Trump's WLFI debuts 🌎

The Trump-backed World Liberty Financial Ethereum token debuted for trading on Monday, shooting to a $7.6 billion market cap.

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Stephen Graves
September 01, 2025

📝 What you need to know

The President-Trump backed DeFi project World Liberty Financial debuted its WLFI Ethereum token Monday, with the cryptocurrency shooting to a $7.6 billion market cap.

While World Liberty Financial co-founder Donald Trump Jr. tweeted that the token “isn’t some meme coin,” political commentators have decried the president’s involvement in crypto projects as creating “pathways” for corruption, while Democratic lawmakers have opened an inquiry into his digital asset interests, including WLFI.

On prediction market Myriad, developed by Decrypt’s parent company Dastan, users currently believe a downward trend for WLFI is likely, placing a 65% chance on more red than green candles in the first 69 hours following WLFI’s launch.

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“This isn’t some meme coin, it’s the governance backbone of a real ecosystem changing how money moves.”

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