what's world liberty financial?
World Liberty Financial is a decentralized finance (DeFi) project backed by the Trump family, aimed at bridging traditional finance (TradFi) with blockchain technology through on-chain products. It focuses on empowering the USD via stablecoins and providing governance through its native token, WLFI. The project emphasizes mass adoption of DeFi protocols, including lending platforms and liquidity mechanisms. Key features include token sales for governance rights, partnerships for integrations like sUSDe, and mechanisms such as buyback and burn proposals to reduce circulating supply. It has raised significant funds through verified sales and is positioned in narratives around regulatory clarity and institutional crypto adoption.
Today, World Liberty Financial sold 73 WBTC for $5.04M, reaching 680k+ holders and launching limit orders.
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Provides USD1 supply incentives on Dolomite offering 5.62% APY in WLFI tokens, with rewards claimable on Merkl.
Listed USD1/PAXG trading pair on Binance.
Transferred $12.5M USD1 to a fresh wallet address (0xb9c72a4b01bf7b9a886c24ba246c95bb6965840e) from address 0x2427a1c7848f0712d321595187e141a0279d479e.
Binance holds 89% of USD1 stablecoin supply ($4.7B out of $5.4B total).
Reached $5.4B in total USD1 stablecoin supply.
USD1 stablecoin supply on Solana reached a $939 million market cap by February 9, 2026.
Hosts an event focused on the intersection of finance, AI, and crypto scheduled for 2026-02-18, with invitations available through content submissions.
USD1 stablecoin recorded $1.9 billion in net inflows over the 30 days ending February 9, 2026.
USD1 stablecoin recorded an 84.8% increase in unique senders over the 30 days ending February 9, 2026, ranking first among stablecoins by senders change.
USD1 stablecoin recorded a 56.5% supply increase over the 30 days ending February 9, 2026, ranking first among stablecoins by supply change.
USD1 stablecoin reached $5.3 billion market cap, ranking as the 5th largest stablecoin 10 months after launch.
Runs a zero-fee trading promotion for transactions using USD1 stablecoin in partnership with Binance.
Runs a $50,000 USD1 community rewards program from February 4th to February 13th, 2026, for participants livestreaming on Binance Square and discussing WLFI or USD1 to qualify.
Led top movers with a 4% price increase on February 9, 2026.
Participated in the Tokenized Summit conference in Hong Kong, sharing a stage with other crypto projects and investors.
Binance runs a USD1 campaign offering 12% APR in WLFI rewards.
A fresh wallet withdrew 10M USDC from Coinbase and bought 74.5M WLFI tokens for approximately $8.45M on February 8-9, 2026.
New wallet spent 10M USDC to accumulate 47.6M WLFI tokens at an average price of $0.109, with 4.83M USDC remaining.
Sold 73 WBTC valued at $5.04M at a price of $69,000 per WBTC on February 5, 2026.
Reached over 680,000 token holders
Launched limit orders for USD1 pairs on Titan Exchange on 2026-01-15
Received a $75 million investment from Justin Sun.
Sold 49% stake to an associate of an Abu Dhabi royal family member for $500 million in a deal signed in January 2025.
Enabled on Bybit exchange with withdrawals on the Mantle Network to open once liquidity requirements are met, with zero withdrawal fees on Mantle for a limited time.
USD1 tokenized asset market cap increased by 191.8% over the past month on Solana.
Swapped 93.77 WBTC (worth $8.08M) for 2,868 ETH on 2026-01-25.
Distributes $40M WLFI airdrop to Binance USD1 holders with weekly payouts over 4 weeks, offering approximately 15% APR and a 1.2x boost for USD1 collateral until February 20, 2026.
Hosted inaugural forum
Launched a WLFI token airdrop program for USD1 holders with an effective APR of 16%-22% over one month, with no purchase action required and eligibility across spot, funding, leverage, and perpetual contract holdings.
Rumored collaboration with Immunefi, a security platform that secures approximately 70% of DeFi TVL and protects over $180B in assets.
Passed a governance vote in January 2026 to increase WLFI token emissions and sell WLFI tokens to fund protocol growth, with the vote reportedly forced through by team and strategic partner wallets despite initial majority rejection by public holders.
