US President Donald Trump’s son Eric Trump was in Dubai in connection with his family business. In May this year, he participated in a cryptocurrency conference. A Chinese businessman was also present in this meeting. This person was associated with cryptocurrency business. It was later revealed that this Chinese businessman is a major partner in the crypto business of the Trump family. According to a Reuters report, the Trump family earns as much revenue from the crypto business as from the real estate, hotel and resort business. Learn how the Trump family’s cryptocurrency business is thriving.
How the Trump family is earning from crypto
According to a person familiar with the Dubai meeting mentioned above, the Trump family’s crypto business is operated through an entity called World Liberty Financial. The institution purchased at least $20 million worth of governance tokens and became part of a project that Eric Trump predicted would soon symbolize the future of finance in the US. According to the person, World Liberty was a fledgling business when Eric Trump called crypto the future of finance in America. The promised cryptocurrency-based financial platform had yet to materialize when it launched in September 2024. Now, the Trump family’s efforts appear to be paying off.
The Trump family’s income has increased dramatically in a year
In the first half of 2024, the Trump Organization had revenue of $51 million, according to Reuters calculations based on official disclosures by the US president, asset records, financial records released in court cases, crypto trading information and other sources. This included the Trump family’s resorts, real estate, crypto trading and other businesses. Of this, the Trump family made only $579,000 from crypto.
Income has increased 17 times this year
In the first half of 2025, the Trump family’s income increased 17 times from the previous year to $864 million. $802 million of total revenue in the first half, or more than 90%, came from Trump’s crypto ventures. This also includes the sale of World Liberty Tokens. This payment of $864 million represents real income, and the cash is flowing freely and clearly into the Trump family’s coffers. The Trump family made $802 million from crypto trading alone. This means that their crypto earnings have grown rapidly in just one year. This clearly shows the growing crypto business of the Trump family, as the first half of 2025 saw a dramatic increase in Trump’s earnings.
Trump family made $800 million from selling cryptocurrencies
According to a Reuters report, the US President’s family made more than $800 million from the sale of crypto assets in the first half of 2025 alone. A person who attended the Dubai meeting said that some people at this small meeting in Dubai were not completely satisfied with the technology proposed by Eric Trump’s team for World Liberty. On June 26, an unnamed entity called Aqua1 Foundation, which claimed to be based in the United Arab Emirates, announced it was purchasing $100 million worth of cryptocurrency tokens from World Liberty. This was the largest known purchase of so-called WLFI tokens at the time.
A Chinese businessman is a major player in the crypto business
Now let’s talk about the Trump family’s Chinese partner. The Chinese businessman who met Eric Trump in Dubai has been identified as Guoren “Bobby” Zhou, who holds executive positions in multiple businesses and is under investigation in the UK for money laundering in a document filed by the UK National Crime Agency and an immigration case at London’s Royal Courts of Justice. Zhou did not directly respond to requests for comment on this Reuters article. In a statement emailed to Reuters, an entity calling itself Aqua Labs Investment LLC said Zhou was its co-founder and described itself as the Abu Dhabi arm of Aqua1 Foundation.
Millions of dollars worth of tokens purchased from Trump family
Zhou’s statement said the Aqua1 Foundation’s investment in World Liberty Token was a business decision that was in line with its focus on advancing a scalable digital-asset ecosystem. Zhou’s ties to the Aqua1 Foundation had never been previously disclosed.
The Aqua1 Foundation did not respond to requests for comment. Neither did Eric Trump. The meeting in Dubai, first reported here, was just one stop on a worldwide investment roadshow launched by President Trump’s two eldest sons – Eric and Donald Trump Jr. – after their father was elected to a second term.
Crypto money is boosting Trump’s other businesses
In Europe, the Middle East and Asia, he is promoting World Liberty and other ventures that funnel investors’ money into Trump family businesses, collectively known as the Trump Organization. The Trump brothers’ efforts have been extremely successful.
According to Reuters estimates, the Trump family’s crypto income in the first half of the year significantly dwarfed that from their traditional businesses – $33 million from the president’s golf clubs and resorts and $23 million from licensing his name to foreign real estate developers. More than half of the Trump family’s income – $463 million – came from the sale of World Liberty Tokens alone. This also includes the proceeds of up to $75 million received from the purchase of Aqua1 tokens. On its website, World Liberty states that an entity of the Trump Organization receives 75% of the revenue from the token sale through its association with World Liberty.
