How One Trader Scored $250 Million From The Trump-Linked World Liberty Financial Token

A pseudonymous crypto trader known as Techno Revenant has secured another outsized payday, realizing about $250 million from the launch of World Liberty Financial (CRYPTO: WLFI), a DeFi token linked to U.S. President Donald Trump‘s family.

What Happened: Blockchain data shows the trader invested $15 million in WLFI during its token sale last year, securing 1% of the total supply, according to Coindesk.

That allocation was distributed on Monday and valued at roughly $250 million as the token began trading.

The nine-digit haul follows a $38 million gain the same trader made last week on derivatives platform HyperLiquid (CRYPTO: HYPE), capitalizing on volatility in Plasma (CRYPTO: …

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