Allocated 33.5% of total token supply to the team, 5.85% to strategic partners, and 20% to the public sale.
Integrated USD1 stablecoin for lending and borrowing on Kamino protocol on Solana.
USD1 stablecoin ranks 3rd in volume among stablecoins.
Co-founder and COO Zak Folkman scheduled to appear on FOMO HOUR on 2026-01-19 at 10:30 AM ET to discuss Myriad Markets announcement, USD1 adoption, and WLFI.
integrates USD1 stablecoin with Myriad Markets for prediction market settlements
Partners with Pakistan to develop a USD-pegged stablecoin involving collaboration with Pakistan's central bank on regulated digital payments.
Integrated with Holdstation to enable users to supply USD1 on World Liberty Financial's market to earn WLFI APR and borrow against it.
Token price increased 20% from the start of 2026 through January 9, 2026.
Funding rate has turned deeply negative, indicating unusual market conditions.
Partners with Edel Finance alongside Ondo and other collaborators.
Active addresses increased as of January 8, 2026.
Applied for a national banking license with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) through a newly created trust company entity called WLTC, planning to offer crypto custody and stablecoin conversion services.
Withdrew 162.69 BTC (~$15M) from Aave and swapped them for 4,611 WETH on 2026-01-07.
swapped 27.12 WBTC (worth approximately $2.5M) for 770.6 ETH
USD1 token listed on Token Terminal for tracking on Ethereum.
Passed a governance proposal with 77.75% approval to allocate treasury funds for incentivizing USD1 adoption.
Offers USDI Flexible Savings on BitMart Earn with 25% APY for balances up to 50,000 USDI and 6% APY for balances over 50,000 USDI as part of a holiday promotion.
Reached a total market cap of over $2.79 billion for USD1 stablecoin on December 24, 2025, after supply surged by over 45.6 million tokens.
launched USD1
Integrated with Dolomite to offer USD1 points to holders staking USD1 on the Dolomite platform.
80% of tokens remain locked.
Has a business partnership with Plume, a platform seeking regulatory approval to tokenize real-world assets.
WLFI treasury address receives MON tokens from the wallet that distributed over 50% of Monad's total supply in May.
Three new USD1 trading pairs (DOGE, XRP, SUI) launch on Binance exchange.
WLFI drops -37.5% in value following Eric Trump's call stating the project is at "just the beginning."
USD1 goes live on Raydium DEX, expanding trading availability on Solana.
RaveDAO launches on Kraken and Binance Alpha at 15:00 CET paired with USD1. Aster DEX launches RAVE/USD1 perpetual trading pair with 1.5x points boost and boosted rewards for early traders.
RAVE Token Generation Event launches with WLFI involvement, featuring the first RAVE/USD1 trading pair and over $200k in live incentives alongside Aster, YZi labs, and BNB ecosystem.
Binance announces plans to migrate BUSD collateral to USD1 stablecoin.
BonkFun activity ramps up through BONK's USD1 campaign with WLFI, generating fees for BONK buy and burn mechanism.
Proposed US Congressional legislation would ban elected officials and their families from issuing, endorsing, or profiting from crypto while in office, directly impacting the project.
Binance launches trading pairs for USD1 stablecoin.
USD1 pairs launch on Aster platform.
WLFI selects Aptos as primary blockchain infrastructure and launches USD1 stablecoin achieving $40M TVL with integrations across Aptos DeFi protocols including Thala, Echelon, Hyperion, Tapp, and Decibel.
Binance introduces zero fee trading pairs for WLFI. Tokenization launch planned for January.
RaveDAO lists WLFI as a Web3 partner alongside BNB, OKX, Polygon, Aptos, Bitget, and Trust Wallet in promotional content about their music festival DAO and token launch.
#1COIN receives verification status at Phantom wallet.
Robinhood lists $WLFI alongside $ENA, and WLFI partners with Binance.
HTX exchange includes WLFI in its Merkle Tree Proof-of-Reserves with 101% reserve backing as of December 1st.
