Hunter Biden’s LAPTOP Burns $3.5M After Eric Trump and Beeple Mentions

Published:Sep 12, 2026, 8:30 AM EDTHunter Biden’s LAPTOP Burns $3.5M After Eric Trump and Beeple Mentions

Two public mentions, one from Eric Trump and one from digital artist Beeple, resolved the first bets written into Hunter Biden’s LAPTOP memecoin and permanently destroyed 10 million tokens worth about $3.56 million.

WRITTEN BYShiraz JagatiSHAREPublished: Sep 12, 2026, 8:30 AM EDT

Key Takeaways

• LAPTOP burned 10 million tokens, 1% of its 1 billion supply, after two predictions resolved yes.
• Hunter Biden’s token now trades near $0.38, down 99.8% from its $199.51 peak on Sept. 9.
• The 28 open LAPTOP predictions hold just under 30% of supply, several resolving on the November 2026 midterms.

The Bet Baked Into the Token

LAPTOP doesn’t work like an ordinary memecoin, with thirty percent of its 1 billion supply being attached to 30 public predictions about real-world political outcomes, and every one of those allocations has two possible endings. If the event resolves yes, the tokens are burned, and if the opposite scenario plays out, the same tokens are routed to charity instead.

Another fifth of the supply was reserved for community airdrops, aimed at wallets that had already bought the official TRUMP memecoin.

The list of wagers is deliberately provocative, covering scenarios such as:

• Donald Trump being impeached during his term
• Democrats taking either chamber of Congress in 2026
• Bitcoin successfully rallying to clear a new all-time high price
• A prediction that a Democratic candidate wins the U.S. Presidential Elections in 2028

Simply put, it is a political scoreboard dressed as tokenomics, and it is the reason the project drew attention before a single token traded.

Two of those 30 slots have now settled. Beeple, the digital artist Mike Winkelmann, referenced the coin publicly and closed out the first bet, burning 5 million tokens. Eric Trump’s mention settled the second. Hunter Biden confirmed both, and the project’s account said 1% of total supply had been removed from circulation as a result.

What the Burn Is Actually Worth

The $3.5 figure sounds substantial until it is measured against what LAPTOP has already lost. Onchain data puts the token near $0.38, with a market capitalization of roughly $140 million and a fully diluted valuation of about $389 million. The coin set an all-time high of $199.51, set on Sept. 9, barely two hours into trading. The token is down 99.8% from that mark.

Bitcoin.com News reported that LAPTOP imploded 98% in 90 minutes on launch day, sliding from $199 to $1.36 before settling near $2.54. It has fallen roughly another 85% since. Daily volume of about $22 million against a $140 million cap tells the rest of the story.

In a statement posted after the crash, the project’s dev team blamed predatory sniper bots and thin liquidity for the crash rather than insider selling. They noted:

“You should not expect us or anyone else to make this token more valuable for you.”

Automated snipers routinely buy new tokens within milliseconds, and a launch with shallow liquidity is the environment they are built for.

Why the Politics Keep the Coin Alive

Because burns are triggered by public attention, anyone with a large enough platform can move LAPTOP’s supply simply by naming it. Eric Trump and Beeple did not buy the token, endorse it, or comment on its economics. They mentioned it, and $3.56 million of supply disappeared.

That creates a strange incentive structure around a coin launched as a direct shot at Trump by a man who has recently become one of crypto’s louder converts. Hunter Biden went viral earlier this month calling fiat a sham, and the memecoin followed days later.

Twenty-eight prediction slots remain, holding the bulk of the 30% allocation. Each one is a scheduled supply event waiting on a political outcome, and several are tied to the November midterms rather than to anything a celebrity says.

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