{"id":869662,"date":"2025-09-01T21:12:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T02:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/01\/wlfi-token-begins-trading-insights-into-the-trump-backed-crypto\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T21:12:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T02:12:49","slug":"wlfi-token-begins-trading-insights-into-the-trump-backed-crypto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/01\/wlfi-token-begins-trading-insights-into-the-trump-backed-crypto\/","title":{"rendered":"WLFI Token Begins Trading: Insights Into The Trump-Backed Crypto"},"content":{"rendered":"
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World Liberty Financial, a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform supported by President Donald Trump, has officially launched its native token WLFI. Although the debut<\/a> of WLFI marks a significant step for the Trump family, its initial performance has been lackluster compared to the anticipation it garnered in recent weeks.<\/p>\n

WLFI Token Faces 12% Decline<\/span><\/h2>\n

According to CoinGecko <\/span>data<\/span><\/a>, the WLFI price had already seen losses of up to 12% by the time of writing. It is attempting to consolidate at the $0.24 mark, which could be the cryptocurrency\u2019s first support line for the rest of the week.<\/span><\/p>\n

Upon launch, WLFI reached a high of $0.33 and a low of $0.23 earlier on Monday\u2019s trading session. This represents a nearly 25% gap from the current trading levels and the recently established all-time high for the World Liberty Financial token.<\/span><\/p>\n

Donald Trump Jr., the eldest son of President Donald Trump, took to social media platform X to defend the token\u2019s legitimacy, <\/span>stating<\/span><\/a>, \u201cThis isn\u2019t some memecoin; it\u2019s the governance backbone of a real ecosystem changing how money moves. Freedom + finance + America FIRST.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

World Liberty Financial was established last October, with Donald Trump serving as \u201cco-founder emeritus\u201d alongside his three sons. The company initially created 100 billion WLFI tokens, of which about a quarter were sold for a face value of $550 million.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

However, these tokens were not initially tradeable and could only be used for voting on corporate matters within the company. A vote last month permitted the tokens to be traded, allowing for a nominal total market value of around $6.4 billion based on the current price.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the initial trading phase, 24.7 billion WLFI tokens are set to be available, which includes 7.8 billion tokens earmarked for a newly <\/span>announced <\/span><\/a>\u201ccrypto treasury\u201d company in collaboration with ALT5 Sigma, a Nasdaq-listed fintech company.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Critics Raise Conflict Of Interest Concerns\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

Financial disclosures reveal that Donald Trump held approximately 15.75 billion WLFI tokens at the end of last year, which, at the current trading price, would be valued approximately $3.6 billion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

However, the Trump family\u2019s involvement in the sector has drawn criticism among Democrats. Senator Elizabeth Warren raised concerns in an April <\/span>letter<\/span><\/a>, arguing that the Trump family\u2019s financial interests in World Liberty Financial create a conflict of interest that could influence regulatory decisions in favor of cryptocurrency.<\/span><\/p>\n

Earlier this year, the company also launched a stablecoin named <\/span>USD1<\/span><\/a>, pegged to the dollar, with a total nominal value of $2.7 billion. The head of crypto market maker DWF Markets, Andrei Grachev, who is also an investor in WLFI, announced plans to shift $250 million of reserves into USD1.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The 1-minute chart shows WLFI\u2019s price drop. Source: WLFIUSDT on TradingView.com<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Featured image from NBC, chart from TradingView.com\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\n Ronaldo Marquez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

World Liberty Financial, a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform supported by President Donald Trump, has officially launched its native token WLFI. Although the debut of WLFI marks a significant step for the Trump family, its initial performance has been lackluster compared to the anticipation it garnered in recent weeks. WLFI Token Faces 12% Decline According to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":869663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21983,22591],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-869662","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-begins","8":"category-token"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869662","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=869662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}