<br \/>\nWorld Liberty.eth<br \/>\nEricTrump.eth<br \/>\nBarronTrump.eth<\/p>\n<p>Notice that they bought \u201cTrump Coin\u201d which could imply my Speculatiev Prophecy may come\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/t7kRlffsyQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/t7kRlffsyQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 yourfriendSOMMI  (@yourfriendSOMMI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yourfriendSOMMI\/status\/1881194771861111089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 20, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n\n<h2>No Love for ETH Prices<\/h2>\n<p>Despite the clearly bullish action of a US president\u2019s crypto project buying Ethereum, there has still been very little momentum on spot markets.<\/p>\n<p>ETH prices are down 5% over the past 12 hours falling from $3,440 to around $3,260 at the time of writing during the Monday morning Asian trading session.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the asset has failed to follow Bitcoin and many of the altcoins that rallied last week. ETH has done very little since it last tapped $4,000 in early December and remains lackluster and the target of continued FUD on social media despite the bullish developments.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the ETH\/BTC ratio fell to its lowest level for almost 4 years over the weekend when it hit 0.030, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tradingview.com\/symbols\/ETHBTC\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to Tradingview.<\/p>\n<p>BREAKING : Ethereum<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24ETH&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$ETH<\/a> plunging to its lowest valuation relative to Bitcoin <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24BTC&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$BTC<\/a> since March 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/itvpN9Wyzp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/itvpN9Wyzp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Barchart (@Barchart) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Barchart\/status\/1880912261189108009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 19, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>However, Donald Trump\u2019s inauguration today and the performance of crypto derivatives could push ETH prices back toward the $4,000 level, <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/ethereum-eth-sets-the-stage-for-a-major-price-rally-key-insights-to-watch\/\">according<\/a> to analysts.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/donald-trumps-ethereum-buying-spree-does-little-for-eth-prices\/\">Donald Trump\u2019s Ethereum Buying Spree Does Little for ETH Prices<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/\">CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump family\u2019s decentralized finance project, World Liberty Financial, has been buying more Ethereum recently. According to Lookonchain, the project address spent a total of $48 million in USDC to buy 14,403 ETH at $3,333 per coin over the past 12 hours. The DeFi platform now holds 33,629 ETH worth almost $110 million, which is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":37248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}