Trump Is Hosting Another Meme Coin Gala—The Price for VIP Access Is Down 90%

In brief

• VIPs for the latest TRUMP meme coin event at Mar-a-Lago held considerably less than the first exclusive event.
• While VIPs averaged $4.7 million in TRUMP tokens last event, some earned VIP status with around $300,000 worth of TRUMP tokens this year.
• TRUMP is down about 96% from its all-time high, recently changing hands at $2.79. President Donald Trump is set to host another in-person event for his meme coin holders later this month at Mar-a-Lago, but in perhaps a sign of times, the price to attend is considerably lower than it was last year. The team behind President Trump’s Solana-based token, which trades as TRUMP, finalized the list of attendees on Tuesday, with the guest list based on a leaderboard tied to token holdings and other factors. Last time around, a select group of attendees attained “VIP” status by each amassing millions of dollars’ worth of the tokens. But earning the VIP label for President Trump’s latest event, a luncheon and conference to be held for top holders, cost roughly 90% less this time around—down from approximately $3 million to around $300,000. VIP status, the top level of access for the event, grants attendees a private “meet and learn” experience with “superstar” attendees like Tether’s Paolo Ardoino, retired boxer Mike Tyson, and Ark Invest’s Cathie Wood. That bonus reward, beyond access to the luncheon with President Trump, was granted 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 on-chain holder data compared to the Trump meme team’s final leaderboard, at least one account that earned VIP status and ranked 12th overall—a Solana address beginning in “Ciz7y”—never held more than 114,212 TRUMP tokens during the more than month-long snapshot period. That amount, now worth around $318,000, peaked at about $473,000 when the token traded at $4.14 on March 15.  Other VIPs, like Solana address “2ciorM,” transferred in around 102,000 TRUMP tokens on March 12 and made no other moves. Those tokens, now valued at $283,000, were good enough to rank the address 17th, well above the VIP cutoff.  Those sums are dramatically smaller than those seen for last year’s initial exclusive event for Trump meme coin holders, where the top finalists each held millions of dollars’ worth of tokens to earn VIP status, which conferred exclusive benefits. The final VIP holder for last May’s event, , had nearly $3 million worth of TRUMP tokens around the time of the snapshot.  At that time, gaining VIP access to the first TRUMP meme coin gala . The top holder—an —buoyed the group by possessing around $19 million in TRUMP at the time of the snapshot last year.