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Hunter Biden’s crypto scheme $LAPTOP crashes shortly after launch

Thu 10 September 2026 10:08, UK

Hunter Biden has had an unsuccessful debut on the crypto market with his memecoin, named for the laptop that made him an internet talking point for years.

After a well-publicised official rollout for the memecoin, which included a Wall Street Journal feature dedicated to cryptocurrency, hopes were high for the project. Biden himself said that the project was intended to help “each other and our country to get back up.”

This optimism continued into the coin’s immediate release. $LAPTOP reached an intraday high of $190.81 a token, with some tracking platforms recording highs of up to $401 a token.

Biden stressed that he viewed $LAPTOP as a force for good within the world of crypto, and specifically aimed the coin at those who’d been burned by the Trump family’s attempts to infiltrate the crypto market.

In fact, 20 per cent of the tokens were airdropped specifically into wallets that had lost money on the $TRUMP coin, which has lost 75 per cent of its value in the past year despite the man who gave the coin its name promising to make the US “the crypto capital of the world” on his return to office last year.