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Crypto billionaire Mike Novogratz isn’t a fan of the controversial Trump memecoin. While speaking at Bitcoin Investor Week on Monday, Novogratz argued that the Trump Administration is “categorically good” for the crypto sector. However, he also bemoaned the impact of Official Trump (TRUMP), which launched in January, days before Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration. “Sometimes you got to take the good with the bad. I was at the Vice President’s Ball and the Crypto Ball first, so you saw lots of the crypto Illuminati. And I mean it was a turd in the punchbowl as soon as that thing got launched. Everyone looked at themselves and was like, ‘Oh that just didn’t happen.’ The group collectively and many people in this room have worked so hard over the last eight years to finally get across the finish line, and that made it feel a little foolish.”  TRUMP is trading at $10.81 at time of writing and is more t...

President Donald Trump could have already inked more than $800 million in income following the launch of his memecoin, according to Coinbase director Conor Grogan. The Official Trump (TRUMP) memecoin launched in mid-January a few days before Trump’s presidential inauguration. It is already the 40th-largest crypto asset by market cap. Grogan notes on the social media platform X that the project’s team has sent $482 million worth of the stablecoin USDC, Solana (SOL) and TRUMP to exchanges. He also says they hold $240 million of USDC in out-of-range liquidity and $50 million in range, and they’ve made $29.3 million in USDC fees. The Coinbase director also says he’s not including the $16 billion worth of TRUMP that the team still holds. “This $800 million+ liquidity event dwarfs even the Bored Ape Otherside launch ($285 million raised +$181 million in burned gas). And I’m not even including the Melania meme launch… Caveats:...