- LAPTOP will launch on Base with a total supply of 1 billion tokens.
- The project will airdrop tokens to selected TRUMP investors and eligible users.
- Up to 30% of LAPTOP tokens could be burned through preset events.
Hunter Biden, son of former U.S. President Joe Biden, will launch the LAPTOP memecoin on Base on September 9. The project ties a political controversy to the growing market for political cryptocurrencies while targeting traders who lost money on Donald Trump’s TRUMP token.
LAPTOP will have a 1 billion supply, with allocations for founders, airdrops, liquidity, charities, and other uses. Its tokenomics will also tie part of the supply to political and cryptocurrency market events.
LAPTOP Targets Trump Memecoin Investors
According to a report from The Wall Street Journal on Sept. 7, the project takes its name from the Hunter Biden laptop controversy that emerged during the 2020 U.S. election. The token launch will be on Base, an Ethereum layer-2 network developed by Coinbase, amid continued growth in political-themed cryptocurrency projects.
LAPTOP will have a total supply of 1 billion tokens, with 30% allocated to its founding team. That allocation will remain locked for six months before gradually unlocking over two years.
Another 20% will fund two airdrops targeting selected recipients. The group includes traders who lost money on Donald Trump’s TRUMP memecoin, alongside Hunter Biden’s Substack subscribers and other eligible participants.
The project has not yet disclosed specific snapshot dates or claim windows for the planned airdrops. The move follows significant losses among TRUMP investors, with blockchain data showing hundreds of thousands of wallets remained underwater after purchasing the token.
TRUMP launched before Trump’s January 2025 inauguration and initially recorded a sharp rally. However, the token later surrendered most of those gains as speculative demand weakened.
LAPTOP Introduces Event-Based Token Burns
LAPTOP’s tokenomics will connect its supply to political and cryptocurrency market developments. Up to 30% of the total supply could be burned if predetermined conditions are met.
Reported triggers include Bitcoin reaching a new all-time high, LAPTOP surpassing TRUMP in fully diluted valuation, and Democrats winning the 2028 presidential election. If specified conditions are not achieved, the associated tokens would instead be directed toward charitable causes.
The structure gives political developments and market performance a direct role in LAPTOP’s supply mechanics. Consequently, the project introduces an unusual mechanism for managing its future token supply.
TRUMP Decline Sets the Market Backdrop
The LAPTOP launch comes as TRUMP remains far below its January 2025 peak. TRUMP reached an all-time high of $74.27 on January 19, 2025, before falling to around $1.68 by July 2026.
A Reuters investigation report in June estimated that more than 1 million investors had accumulated approximately $2.3 billion in combined realized and unrealized losses. Meanwhile, Trump-linked crypto ventures have expanded into other digital-asset sectors.
World Liberty Financial’s USD1 stablecoin had reached roughly $4 billion in market capitalization by August 2026. As a result, LAPTOP enters an established political crypto market while directly referencing Trump’s memecoin ecosystem.
Even so, Investors face uncertainty because detailed documentation, airdrop mechanics, and other launch information remain limited ahead of September 9.
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