Hunter Biden to Launch LAPTOP Meme Coin With 1 Billion Supply on Base September 9

1 Billion LAPTOP Tokens, 30% to Founders

Hunter Biden, son of former US President Joe Biden, is launching a politically charged meme coin named LAPTOP on Coinbase's Base network — the layer-2 whose dapp ecosystem has hosted high-profile token launches before — with the token set to go live on September 9. One fifth of the entire supply is reserved for airdrops that explicitly include wallets still holding Donald Trump's official TRUMP token at a loss. The launch was reported on Monday morning and Biden confirmed it within minutes in a post on his verified X account, where the $LAPTOP ticker and the September 9 date appeared alongside a 31-second clip recapping the media coverage of his laptop. The name is deliberate: Biden left the device at a repair shop in Wilmington, Delaware, in 2019, its contents were published weeks before the 2020 election, and an FBI agent later testified at his 2024 federal trial that the serial number matched Apple's records. Biden disputes that account, saying the files were taken from his cloud storage.

post on his verified X accounthttps://x.com/HunterBiden/status/2096975577727316327

The tokenomics are laid out in unusually specific terms. LAPTOP carries a total supply of 1 billion tokens, of which the founding team — a group that includes Biden himself — takes 30%, locked for six months and then released over roughly two years. Another 20% is split across two airdrop rounds covering three groups: wallets underwater on TRUMP, subscribers to Biden's Substack, and sign-ups on a mailing list run by video journalist Andrew Callaghan. A further 20% is earmarked for liquidity, exchange listings and legal costs. The remaining allocation — up to 30% of supply — is set aside for burns triggered by pre-defined events: a Democratic victory in the 2028 US presidential election, a new all-time high for Bitcoin, or LAPTOP's market capitalization overtaking that of TRUMP itself.

Fake LAPTOP Tokens Reach $6.9M

The official contract does not go live until Wednesday, but that has not stopped trading in the name. Within roughly an hour of the launch report, more than a dozen counterfeit LAPTOP tokens appeared on chains including Solana, BNB Chain and TON, changing hands for around $6.9 million combined. None carried an official contract address, because no official address has been published — which means every LAPTOP token trading today is, by construction, an imitation. Beyond the risk of outright loss, thin-liquidity fakes expose buyers to severe slippage, as even a modest sell order can collapse the price of a token with no backing.

The pattern is well documented. Base itself drew more than 500 scam tokens in its first weeks after launching in 2023, according to Solidus Labs, and blockchain investigator ZachXBT has separately traced hijacked celebrity and brand accounts that promoted fake tokens and moved $3.5 million to anonymous wallets. Solana — where TRUMP itself debuted and where the Solana Blinks framework lets posts carry embedded on-chain actions — hosted several of the LAPTOP imitations. Imitation launches also piggyback on copy trading flows, where wallets chase trending addresses without verifying what they are buying. The token being copied has its own painful history: TRUMP launched on January 18, 2025, crashed more than 50% within hours after Melania Trump released a token of her own, and traded near $2.28 on Monday against a January 2025 peak of $73.43 per aggregate market data. Those losses are precisely why underwater TRUMP wallets sit at the front of the airdrop queue. Readers tracking the market in real time can follow live spot and futures prices on Binance.

Burn Clauses Bet on 2028 Headlines

LAPTOP and TRUMP bookend a new genre in which political scandals are tokenized and the tokenomics carry the argument. The load-bearing primary record here is Biden's own X confirmation, which states the $LAPTOP ticker and the September 9 launch date — and nothing else; no contract address has been released by anyone. Our reading: burn clauses tied to a 2028 Democratic win, a fresh Bitcoin record high and a market-cap crossover over TRUMP make this a wager on headlines rather than cash flows, and the counterfeits now trading across three chains are monetizing exactly that ambiguity. Until the official address appears, every LAPTOP-shaped token should be treated as unverified.