{"id":821768,"date":"2025-01-22T05:11:50","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T11:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/22\/trump-affiliated-world-liberty-financial-makes-another-trx-buy\/"},"modified":"2025-01-22T05:11:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T11:11:50","slug":"trump-affiliated-world-liberty-financial-makes-another-trx-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/22\/trump-affiliated-world-liberty-financial-makes-another-trx-buy\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump-Affiliated World Liberty Financial Makes Another TRX Buy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-module-name=\"article-header\" data-module-version=\"1.0.0\" data-module-instance=\"default\">\n<h2>Trump-Affiliated World Liberty Financial Makes Another TRX Buy <\/h2>\n<h2>The most recent purchase brings WLFI&#8217;s TRX holdings to $7.5 million.<\/h2>\n<p><span>Updated Jan 22, 2025, 6:01\u202fa.m.  UTC<\/span><span>Published Jan 22, 2025, 5:45\u202fa.m.  UTC<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-module-name=\"article-body\" data-module-version=\"1.0.0\" data-module-instance=\"default\">\n<p>World Liberty Financial Financial (WLFI), the crypto project backed by the family of U.S. President Donald Trump, has made another purchase of Tron&#8217;s TRX for its treasury<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/intel.arkm.com\/explorer\/tx\/0x817f85396eb0fc15ba99f6877e88d1f58a8f17d8799c87889d462bd861da9d02\"> on-chain data shows<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure><img alt=\"WLFI's latest TRX buy (Arkham)\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1124\" height=\"641\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\"  src=\"http:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.sanity.io%2Fimages%2Fs3y3vcno%2Fproduction%2Fbbf8dc15fc0aa6909e6331110ead47dd47d5327a-1124x641.png%3Fauto%3Dformat&#038;w=3840&#038;q=75&#038;dpl=dpl_5mo8FdrR9AnqJ1cbVy9iRSYB385Y\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAs a strong advocate for blockchain technology and innovation in cryptocurrencies, I&#8217;m excited to see World Liberty Financial integrate TRON as a key part of its growing treasury. TRX&#8217;s inclusion as the fourth-largest asset in WLFI&#8217;s holdings highlights its trust in the Tron blockchain network,&#8221; Justin Sun, founder of Tron, said in a statement to CoinDesk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This most recent purchase was to the tune of $2.6 million and adds an additional 10.8 million TRX to the WLFI treasury. The total holdings of TRX now come in at $7.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With WLFI leading efforts to bridge traditional finance and crypto and the Trump administration&#8217;s pro-crypto stance, the United States will become a major hub for innovation and cryptocurrency adoption,\u201d Sun continued.<\/p>\n<p>CoinDesk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2025\/01\/18\/trump-backed-world-liberty-financial-to-acquire-trx-for-its-treasury-source\">reported in mid-January<\/a> that WFLI intended to purchase TRX and a Tron delegation attended Trump&#8217;s inauguration.<\/p>\n<p>WFLI is also holding $182 million in ETH, $48 million in WBTC, $7.2 million in Tether&#8217;s USDT, $7 million in AAVE, and $6.7 million in Chainlink&#8217;s LINK according to on-chain data with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2025\/01\/20\/trump-linked-crypto-platform-throws-over-70-m-on-wbtc-eth-other-tokens-ahead-of-inauguration\">most token buys coming in before the inauguration<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sources close to the matter say WLFI will continue to increase their TRX holdings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-module-name=\"authors-block\" data-module-version=\"1.0.0\" data-module-instance=\"default\">\n<div>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/author\/sam-reynolds\">Sam Reynolds<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>Sam Reynolds is a senior reporter based in Asia. 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Updated Jan 22, 2025, 6:01\u202fa.m. UTC Published Jan 22, 2025, 5:45\u202fa.m. UTC World Liberty Financial Financial (WLFI), the crypto project backed by the family of U.S. President Donald Trump, has made another purchase of Tron&#8217;s TRX<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":821769,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141100,644],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-821768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-trump-affiliated","category-world"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=821768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}