Hunter Biden to launch LAPTOP meme, stokes Trump family rivalry with airdrop plans
Hunter Biden is part of the founding team behind a new meme coin called LAPTOP, set to go live on the Coinbase-built Base network on Sept. 9 with one billion tokens.
A portion of the supply is reportedly reserved for traders who lost money on President Donald Trump’s TRUMP coin.
Cashing in on TRUMP losses
The LAPTOP team, which Hunter Biden is a part of, has pledged that out of its one billion supply, 20% is earmarked for two airdrop rounds. Notably, the LAPTOP name references the laptop saga that dogged Biden through the 2020 campaign.
Individuals who took a loss on TRUMP are eligible for the drop, but so are Substack subscribers of Biden, his friends, and people on a mailing list kept by video journalist Andrew Callaghan.
Nansen data reported by TechCrunch in July found that 988,905 wallets, roughly two in three TRUMP buyers, were down a combined $3.81 billion by the end of June.
TRUMP debuted three days before Trump’s January 2025 inauguration, spiked toward $75, then crashed rapidly. The president, for his part, disclosed $636 million tied to the coin and at least $1.4 billion in crypto income for 2025.
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