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World Liberty Financial’s WLFI token is facing renewed scrutiny as the Donald Trump family-backed crypto project tries to rebuild demand and confidence after its recent slide to an all-time low. World Liberty Financial has responded with WLFI token burns, exchange integrations, and rewards programs tied to its USD1 stablecoin, a campaign aimed at restoring activity […] The post World Liberty Financial rebound gives dormant WLFI holders an exit as AI Financial warns of survival risk appeared first on CryptoSlate.

World Liberty Financial co-founder Donald Trump Jr. and co-founder and CEO Zach Witkoff pushed back on recent online rumors as the crypto firm battles Justin Sun in court.

World Liberty Financial allegedly used illiquid tokens to borrow $75 million, fueling bad debt fears and rattling confidence among traders. World Liberty Financial’s WLFI token risks dipping 20% in April, according to a mix of convincing technical and fundamental indicators. Key takeaways: WLFI is painting a bear flag setup with a 20% downside potential. Read more

World Liberty Financial (WLFI), the decentralized finance platform backed by President Donald Trump, is navigating a deepening crisis as a precipitous drop in its token price collides with a bitter public dispute involving Tron founder Justin Sun. The turbulence centers on two distinct but compounding controversies: accusations from Sun that the protocol's team used centralized […] The post World Liberty Financial threatens top token holder with legal action as WLFI loses $700M amid token scandal appeared first on CryptoSlate.

World Liberty Financial, the decentralized finance project co-founded by the Trump family, is hastily preparing to unlock a massive tranche of its WLFI tokens after a nearly two-year holding period. The impending release will likely target a portion of the remaining 80% of public investors' allocations to the project. According to Tokenomist data, this translates […] The post Trump’s World Liberty Financial borrows $75M against illiquid WLFI tokens with 16B token dump incoming appeared first on CryptoSlate.

On Jan. 7, Donald Trump’s World Liberty Financial (WLFI) formally applied for a national banking charter to establish the “World Liberty Trust Company.” This is a proposed national trust bank specifically designed to handle USD1 stablecoin issuance, custody, redemption, and reserve management. USD1 is WLFI's flagship product, with more than $3.3 billion in supply across […] The post Why is Donald Trump’s World Liberty Financial (WLFI) is applying for a banking license right now? appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The Trump family’s World Liberty Financial filed for a banking charter to gain greater control over its USD1 stablecoin and expand its adoption among institutions. The Trump family’s crypto platform, World Liberty Financial, has filed for a national trust banking charter to accelerate the institutional adoption of its USD1 stablecoin. World Liberty said on Wednesday that its subsidiary WLTC Holdings filed with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) for a charter that would allow it to issue, custody and convert its stablecoin in-house, rather than rely on third-party providers such as BitGo. “Institutions are already using USD1 for cross-border payments, settlement, and treasury operations,” said World Liberty CEO Zach Witkoff. “A national trust charter will allow us to bring issuance, custody, and conversion together as a full-stack offering under one highly regulated entity.” Read more

The Trump family’s crypto project, World Liberty Financial, has seen its fair share of controversy, and its token is ending the year significantly down. World Liberty Financial, the Trump family’s crypto portfolio project, started the year with high hopes. But as the year draws to a close, the fund has barely seen gains. US President Donald Trump announced the launch in September 2024 while he was still on the campaign trail for the 2024 elections. Led by his sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, it marked a significant shift in tone for crypto policy in the US. The program started strong. It launched its own World Liberty Financial (WLFI) governance token and made large acquisitions of high-market-cap cryptocurrencies. Read more

Democratic Senators Elizabeth Warren and Jack Reed asked the Justice Department and the Treasury Department to investigate World Liberty Financial after a watchdog alleged that WLFI token sales touched wallets tied to North Korea’s Lazarus Group, a Russia-linked ruble token, an Iranian exchange, and prior Tornado Cash users. The senators’ referral arrived after Accountable US […] The post Democrats attack Trump’s World Liberty Financial for taking North Korean money — want DOJ probe appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Polygon developer Bruno Skvorc lashed out at World Liberty Financial (WLF) on Saturday, accusing the company of stealing his funds. In a post on X, Skvorc wrote: “…they stole my money, and because it’s the @POTUS family, I can’t do anything about it.” Skvorc was one of the hundreds of users, including Tron founder and […] The post Polygon developer calls World Liberty Financial the ‘scam of all scams” appeared first on CryptoSlate.

