Trump and Monero are winning the crypto market

Well, as predicted earlier this week, World Liberty Financial, Donald Trump’s crypto company, saw a nice jump in value this week. Monero, the privacy coin that’s likely attracting a lot of angry ZCash investors, also rose sharply. Monero is thus following in the footsteps of silver. We’ll explain it all.

Iran and Trump

As I indicated this past weekend, it was to be expected that Donald Trump would escalate his rhetoric about Iran. Some investors are therefore anticipating military action against the country, something the United States already did last year. That would be good news for World Liberty Financial, the Trump family’s cryptocurrency. It jumped by some 10% yesterday.

Zilver en Monero

A second winner this week is the largest privacy coin in the CoinMarketCap top 100, Monero. This rise is likely due to several reasons, and it’s possible the trend will continue for a while.

Firstly, there’s a growing need for privacy coins. Geopolitically, many regimes will face challenges in 2026 if the trend from the beginning of the year continues. This means that many politicians will have to move billions (before they head to Moscow). Monero is (unfortunately) used for this purpose because of the anonymity it offers.

Secondly, there are many crypto investors switching from ZCash (the other privacy coin whose development team resigned last week) to Monero.

Hey investors/traders
If you cannot figure out what I am telling you here then I could never be of any value to your thinking pic.twitter.com/dLz1ncK2PX

— Peter Brandt (@PeterLBrandt) January 12, 2026

Third, there was a very clear hint from chart savant Peter Brandt. Last week, he foretold that that the silver chart (which is experiencing a parabolic rise) was a precursor to the Monero chart. If that’s true, we probably haven’t seen the last of this movement yet