The once and future first lady, Melania Trump, at a digital art show. Credit: Charly Tribaulleau / AFP / Getty

Two days after her president-elect husband generated potentially tens of billions of dollars with a new meme coin, first-lady-in-waiting Melania Trump launched her own coin Sunday night: MELANIA.

Why it matters: The Trump family became crypto billionaires this weekend, simultaneously raising difficult questions about the boundaries between their official roles and personal profits.

By the numbers: The details on this new coin are sketchier, but we can see that it also has a supply of a billion tokens. It’s not clear how many are on the market now.

  • According to the token’s site, the team is only setting aside 35% for themselves, but it will also only take 13 months for it all to unlock.
  • More than 22,000 wallets held it early Sunday evening, shortly after launch, according to Solscan, a site for checking the details of assets on the Solana blockchain.
  • The meme coin is offered by MKT World, a company associated with the incoming first […]
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