Trump Official Token Wallet Transfers 31 Million to BitGo Custody in Two Weeks
According to on-chain analyst Onchain Lens, the official TRUMP token team allocation wallet transferred 8.73 million TRUMP to institutional custodian BitGo on September 21, 2026, worth approximately $17.99 million. On-chain data shows that over the past two weeks, this wallet has transferred a total of about 31 million TRUMP to BitGo custody, with a total value of approximately $70.64 million.
The total supply of TRUMP tokens is 1 billion, with a circulating supply of about 273.1 million, accounting for 27.31% of the total supply. Based on the current price, the fully diluted valuation is approximately $2.05 billion. In the token distribution structure, multiple addresses labeled "Creators & CIC Digital" hold about 80% of the supply, jointly held by CIC Digital LLC and Fight Fight Fight LLC, which are associated with the Trump family. The tokens are subject to a linear unlocking mechanism with batch unlocking nodes, with the full unlocking plan expected to continue until around 2028.
The TRUMP token officially launched on January 17, 2025, just two days before the presidential inauguration. On the first day, the price surged from about $6.5 to a peak of $75 by Sunday, before rapidly falling back, dropping below $40 by Tuesday, experiencing a dramatic rise and subsequent halving within just a few days. According to crypto researcher Conor Grogan, the Trump family entities made approximately $58 million in transaction fees on the first day of trading. The token's official website disclosed that most major holders are bound by a three-year unlocking clause, preventing them from selling their entire holdings at once.
BitGo is a regulated institutional-grade digital asset custodian in the U.S. and multiple jurisdictions, primarily providing cold storage and compliant custody services for exchanges, funds, and large holders. The migration of large amounts of tokens from the team allocation wallet to BitGo typically corresponds to the holders organizing assets for subsequent unlocking batches, over-the-counter trading, or compliance audits, rather than directly equating to selling on the open market.
From a market mechanism perspective, the on-chain path shows an "internal transfer from team wallet to regulated custodian" rather than a "transfer from team wallet to exchange address," indicating that this transfer has not yet created direct selling pressure in the secondary market, and TRUMP's price has not experienced significant fluctuations. However, due to the high concentration of holdings among Trump family-related entities, on-chain analysts and traders generally view such bulk transfers to custody as risk management and "pre-sale actions" ahead of unlocking. Only when funds are observed moving from BitGo custody addresses to exchanges will the market interpret it as a true sell signal; for now, the immediate pressure is on the secondary market's expectations of potential selling pressure and retail sentiment, as the Trump family-related holders can manage risk through custody without needing to liquidate in the market immediately.
On-chain data shows that the circulating supply of TRUMP has increased from less than 10% at the launch in early 2025 to the current approximately 27.31%, with the frequency and scale of token transfers from the team wallet to institutional custodians rising in line with the unlocking progress.
Source: Public Information
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The Trump family's historical behavior with the TRUMP token has consistently followed the same pattern: launching the token hastily on January 17, 2025, just two days before the presidential inauguration, retaining about 80% of the supply through associated entities like CIC Digital LLC and Fight Fight Fight LLC, and setting unlocking clauses for over three years; after the price skyrocketed over tenfold on the first day, it quickly halved, with former government ethics office director Walter Shaub publicly criticizing this operation for blurring the lines between "presidential identity" and "personal wealth realization." Subsequently, whenever the unlocking window approaches, the team allocation wallet tends to show bulk fund movements, and this recent continuous transfer to BitGo is a continuation of this established pattern.
This funding path clearly points to "team allocation wallet to institutional custodian BitGo," rather than directly flowing to exchanges, indicating that the short-term motive is more aligned with asset preservation and compliance preparation rather than immediate cashing out; the cumulative transfer of about $70.64 million over two weeks is likely the Trump-related holders preparing for the upcoming unlocking batch by preemptively securing cold storage and private key risk isolation, moving assets that were originally reliant on team holding or multi-signature to a regulated institutional custody framework, thereby reducing risks of theft, operational errors, or "under-the-table dumping" allegations.
This operation is highly similar to practices by the Ethereum Foundation and various public chain foundations that transfer assets to licensed custodians like Coinbase Custody and Anchorage before large token unlocks, essentially seeking a compromise between "on-chain traceable transparency" and "institutional-grade risk control." From an industry cycle perspective, the TRUMP token's current circulating supply is just over a quarter, still in the mid-stage of continuous supply release and testing market absorption capacity, far from entering the fully diluted mature phase.
This phenomenon structurally indicates "capital concentration": when a highly concentrated token (about 80% held by related entities) approaches consecutive unlocking nodes, holders typically do not sell off in the market all at once, but rather first consolidate chips from dispersed individual/team holdings into a few regulated institutional custodians—this action itself is a process of capital moving from opaque private key control to fewer, more concentrated custody nodes. This concentration enhances the operational safety and compliance of individual holders while also implying that once these chips subsequently flow from custodians to exchanges, the market will face a highly concentrated and synchronized source of selling pressure—this is a recurring structural characteristic observed in all "team + related parties" highly controlled tokens during unlocking cycles.
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Funds entering custody do not equal selling, but are certainly pre-sale actions.
The more concentrated the holdings, the more unlocking becomes someone else's risk.
Power creates currency, and token unlocking is trust.