President Donald Trump made more money from crypto last year than from the buildings that made him famous. That is the headline from his latest financial disclosure. The report was filed with
President Donald Trump made more money from crypto last year than from the buildings that made him famous.
That is the headline from his latest financial disclosure.
The report was filed with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics on June 29, 2026, and it covers his earnings during 2025, his first year back in the White House. For decades, Trump’s name has been tied to towers, hotels, and golf courses. The new filing shows a different engine driving his fortune.
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The filing records a $635,068,835 ($635 million approximately) royalty payment under CIC Digital LLC, the company through which Trump licenses his digital products, including the $TRUMP meme coin launched on the Solana blockchain just days before his second inauguration.
The second major source is World Liberty Financial (WLFI), a crypto business co-founded by Trump's sons Eric and Donald Jr. in 2024 that sells digital tokens and runs a stablecoin called USD1, pegged to the U.S. dollar. Trump holds a 38.25% stake through a holding company called DT Marks Defi LLC.
The filing reports token sale proceeds paid across more than a dozen crypto wallets, $236 million on the main token sales line, $150 million from an Ethereum wallet, $56 million from a USDC wallet, $66 million from selling equity, $42 million from a USD wallet, and $33 million from a Bitcoin wallet, among smaller payments. Added together, World Liberty Financial-related income comes to roughly $594 million.
Beyond the tokens, Trump holds Bitcoin and Ethereum in cold storage wallets, offline hardware that keeps crypto secure, each valued at more than $50 million. He earned $1.8 million in Ethereum staking rewards through Coinbase, plus smaller rewards from AAVE, ENA, Move, and Ondo tokens.
In total, verified crypto income from the filing comes to approximately $1.23 billion, a figure Bloomberg confirmed as "at least $1.2 billion."
The filing also captures legal settlements from media lawsuits — $8 million and $16 million from X Corp, $16 million from CBS, $24.5 million from Meta, and $22 million from Alphabet. Combined, they total more than $86 million.
None of this means the real estate disappeared. Properties like 40 Wall Street and 1290 Avenue of the Americas are each worth more than $50 million and still generate millions in rent.
His Turnberry resort in Scotland reported 23.6 million British pounds in hotel and golf revenue. VH Property Corp, which operates his Los Angeles golf course, earned $16.6 million. The Trump International Hotel in Chicago brought in $38.5 million in hotel-related revenue.
Branded products earned money too, including roughly $4.7 million from Trump Watches, about $1.9 million from the Greenwood Bible, $590,000 from a book called Letters to Trump, and $552,000 from A MAGA Journey.
The 927-page disclosure is the most detailed public accounting of Trump's finances since he returned to the presidency.
What it shows is a president whose primary income now flows through digital assets rather than concrete and steel, a shift that has come entirely during a period when his administration has also moved to build a more crypto-friendly regulatory environment in Washington.
The investors who followed him into those ventures have not fared as well. Independent blockchain data shows the vast majority of wallets that bought into the $TRUMP coin are sitting on losses, with roughly 80% of the total token supply still held by Trump-aligned entities under a multi-year vesting schedule.
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