MELANIA Price Drops 7% As Team Offloads $35 Million in Tokens
The MELANIA meme coin team’s sale of $35M worth of tokens and lack of development or utility has fueled skepticism, with the price sliding 59% over 60 days. The project’s future remains uncertain.
Blockchain data shows that the team behind the controversial MELANIA meme coin has sold more than 82.18 million tokens, which constitute 8.22% of its total supply over the past four months.
Meanwhile, the MELANIA price remains in a steady downtrend, exacerbated by a gloomy outlook among meme coins.
MELANIA Team Sold Over 8% of Total Supply in 4 Months
According to on-chain investigator Lookonchain, the tokens were distributed through 44 separate wallets. Further, the team sold these meme coins in a way designed to avoid detection by dumping directly onto exchanges.
The sales, primarily by strategically adding and removing liquidity rather than placing open market sell orders, netted the team 244,934 SOL. At current Solana prices, $145.68 as of this writing, this is worth approximately $35.68 million.
The #Melania meme team sold 82.18M $MELANIA(8.22% of total supply) over the past 4 months across 44 wallets, cashing out 244,934 $SOL($35.76M).Most of the $MELANIA tokens were sold through adding and removing liquidity.https://t.co/EJYWtbB5aE pic.twitter.com/gtmRdkNq1y
— Lookonchain (@lookonchain) June 25, 2025
The pattern is concerning, raising questions about transparency and tokenomics, especially given the project’s lack of ongoing development.
More concerning, the MELANIA project’s documentation makes no effort to pretend otherwise. Its official terms state that the token has “no functionality,” and there are no plans to reinvest proceeds into product development, user engagement, or ecosystem growth.
This effectively positions MELANIA token as a pure meme coin play with zero utility, making its sustained market capitalization of $127 million all the more surprising.
The project announced a promising partnership with top market maker Wintermute in early June.
MELANIA Meme (https://t.co/S2km4bxIMT) ($MELANIA) has entered into an agreement with Wintermute to provide liquidity.Holders will notice movement of the $MELANIA tokens to new wallets.Further, the $MELANIA team is launching a new website for $MELANIA.
— MelaniaMeme (@TrueMELANIAmeme) June 3, 2025
Data from EmberCN revealed that 150 million MELANIA tokens, valued at around $50 million then, were moved from the community wallet to new addresses, including 20 million tokens sent to Wintermute’s wallet.
The goal was to boost liquidity, reduce price slippage, and create a more stable trading environment.
Wintermute Partnership Boosted Liquidity—But Couldn’t Stop the Slide
While the Wintermute deal did improve liquidity across platforms, it failed to halt the downward momentum. Over the past 60 days, MELANIA has fallen by 59%, despite occasional recovery attempts.
At the time of writing, CoinGecko lists the token at $0.2069, down 7% in the last 24 hours and at an all-time low since its January 19 debut.
MELANIA Price Performance. Source:
CoinGecko
Community skepticism has grown in parallel with the token sales. Many traders, initially drawn in by the high-profile branding and viral marketing strategy, are now questioning the long-term viability of a project whose team is aggressively liquidating holdings while contributing little to no technical innovation.
“The Trump token wrecked the entire crypto market when it was on an upward swing. Almost everything was diverted to Trump token, and then the insiders cashed out bigly. Then came the Melania token to put icing on the cake,” one user remarked.
Still, the project remains one of the more visible PolitiFi meme coins. Some analysts argue that its ability to attract major liquidity partners like Wintermute suggests existing institutional interest in the meme coin sector, at least from a market-making standpoint.
BeInCrypto also reported concerns around market makers, amid controversy over whether they are acting as stabilizing forces or exploiting their position for massive profits at the expense of retail investors.
However, without a roadmap or utility, MELANIA’s recent cash-outs may be a sign of top-heavy token control rather than ecosystem maturity. Unless there’s a shift in project direction or community governance, the token’s future may depend more on sentiment cycles than substance.
Disclaimer: The content of this article solely reflects the author's opinion and does not represent the platform in any capacity. This article is not intended to serve as a reference for making investment decisions.
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