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The disclosure that U.S. President Donald Trump reported transactions involving Coinbase, Robinhood, and Bitcoin mining stocks has reignited a fierce debate in Washington surrounding cryptocurrency-friendly policies and personal investment interests.
According to Decrypt on May 15 (local time), U.S. President Donald Trump reported securities transactions, including those related to cryptocurrency stocks, in two 278-T disclosure forms submitted to the U.S. Office of Government Ethics. The forms were submitted on Thursday, covering securities purchases or sales exceeding $1,000 made in his name, his spouse's, or a dependent's.
The disclosure forms contained over 100 pages detailing more than 3,000 securities transactions. Decrypt reported that Trump was assessed and paid a late filing fee related to these disclosures. While the exact amounts of individual transactions were not disclosed, the reported ranges varied from $1,001 to $15,000 up to $1 million to $5 million.
The largest transactions were concentrated in major U.S. publicly traded companies such as Nvidia (NVDA) and Amazon (AMZN), but cryptocurrency-related stock trades were also identified. Decrypt stated that a purchase of shares in U.S. cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase (COIN) on February 10 was reported in the $100,001 to $500,000 range. Approximately one month later, an additional purchase of Coinbase shares in the $50,001 to $100,000 range was also registered.
The purchase of Robinhood (HOOD) shares was also mentioned as a major item among cryptocurrency-related transactions. A Robinhood stock purchase on March 17 was reported as the only other crypto-related stock transaction exceeding $100,000. Buy and sell transactions involving Bitcoin (BTC) mining companies Mara Holdings (MARA) and Cleanspark (CLSK) were also included in the disclosures, but the transaction amounts were relatively smaller, falling within the $15,001 to $50,000 range.
Trump and his family are already under scrutiny regarding cryptocurrency-related policies, memecoins, and DeFi businesses. Decrypt reported that there were claims of the Trump family's crypto-related interests exceeding $1 billion by October 2025. A spokesperson for The Trump Organization stated, “President Trump’s investment holdings are exclusively managed through fully discretionary accounts independently operated by third-party financial institutions, which have sole and exclusive authority over all investment decisions.”
The spokesperson further stated, “President Trump, his family, and The Trump Organization play no role in selecting, directing, or approving specific investments.” Decrypt noted that language restricting personal cryptocurrency business for the president was a key point of tension during the passage of the U.S. crypto market structure bill. However, the bill passed the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday without a definitive agreement on ethics provisions.
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