Author: Bowen
On February 5, 2025, Trump's media and technology The group company, Trump Media and Technology Group Corp. (TMTG), announced that the company has applied to register brand names related to its ETFs and SMAs, and plans to launch these products starting this year.
Trademark names include Truth.Fi Bitcoin Plus ETF, Truth.Fi Bitcoin Plus SMA , Trump will become the first US president to issue Bitcoin ETFs.
TMTGTMTG was founded in 2021 to challenge the suppression of freedom of speech by large tech companies, promote free expression and open the Internet. The company operates social media platform Truth Social, TV streaming service Truth+, and Truth.Fi, which covers financial services and fintech.
The Trump family is the actual controller of TMTG, Donald Trump himself As a major shareholder and decision maker, he plays an important role in the development of the company. The previously popular $TRUMP coin is the first-hand information released on the media platform Truth Social.
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According to the announcement, the registered trademarks applied for by TMTG this time include:
- Truth.Fi Made in America ETF
< p style="text-align: left;">- Truth.Fi Made in America SMA- Truth.Fi US Energy Independence ETF
- Truth.Fi US Energy Independence SMA
- Truth.Fi Bitcoin Plus ETF
< p style="text-align: left;">- Truth.Fi Bitcoin Plus SMAYorkville serves as a registered investment advisorTMTG has been with Yorkville Advi, New Jersey-based Yorkville Advi sors The affiliated companies have signed a service agreement and a license agreement. With the necessary approval, Yorkville will serve as a registered investment advisor for the new financial instrument, responsible for building products and guiding them through the regulatory process. The proposed Truth.Fi fund will make an initial investment of up to $250 million, with the custodian Charles Schwab.
TMTG CEO and Chairman of the Board said: "Our goal is to Investors provide access to invest in U.S. energy, manufacturing and other businesses that can form competitive alternatives to the 'awakening funds' and debanking issues that are common in the market.
We are exploring a variety of ways to differentiate our products, including strategies related to Bitcoin. We will continue to optimize the product ranges we plan to launch to create investment options that best align with the 'U.S. first' principle. "Yorkville is pleased to take this critical step with TMTG to develop the 'U.S. First' investment tool. We attach great importance to it. As a strategic financial partner of TMTG and proudly joins Truth.Fi’s innovative actions.”
Eric Balchunas, senior ETF analyst at Bloomberg Industry Research, said TMTG's Bitcoin ETF may not gain the same appeal as companies like BlackRock, but it still has significant significance.
"Although it has the brand of Trump, it has the same as IBIT and FBTCCompared with that, these projects may be insignificant in terms of asset aggregation. That being said, the fact that they launched the project itself adds content to the mainstream narrative, which is important. ”