{"id":10113,"date":"2026-07-01T19:56:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T19:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/?p=10113"},"modified":"2026-07-01T19:56:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T19:56:55","slug":"melania-trump-nft-earnings-surge-28x-in-2025-as-first-lady-rakes-in-nearly-17-million-in-total-earnings-filing-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/?p=10113","title":{"rendered":"Melania Trump NFT earnings surge 28x in 2025 as First Lady rakes in nearly $17 million in total earnings, filing shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2280109035-e1782926122424.jpg?w=2048\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Melania Trump made 28 times greater income from NFTs in 2025 than in the year before, according to the 2026 annual federal disclosure report. Of her roughly $17 million in total earnings, she raked in $6 million from the digital collectibles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under the page of the report listing her assets and income, the report states Melania Trump earned over $10.7 million from the \u201cMelania\u201d film, over $6 million from the sale of NFTs and other collectibles, and over half a million from her \u201cMelania\u201d memoir.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new report arrives in a wave of federally required financial disclosures that reveal a stunningly large amount of crypto-related holdings for the Trump family. The president and his sons alone added over $2 billion to the family coffers through their crypto ventures.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The First Lady has launched multiple NFT collections over the past five years, with the previous disclosure report showing she made $216,710.74 from them in 2024, meaning that 2025\u2019s figure was roughly 28 times larger.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Melania announced the launch of her first NFT \u201cMelania\u2019s Vision\u201d\u00a0 \u2013 a watercolor of her eyes \u2013 in December 2021, only available for purchase for the second half of that month. She said a portion of the proceeds would go toward children aging out of foster care. It cost $150.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her next NFT collection, \u201cHead of State\u201d, sold at auction for $180,000 in January 2022, but <em>Bloomberg<\/em> reported the blockchain evidence suggesting the transaction came from Melania\u2019s wallet instead of another buyer. The opening bid for the NFT was $250,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her \u201cPOTUS TRUMP\u201d NFT Collection also launched in 2022, priced at $50 each, to commemorate \u201cimportant moments in our Nation\u2019s history,\u201d according to Melania, and she launched a similar USA themed collection in June 2023 with the same price tag.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Trump Organization and the White House did not immediately respond to Fortune\u2019s requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her website currently lists a Digital Collectibles section with sold-out NFTs: On The Move, The MetaRose, Women\u2019s History Month Collection, Head Of State, and Melania\u2019s Vision.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flex flex-col layout-gap-md\">\n<div class=\"not-prose empty:contents [:has(*[data-empty=true])]:hidden clear-both\">\n<div class=\"typography-level-4 mt-4 font-graphik-compact [&amp;_*_a]:hover:underline\" data-cy=\"subscriptionPlea\"><span class=\"description-parser contents\" data-cy=\"description\"><strong>Subscribe to\u00a0Fortune Gulf Brief<\/strong>. Every Tuesday, this new newsletter delivers clear-eyed, authoritative intelligence on the deals, decisions, policies, and power shifts shaping one of the world\u2019s most consequential regions, written for the people who need to act on it. <strong>Sign up here.<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Melania #Trump #NFT #earnings #surge #28x #Lady #rakes #million #total #earnings #filing #shows<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melania Trump made 28 times greater income from NFTs in 2025 than in the year before, according to the 2026 annual federal disclosure report. 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