Hunter Biden is turning his laptop into a crypto token called LAPTOP, set to launch Wednesday on Base, a blockchain built by Coinbase.
The Wall Street Journal reported the plan, which takes aim at President Donald Trump. Nearly a third of the coins go to the founders, Hunter Biden among them.
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Why the Coin Is Called LAPTOP
The laptop is real, and a court has said so. Hunter Biden left it at a repair shop in Wilmington, Delaware, in 2018. Its contents spread online before the 2020 election and fed years of attacks on his overseas business deals.
In 2024, federal prosecutors used the same machine against him. An FBI agent testified that the serial number matched Apple’s records. His lawyers argued the data was altered. The judge admitted it anyway.
The coin arrives late, seeing as Joe Biden left office in January 2025, and the Trump family got there first. BeInCrypto reported that Barron Trump’s crypto fortune reached about $150 million by late 2025.
Biden has been warming to crypto in public. In recent posts on X he called decentralized digital currencies the inevitable future. He also weighed into the fight between World Liberty Financial, the Trump family venture, and the entrepreneur Justin Sun.
The launch lands inside a weeks-long media run. Biden, 56, has been on podcasts, news shows and his own Substack, at times beside right-wing hosts.
Who Actually Gets the Coins
The 20% aimed at TRUMP losers is not only for them. It goes out in two batches, the Journal reported:
- Wallets of people who lost money on TRUMP get a share.
- Subscribers to Biden’s Substack and a mailing list curated by his friend Andrew Callaghan, a video journalist.
That makes the airdrop a payout to his own audience as much as a rescue for Trump’s buyers.
The final 20% is broader than charity too. It also covers liquidity for exchange partners and market makers. Some goes to the foundation behind the token, which pays its legal and accounting bills.
The 30% Burn Is a Long Shot
Supply is 1 billion tokens. Founders hold 30%, locked for six months and fully vested in two years. Two blocks of 20% cover the airdrops and the token’s own costs.
The burn is the pitch, as up to 30% of supply can be destroyed, but only if 30 set events land the right way. Three of the named ones are hard.
- One is a Democratic win in 2028.
- Another is a new record for Bitcoin (BTC), which trades near $78,780 against a peak of $126,080 set last October. That is a 60% climb from here.
- The third is steeper than it sounds. LAPTOP has to beat TRUMP on fully diluted value, and TRUMP’s sits near $2.26 billion.
LAPTOP would need roughly 3.7 times TRUMP’s current market value, or about $2.26 a coin.
TRUMP is the warning, seeing as it trades near $2.26, about 97% below its January 2025 peak of $73.43. The Journal put its top market value at close to $15 billion, against roughly $617 million now.
BeInCrypto found every Trump-endorsed token now trades roughly 60% below its pre-endorsement price.
The Rule That Would Not Cover Him
Trump’s crypto income is on the record. His latest financial disclosures showed $1.4 billion from his meme coin and crypto deals last year, the Journal reported.
Congress has tried to draw a line. The Clarity Act would set one rulebook for digital assets. It has stalled partly over wording that would stop officials and their families from profiting from crypto.
That wording would not reach Hunter Biden. His father left office in January 2025.
No contract address is public yet, and scammers have run this play before. In February 2025, a hacked World Liberty Financial account pushed a fake BARRON meme coin.
It kept trading even after the scam was exposed. Until Hunter Biden or his team posts an address, treat every LAPTOP you see as fake.
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