{"id":28360,"date":"2025-05-23T18:46:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T18:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=28360"},"modified":"2025-05-23T18:46:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T18:46:33","slug":"crypto-titans-deny-collusion-claims-over-trump-linked-defi-platform-as-binance-founder-slams-smear-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=28360","title":{"rendered":"Crypto Titans Deny Collusion Claims Over Trump-Linked DeFi Platform As Binance Founder Slams &#8216;Smear Campaign&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Key players from the crypto sector, namely <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/03\/44569369\/trump-family-tightens-grip-on-defi-platform-world-liberty-financial\">World Liberty Financial<\/a><\/strong> and <strong>Binance<\/strong>, are pushing back against allegations suggesting they jointly promoted a decentralized finance project associated with <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The controversy erupted following a Wall Street Journal article that implied Binance founder <strong>Changpeng Zhao<\/strong> had supported foreign outreach for the DeFi platform, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblock.co\/post\/355588\/world-liberty-denies-claims-binances-cz-acted-as-foreign-fixer-for-trump-backed-project?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss\">according<\/a> to The Block reporting published on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Zak Folkman<\/strong>, a co-founder of World Liberty Financial (WLFI), posted a firm rebuttal on social media on Friday, dismissing claims that Zhao, widely known as \u201cCZ,\u201d acted as a behind-the-scenes facilitator for WLFI or its fellow co-founder, <strong>Zach Witkoff<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Folkman called the idea \u201claughable\u201d and categorically untrue.<\/p>\n<p>The Wall Street Journal had hinted at potential connections between Zhao and WLFI&#8217;s efforts to establish a presence in countries such as Pakistan, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/05\/45593898\/crypto-titans-deny-collusion-claims-over-trump-linked-defi-platform-as-binance-founder-sla\" alt=\"Crypto\" titans deny collusion claims over trump-linked defi platform as binance founder slams campaign>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key players from the crypto sector, namely World Liberty Financial and Binance, are pushing back against allegations suggesting they jointly promoted a decentralized finance project associated with Donald Trump. The controversy erupted following a Wall Street Journal article that implied Binance founder Changpeng Zhao had supported foreign outreach for the DeFi platform, according to The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-28360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}