Trump earned over $58 million from cryptocurrency ventures in 2024.

Summary

  • Income from cryptocurrencies was one of the main sources of revenue for President Trump in 2024, according to a new document.

  • Only income from Trump's hotel businesses, amounting to $418 million, exceeded his earnings from cryptocurrencies of $58 million last year.

  • This year, however, cryptocurrencies are likely to lead the pack. The president has already raised hundreds of millions with new ventures related to digital assets.

The U.S. president Donald Trump's cryptocurrency assets were his second-largest source of income last year — and this was before he resumed office and earned billions more from the sector at the White House.

According to the annual financial disclosure forms released on Friday by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, Trump earned over $58 million from cryptocurrency ventures in 2024.

The vast majority of this revenue came from the sales of WLFI, the governance token issued by World Liberty Financial, the Trump family's cryptocurrency platform.

This amount made cryptocurrencies the second-largest source of revenue for the president in 2024, according to official documents.

Trump's businesses

The only category that surpassed cryptocurrencies last year was revenue from the president's hospitality businesses. Trump's golf courses, member clubs, and hotels generated a total of $418 million in revenue for the president, according to the document.

A total of $50 million of this revenue came from Mar-a-Lago, Trump's main exclusive members-only club in Palm Beach, Florida.

Although cryptocurrencies lagged behind this significant number last year, 2025 appears destined to see digital assets become the president's primary source of income.

In the months since the end of the reporting period, Trump has gained billions of dollars in realized and unrealized gains from various cryptocurrency projects, including the expansion of World Liberty's offering and his own memecoin TRUMP.

In March, for example, after World Liberty completed its WLFI token sale worth $550 million, Trump and his associates raised about $390 million.

The president's memecoin, which debuted the day before his inauguration in January, is worth $10 billion at the time of publication. Trump and his associates are entitled to 80% of this amount, although those profits have yet to be realized.

What makes Friday's disclosure so remarkable is the fact that digital assets significantly counted among the president's sources of income before his larger profits from cryptocurrencies.

In 2024, cryptocurrencies are likely to surpass one of Trump’s most important revenue-generating sectors: real estate. According to estimates from the president's ethical records, he earned between $24 million and $63 million last year from rent charged on his properties around the world.

Last year, Trump's income from cryptocurrencies also far exceeded the earnings from his historically reliable revenue streams, such as licensing and royalties. Licensing fees for Trump brand projects in far-flung locations like Dubai, India, and Oman brought the president about $34 million in revenue.

Even royalties from Trump brand memorabilia, such as watches, shoes, books, and bibles, represented a fraction of the president's income from cryptocurrencies in 2024.

The president earned just over $11 million from such agreements last year, less than one-fifth of the money he earned from the token sale portion of World Liberty completed before December 31.

In recent months, the president's appetite for cryptocurrency ventures — and his refusal to divest from them while in office — has drawn increasing criticism from lawmakers in both parties.

Congress is currently trying to pass several historic bills on cryptocurrencies, whose fate has recently been threatened by protests against the president’s self-enrichment in the sector.