World Liberty Financial (WLFI), the DeFi project linked to the US President Donald Trump, has blacklisted more than 200 wallet addresses since it started trading on Sept. 1. On Sept. 4, Galaxy researcher Zach Pokorny reported that the DeFi venture had blocked 272 wallet addresses within its first week of trading. According to Pokorny, some […] The post Apart from Justin Sun’s wallet, World Liberty Financial has blacklisted over 270 additional wallets appeared first on CryptoSlate.

World Liberty Financial (WLFI) blocklisted a wallet address belonging to Justin Sun, preventing the Tron founder from selling his 595.109 million WLFI tokens worth nearly $104 million. The blocklisting affects both unlocked and locked tokens in Sun’s wallet, according to on-chain data. The wallet address is: “0x5AB26169051d0D96217949ADb91E86e51a5FDA74” Sun invested $75 million total in WLFI, making […] The post World Liberty Financial blocklists Justin Sun’s address holding 595 million WLFI appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Perplexity predicts a bullish long-term crypto trend, highlighting XRP’s surge, new adoption milestones, and ETF speculation. WLFI’s volatile launch and Dogecoin’s ETF filing add momentum, while Bitcoin and Ethereum hold strong, signaling optimism in a cautious September market. The post Perplexity AI Predicts the Price of XRP, World Liberty Financial and Dogecoin by the End of 2025 appeared first on Cryptonews.

ALT5 Sigma is raising $1.5 billion through a 200 million-share sale to fund a corporate treasury centered on Trump-backed World Liberty Financial tokens. ALT5 Sigma Corporation agreed to sell 200 million shares of common stock for $1.5 billion to jumpstart its World Liberty Financial (WLFI) corporate treasury. According to the Monday ALT5 Sigma announcement, the company has registered a direct stock offering for 100 million shares and a concurrent private placement for an additional 100 million shares. Both offerings are conducted at $7.50 per share, or $750 million each. The announcement follows reports that World Liberty Financial (WLFI), a Trump family-backed crypto venture, is exploring the creation of a publicly traded company to hold its WLFI tokens. The firm is targeting roughly $1.5 billion in fundraising and aims to close the offering on Tuesday. Read more

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 (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.

A Friday report from Bloomberg suggested closer ties between US President Donald Trump's family-backed crypto business and one of the largest digital asset exchanges. Cryptocurrency exchange Binance reportedly helped create the code behind the stablecoin issued by World Liberty Financial (WLF), one of the crypto businesses tied to US President Donald Trump. According to a Friday Bloomberg report citing three people familiar with the matter, Binance helped create, promote, and played a role in the largest transaction of WLF’s USD1 stablecoin. The crypto business, backed by Trump and his three sons, launched USD1 on March 4.  An Abu Dhabi-based investment firm, MGX, announced a $2-billion investment in Binance on March 12 using a then-unnamed stablecoin. Eric Trump, one of WLF’s co-founders, said in May that the company would be using USD1 to settle the investment. Read more

The community proposal aims to transition the protocol from closed governance to a more open, decentralized finance-oriented model. World Liberty Financial (WLFI), a decentralized finance protocol co-founded by US President Donald Trump's family, initiated a community proposal to make the WLFI governance token transferable and tradable across the crypto ecosystem. The proposal is part of the project's roadmap to transition to an "open participation" model by allowing the token to trade on secondary markets, including decentralized exchanges and peer-to-peer networks. Currently, the WLFI token exists in a closed system and cannot trade outside the platform, limiting the governance pool and price discovery. Read more

The Trump family–tied decentralized finance platform has seen growing interest from institutional investors. World Liberty Financial (WLFI), a crypto platform tied to US President Donald Trump’s family, has partnered with London hedge fund Re7 to launch a USD1 stablecoin vault across Euler Finance and liquid staking protocol Lista. The partnership is part of a broader effort to expand the presence of World Liberty's USD1 stablecoin on the BNB Chain, according to Bloomberg. Lista is one of the major liquid staking platforms for the BNB (BNB) token, and its decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), which governs the platform, is backed by Binance Labs — the venture capital arm of crypto exchange Binance. Read more

President Donald Trump’s family has reduced its stake in World Liberty Financial (WLFI) in the last couple of weeks, Forbes reported on June 20. DT Marks DEFI LLC, the Trump family’s main holding company for the project, has trimmed its ownership from 75% in December 2024 to about 60% by January and further down to […] The post Trump family cuts stake in World Liberty Financial by 20% appeared first on CryptoSlate.