{"id":869664,"date":"2025-09-01T21:12:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T02:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/01\/trump-familys-world-liberty-stake-surges-to-5b-after-token-unlock\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T21:12:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T02:12:48","slug":"trump-familys-world-liberty-stake-surges-to-5b-after-token-unlock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/01\/trump-familys-world-liberty-stake-surges-to-5b-after-token-unlock\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump family\u2019s World Liberty stake surges to $5B after token unlock"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-gtm-locator=\"articles\" data-v-43e640e6>\n<article id=\"article-213031\" data-v-43e640e6>\n<p itemprop=\"description\" data-v-43e640e6> The crypto company tied to the US president and his family unlocked 24.6 billion tokens, making their holdings worth about $5 billion. <\/p>\n<div data-v-43e640e6><picture><source media=\"(min-width: 1200px)\" ><source media=\"(min-width: 992px)\" ><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" ><source media=\"(min-width: 480px)\" ><img  loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=90,width=1434\/https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2025-09\/019906e0-8f87-77de-88a4-c53cd4548eba\" alt=\"Trump family\u2019s World Liberty stake surges to $5B after token unlock\"><\/picture><\/div>\n<div data-v-43e640e6>\n<div data-v-43e640e6>\n<p>An entity tied to US President Donald Trump\u2019s family now holds about $5 billion worth of World Liberty Financial\u2019s governance token (WLFI) after a significant unlock on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to World Liberty Financial\u2019s website, DT Marks DEFI LLC and \u201ccertain family members\u201d of Trump held 22.5 billion WLFI tokens. The company <a data-ct-non-breakable=\"null\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/trump-backed-wlfi-unlock-27-billion-tokens-coinmarketcap\" title=\"null\">reported unlocking 24.6 billion WLFI tokens<\/a> on Monday as part of a scheduled move to establish an initial circulating supply, briefly boosting the price to $0.40 before it fell to about $0.21 at time of publication.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VKc5QcRvdc0?start=\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>World Liberty previously said the holdings of its founders \u2014 including Trump and his three sons, Donald Trump Jr., Barron Trump and Eric Trump \u2014 would initially remain locked. However, Monday\u2019s unlocking effectively gave the Trump family\u2019s stake a valuation of about $5 billion based on the WLFI price at the time of publication.<\/p>\n<p>Trump and his sons endorsed the crypto company following its September 2024 launch, amid his presidential campaign. The project is one of many \u2014 along with his memecoin, Official Trump (<a data-ct-non-breakable=\"null\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/maga-price-index\" title=\"null\">TRUMP<\/a>) and a family-tied Bitcoin (<a data-ct-non-breakable=\"null\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/bitcoin-price\" title=\"null\">BTC<\/a>) mining company \u2014 under criticism from lawmakers, saying they could be <a data-ct-non-breakable=\"null\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/congress-bipartisan-blockchain-bill\" title=\"null\">used to influence<\/a> US government policies through financial ties to the president.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Related: <\/strong><\/em><a data-ct-non-breakable=\"null\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/china-control-trump-family-wealth\" title=\"null\"><em><strong>China could leverage crypto control over Trump family wealth<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The New Yorker reported in August that Trump personally <a data-ct-non-breakable=\"null\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/trump-crypto-gains-2-4b-since-2022-report\" title=\"null\">gained about $2.4 billion<\/a> from his crypto ventures since 2022, before the token unlock. In addition to gains from World Liberty Financial, his family\u2019s mining venture and his memecoin, the president reportedly netted $243 million from crypto deals between the US and United Arab Emirates and $1.3 billion from Trump Media and Technology Group\u2019s Bitcoin holdings.<\/p>\n<h2>Mining company set to go public on Tuesday<\/h2>\n<p>Shares of the Trump family\u2019s crypto mining company, American Bitcoin, are expected to be <a data-ct-non-breakable=\"null\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/american-bitcoin-reverse-merger-gryphon-nasdaq-abtc\" title=\"null\">publicly listed after Tuesday<\/a> as part of a merger with Gryphon Digital, another Bitcoin mining entity. The deal includes a reverse five-to-one stock split, with the combined company trading under the ticker symbol ABTC.<\/p>\n<p><template data-ct-widget=\"buzzsprout\" data-buzzsprout-podcast-id=\"2040516\" data-buzzsprout-episode-id=\"17715136\"><\/template><\/p>\n<p>Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the co-founders of cryptocurrency exchange Gemini, reportedly <a data-ct-non-breakable=\"null\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/winklevoss-invest-trump-family-bitcoin-mining\" title=\"null\">invested an undisclosed amount<\/a> in American Bitcoin. Donald Trump, Jr. and Eric Trump owned 20% in the mining company before the merger.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Magazine: <\/strong><\/em><a data-ct-non-breakable=\"null\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/the-one-thing-these-6-global-crypto-hubs-all-have-in-common\/\" title=\"null\"><em><strong>The one thing these 6 global crypto hubs all have in common\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><template data-name=\"subscription_form\" data-type=\"markets_outlook\" label=\"Subscription Form: Markets Outlook\"><\/template><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt src=\"https:\/\/zoa.cointelegraph.com\/pixel?postId=213031&#038;regionId=1\" data-v-43e640e6><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/trump-family-world-liberty-financial-token-unlock?utm_source=rss_feed&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Cointelegraph by Turner Wright<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The crypto company tied to the US president and his family unlocked 24.6 billion tokens, making their holdings worth about $5 billion. An entity tied to US President Donald Trump\u2019s family now holds about $5 billion worth of World Liberty Financial\u2019s governance token (WLFI) after a significant unlock on Monday.\u00a0 According to World Liberty Financial\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":869665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24794,4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-869664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-familys","8":"category-trump"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869664","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=869664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}