MELANIA Memecoin
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$MELANIA is a Solana-based memecoin launched on January 19, 2025 by MKT World LLC, a Florida company linked to First Lady Melania Trump, one day before her husband's presidential inauguration. The token reached a peak market capitalization of approximately $1.6–1.73 billion before losing roughly 99% of its all-time high value; as of June 2026 it trades near $0.09. A class action lawsuit filed in the Southern District of New York (Hurlock v. Kelsier Ventures, amended October 2025) alleges that Kelsier Ventures CEO Hayden Davis and Meteora co-founder Benjamin Chow orchestrated a pre-engineered pump-and-dump scheme across at least 15 tokens, using Melania Trump's name as 'window dressing' without her alleged knowledge of the insider mechanics.
Connected Entities
28 entities · 60 linked investigations- FUAfBo…xM1P→mentioned with→MELANIA Memecoin(50%)
- Kelsier Ventures→mentioned with→Meteora(70%)
- Kelsier Ventures→mentioned with→Solana(80%)
- Meteora / Benjamin Chow→mentioned with→Solana(80%)
- Meteora / Benjamin Chow→mentioned with→Jupiter Exchange(80%)
- Meteora / Benjamin Chow→mentioned with→Meteora(80%)
- Hayden Davis→mentioned with→Meteora / Benjamin Chow(85%)
- Hayden Davis→mentioned with→Solana(65%)
- Hayden Davis→mentioned with→Meteora(60%)
- Coinbase→mentioned with→Bitcoin(65%)
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Live On-Chain Activity
1 address watched · via HeliusTimeline(17 events)
17 January 2025
$TRUMP memecoin launches on Solana, two days before $MELANIA. Context for the rapid celebrity-memecoin environment into which $MELANIA launched.
DL News19 January 2025
Approximately 24 wallets purchase $2.6 million of $MELANIA within 2.5 minutes before the public announcement, per Financial Times on-chain analysis.
Fortune / Financial Times19 January 2025
Melania Trump posts '$MELANIA is live' on X and Truth Social. Token launches publicly on Solana. Price surges approximately 550% from ~$2.00 to ~$12.95.
DL News20 January 2025
$MELANIA reaches all-time high of approximately $13.05–$13.73 and peak market cap of approximately $1.6–$1.73 billion. Pre-launch insider wallets begin selling; 81% of insider sales execute within 12 hours of launch.
Finance Magnates / CoinGecko14 February 2025
Argentine President Javier Milei promotes $LIBRA on X. The token, also created by Hayden Davis and Kelsier Ventures, collapses approximately 90–95% within hours, triggering a scandal that draws scrutiny to Davis's earlier work on $MELANIA.
Fortune17 February 2025
Hayden Davis gives interview to Coffeezilla, acknowledging he launched both $MELANIA and $LIBRA and that his team 'sniped' both tokens at contract deployment. Davis offers a defensive-sniping justification.
CoinDesk17 February 2025
Benjamin Chow resigns from Meteora following the LIBRA controversy. Chow states he held no tokens and had no insider information.
CryptoNews27 February 2025
SEC Division of Corporation Finance issues staff statement concluding memecoins of the described type are not securities under federal law. Commissioner Crenshaw dissents.
SEC.gov13 March 2025
Argentine prosecutor Gregorio Dalbón files a motion requesting a judge issue an Interpol Red Notice for Hayden Davis, citing him as a principal actor behind $LIBRA and noting flight risk due to financial resources.
Fortune / CoinDesk15 April 2025
Bubblemaps publishes on-chain analysis reporting 50 million $MELANIA tokens (~$30 million) moved from community fund to insider wallets (address 'Cq2Tj6'). Token price has fallen approximately 96% from ATH. Team-linked wallets reportedly control ~92% of total supply.
Decrypt / CryptoTimesMay 2025
Burwick Law files initial class action complaint in the Southern District of New York on behalf of retail investors in $MELANIA and related tokens.
Fortune7 May 2025
Fortune and Financial Times investigations publish findings that approximately 24 wallets purchased $2.6 million of $MELANIA before the launch announcement, generating approximately $99.6 million in profits.
FortuneAugust 2025
Court orders $57.6 million in USDC — previously frozen in the Hurlock v. Kelsier Ventures case — to be unfrozen. Reporting indicates the judge expressed skepticism about plaintiffs' likelihood of success.
Yahoo FinanceOctober 2025
Melania Trump's X account posts an AI-generated video promoting $MELANIA with the text 'Into the Future.' Token price rises approximately 12% before reversing.
CoinTribune23 October 2025
Burwick Law files Second Amended Class Action Complaint in Hurlock v. Kelsier Ventures, naming Benjamin Chow, Hayden Davis, and family members as defendants. Complaint alleges 15-token fraud 'factory' and cites anonymous whistleblower and text messages from Davis.
Fortune2026
$MELANIA surges approximately 50% amid anticipation of an Amazon Prime Video documentary about Melania Trump, temporarily outperforming Bitcoin and Dogecoin in percentage terms before gains partially reverse.
BenzingaJune 2026
$MELANIA trades near $0.09 USD with market cap approximately $86–$92 million, approximately 99% below the January 2025 all-time high. Hurlock v. Kelsier Ventures class action remains ongoing; no criminal indictments publicly confirmed.
CoinGecko (live data)Decision Log
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This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain (1 decision). 25 of 26 cited source URLs have an Internet Archive snapshot.
model: claude-sonnet-4-6
generated: 6/2/2026, 11:34:16 PM
last updated: 6/2/2026, 11:34:16 PM
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