Trump Hosts Another Meme Coin Party, VIP Access Price Dropped by 90%

President Donald Trump is set to host another in-person event Same angle Owners later this month at Mar-a-Lago, but perhaps in a sign of the times, the price to attend is much lower than it was last year.

The team behind President Trump SolanaThe TRUMP-based token, which trades as TRUMP, finalized its attendance list on Tuesday, with a guest list based on a leaderboard tied to token holdings and other factors.

Last time, a select group of attendees achieved “VIP” status by each collecting millions of dollars worth of tokens. But landing a VIP title at President Trump’s final event, a luncheon and conference for the top titleholders, cost about 90% less this time around — down from about $3 million to about $300,000.

VIP status, the top level of access to the event, gives attendees a private “meet and learn” experience with “star” attendees like Tether’s Paolo Ardoino, retired boxer Mike Tyson, and Ark Invest’s Cathie Wood. This additional reward, along with access to a luncheon with President Trump, was awarded to the top 29 registered Trump holders who earned points based on time-weighted holdings of the token from March 12 to April 14.

Based on available chain holder data compared to Trump memes The ultimate team leaderboardAt least one account that achieved VIP status and ranked 12th overall — a Solana address starting with “Ciz7y” — never held more than 114,212 TRUMP tokens during the snapshot period that lasted more than a month.

This amount, now worth around $318,000, peaked at around $473,000 when the token traded at $4.14 on March 15.

Other VIPs, e.g Solana address “2ciorM”, About 102,000 TRUMP tokens were transferred on March 12 and have not made any further moves. These tokens, now worth $283,000, were good enough for the title to be ranked 17th, well above the VIP cap.

These amounts are significantly lower than those seen in last year’s initial exclusive event for Trump meme holders, where each of the top finalists held millions of dollars’ worth of tokens to earn VIP status, which grants exclusive benefits. The last VIP holder for last May’s event, Rank 25had approximately $3 million worth of TRUMP tokens around the time of the snapshot.

At that time, I got VIP access to the first TRUMP meme concert It required about $4.78 million worth of the president’s official currency, on average. Top holder – and The account named “Sun” which Tron founder Justin Sun confirmed was his– The group was boosted by owning about $19 million in Trump at the time of the shot last year.

Founder of Tron, who earlier this week He has publicly criticized the Trump family’s World Liberty Financial business— a separate cryptocurrency project, was once again the top holder on this year’s meme leaderboard.

But this time, his account is only worth about $9.3 million, as the price of the Trump token has fallen sharply from its highs. It maintains a balance of about 3.3 million TRUMP tokens, or 1.4 million more tokens than the first time.

Currently, the official Trump token recently traded around $2.80, down 29% in the past month and Now 96% off at an all-time high $73.43 was achieved shortly after launch. Code briefly It jumped about 40% after the announcement from the most recent in-person event, but has since erased those gains.

In comparison, during last year’s exclusive event, the token closed snapshot day trading at around $13.08 – roughly 370% higher than its current trading price.

This time, token holders were also awarded 10 points for every dollar spent on purchasing Trump-branded merchandise — such as hats and watches — during the token’s holding period, something that cannot be calculated using on-chain data.

This bonus could have made a big difference for some potential VIPs, but other than that, it appears holders will need to spend much less on Trump tokens this year to gain special access.

Trump’s coin dinner last year drew scrutiny from Democratic lawmakers, who… He called for an ethics investigation into the invitation. It is known that Senator Elizabeth Warren called “Orgy of corruption” event Claiming that people could use it to buy access to the president.

This year’s Mar-a-Lago event will require attendees to pass a background check, ensuring they are not residents of a KYC watchlist country. According to the terms and conditions, the event scheduled to be held on April 25 may be canceled for any reason, and President Trump’s attendance is not guaranteed.

If Trump cannot attend, or the event does not take place, attendees will receive a Trump-themed NFT.