WLFI acquires 1% of $SPSC token and 1% of #1COIN ($1) token, backing both communities for their organic growth and consistent engagement in the USD1 ecosystem.
$SPSC token backed by WLFI reaches a peak market cap of $10M, underperforming compared to Pump.fun projects that reached 30M+ market caps in recent weeks.
A new ticker paired with USD1 stablecoin launches on BONK's platform within 10 seconds of Trump's BONK post at 09:13:32 am, reaching $3.5M market cap with participation from multiple KOLs.
World Liberty Financial raises over $800 million in token sales in 2025, with contributions from donors including Justin Sun and Changpeng Zhao.
USD1 stablecoin from World Liberty Financial integrates into Mantle's ecosystem as part of the L2 network's RWA bridge infrastructure connecting TradFi and DeFi.
World Liberty Financial spends $250k to add 1COIN (Solana meme token) to strategic reserve, with app and exchange launch upcoming.
WLFI token goes live on Mars Protocol's Neutron outpost as one of four new perpetual futures markets, enabling Gen3 leverage trading.
World Liberty Financial transfers 250M WLFI tokens worth $40.1M to Jump Trading.
WLFI ranks #1 by Fully Diluted Valuation at $15.70B among all tokens launched in Autumn 2025.
Reuters reports WLFI will launch its RWA products in January 2026.
WLFI drops 51% as part of a broader crash in Trump-linked crypto assets that erased over $1B in Trump family crypto wealth and received front page Bloomberg coverage.
Aster founder Leonard announces partnership with World Liberty Financial at live Dubai event.
World Liberty Financial officially announces buying $SPSC token, which reaches a $15M market cap peak.
Addresses bought $30 million in WLFI tokens, with traders monitoring these whale wallets for sell signals.
Co-founder threatens SEC whistleblower case.
WLFI tokens become available to trade on Bitstamp by Robinhood.
U.S. House Judiciary Committee Democrats release report claiming Trump family generated $800 million from token issuances with alleged links to foreign actors and criticizing administration for rolling back crypto investigations. Weekly price performance shows +24.60% gain, ranking as 5th top gainer.
Alt5 Sigma removes CFO and COO and appoints third CEO in six weeks. The firm currently holds approximately $1.3B worth of WLFI tokens.
Alt5 Sigma raised $1.5B in August for WLFI token purchases. Democratic lawmakers urge investigation into alleged token sales to sanctioned North Korea and Russia entities.
$6.93B Token Generation Event occurs in September 2025, representing the highest-value TGE in the crypto market since 2023.
Alt5 Sigma appoints a new acting CEO following the recent departure of the previous acting CEO and COO.
Alt5 Sigma parts ways with acting CEO Jonathan Hugh and COO Ron Pitters with no reasons disclosed, per Bloomberg report.
New whale creates wallet and takes 5x leveraged long position on 15.37M WLFI ($2.46M) on Hyperliquid using 2.5M USDC.
Treasury holding ALT5 Sigma faces money laundering conviction in Rwanda (not disclosed before WLFI deal), SEC and FINRA probes into irregular trading, executive departures, and 80% stock crash per The Information report.
WLFI climbs 38% in 24-hour trading session with sharp volume spikes.
Official WLFI buyback program resumes after 46-day pause, spending $7.79M-$11.09M USD1 to buy back 46.56M tokens at $0.1674 average price via CoW Swap, while 100% fee buyback proposal passes vote awaiting official announcement.
Unknown whale spends $30M USD1 to buy WLFI over last 3 days, currently up $1.7M in profit and continues buying.
Treasury valued at $7.4B while Arkham blockchain data shows no actual purchases of $SPSC memecoin despite backing claims, with token at $0.0063 price and $6.8M market cap pairing mainly with USD1 stablecoin.
WLFI buys memecoin $SPSC for what they call a reserve, with team member Mello stating the selection of memes is intentional to accelerate USD1 adoption.
World Liberty Financial deposits 40.69M TRX ($11.23M) to HTX exchange in last 11 hours, showing +12.3% profit ($1.23M) on original $10M purchase from Jan 20-23.