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The World Liberty Financial token, WLFI, began trading on several crypto exchanges on Monday. Here’s how traders can avoid scams. After months of speculation, the Donald Trump–backed World Liberty Financial (WLFI) token began trading Monday morning. However, confusion remains around the token’s unlock schedule, supported exchanges and distinguishing the legitimate WLFI from a wave of imitations. WLFI is the native token of World Liberty Financial, a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform founded in 2024. While its utility has been kept deliberately vague, the project promotes itself as a bridge between traditional finance and DeFi. WLFI functions as the platform’s governance token, giving holders voting power over protocols and strategic decisions. On Monday, the project confirmed WLFI is officially live with a total supply of 24.66 billion tokens, allocated as follows: Read more

Donald Trump’s crypto initiative, World Liberty Financial, went live on Sept. 1 with a market valuation above $7.4 billion, sparking heavy trading in its opening hours. According to CoinMarketCap data, WLFI climbed 13% to $0.2525 shortly after launch, while its trading volume has already surpassed $1.8 billion across centralized and decentralized exchanges. Notably, this rush […] The post Trump-backed token WLFI launches with $7.4B valuation, sends Ethereum gas fees soaring appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Trump-linked World Liberty Financial is weighing a $1.5 billion Nasdaq-listed treasury company to hold WLFI tokens. World Liberty Financial, the Trump family-backed crypto venture, is exploring the creation of a publicly traded company to hold its WLFI tokens, with a fundraising target of roughly $1.5 billion. The structure of the deal is still being finalized, but major investors in technology and crypto have been approached, and discussions are said to be progressing quickly, according to a Friday report from Bloomberg. The move would place World Liberty among a growing wave of digital-asset treasury companies, which are publicly traded firms holding crypto reserves. These companies have raised an estimated $79 billion in 2025 for Bitcoin purchases alone, per the report. Read more

World Liberty Financial announced that its WLFI governance token will begin trading within six to eight weeks of July 18, completing a community mandate that authorized on-chain transfers and secondary market access.  According to the project’s announcement on X, the team will use the lead time to finalize “strategic alignments,” such as exchange listings and […] The post WLFI token set to trade within eight weeks after 99.94% vote opens transfers appeared first on CryptoSlate.

World Liberty Financial (WLFI) token holders approved a governance proposal to make the WLFI token tradable, allowing the project to begin enabling transfers and secondary market access.  Token holders cast overwhelmingly affirmative ballots before the July 16 close, with 11.1 billion tokens voting “Yes,” equivalent to 99.94%.  World Liberty posted the “Make $WLFI Token Tradable” […] The post World Liberty Financial holders back WLFI public trading with massive 99.9% positive votes appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao allegedly supported crypto projects tied to the Trump family while privately seeking a presidential pardon, according to a July 11 Bloomberg News report. The report claimed that Binance wrote the foundational smart contract code for USD1, a stablecoin issued by World Liberty Financial, a company affiliated with President Donald Trump. […] The post Binance allegedly wrote the code for WLFI’s stablecoin USD1 appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Eric Trump announced that World Liberty Financial, the DeFi platform linked to President Donald Trump and his family, will take a significant treasury stake in the Official TRUMP memecoin. He also confirmed that the controversial Trump-branded wallet recently unveiled by the team behind the memecoin would not continue development. Wallet project nixed The announcement comes […] The post Eric Trump says WLFI will acquire TRUMP for treasury, unofficial wallet project nixed appeared first on CryptoSlate.

World Liberty Financial (WLFI), the crypto venture associated with President Donald Trump and members of his family, has issued a cease-and-desist letter to the creators of a newly announced Trump-branded crypto wallet, Bloomberg News reported on June 5, citing a person familiar with the matter. The letter, reportedly sent to Fight Fight Fight LLC, the […] The post WLFI issues cease and desist notice to creators of ‘Official Trump Wallet’ appeared first on CryptoSlate.

World Liberty Financial reportedly sent a letter after the company behind Donald Trump’s memecoin and Magic Eden announced plans to launch an “official $TRUMP wallet.” World Liberty Financial (WLFI), the cryptocurrency platform backed by US President Donald Trump and members of his family, has reportedly issued a cease-and-desist letter to the company responsible for creating a Bitcoin wallet tied to the president’s brand. According to a June 5 Bloomberg report, WLFI sent the letter to Fight Fight Fight LLC, the company that owns Gettrumpmemes.com and is behind issuing the TRUMP memecoin. The cease-and-desist notice was reportedly issued after the non-fungible token marketplace Magic Eden and the team behind the memecoin revealed a waitlist for a crypto wallet featuring Trump’s name. Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son and a “Web3 ambassador” for WLFI, said on June 3 that the Trump Organization had “zero involvement” with the crypto wallet project, announcing that the group was planning its own launc...

World Liberty Financial’s stablecoin USD1 surpassed $10 billion in transfer volume just 10 days following its listing on Binance, according to data from Artemis. From May 22 to June 1, the stablecoin traded $10.7 billion in volume, surpassing the total transfers from its inception until May 21. The stablecoin is native to World Liberty Finance, […] The post WLFI’s stablecoin USD1 surpasses $10B in transfers within 10 days of Binance listing appeared first on CryptoSlate.