{"id":41313,"date":"2025-08-09T14:46:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T14:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=41313"},"modified":"2025-08-09T14:46:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T14:46:46","slug":"trump-linked-world-liberty-seeks-1-5b-for-public-crypto-holding-firm-bloomberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=41313","title":{"rendered":"Trump-Linked World Liberty Seeks $1.5B for Public Crypto Holding Firm: Bloomberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>World Liberty Financial, the decentralized finance platform with ties to the Trump family, is said to be in talks with large investors to raise about $1.5 billion for a public company that would hold its WLFI tokens.<\/p>\n<p>The deal\u2019s structure, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-08-08\/trump-linked-world-liberty-pitches-a-1-5-billion-crypto-vehicle\">Bloomberg reports<\/a>, is still under discussion. The company approached deep-pocketed investors in technology and crypto, the report said, citing people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the firm outlined plans for a crypto-lending app and currently issues USD1, a dollar-backed stablecoin that was used to facilitate MGX\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2025\/03\/12\/binance-gets-usd2b-investment-from-abu-dhabi-s-mgx\">$2 billion investment in Binance<\/a>. WLFI tokens, initially launched as non-transferable governance assets, are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/trumps-world-liberty-crypto-tokens-become-tradable-2025-07-16\/#:~:text=July%2016%20-%20Holders%20of%20the,the%20president's%20holdings%20of%20them.\">expected to become tradable<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The move would see World Liberty Financial join a growing number of cryptocurrency treasury firms, which have been issuing debt and equity to accumulate millions worth of various tokens. WLFI itself already has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2025\/07\/23\/trump-linked-wlfi-partners-with-vaulta-after-usd6-million-token-buy\">diversified token portfolio<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has adopted numerous pro-crypto policies, having just this week signed an executive order <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/policy\/2025\/08\/07\/donald-trump-signs-order-letting-crypto-into-401-k-retirement-plans\">letting 401(k) retirement plans invest<\/a> in alternative assets, including private equity and cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Liberty Financial, the decentralized finance platform with ties to the Trump family, is said to be in talks with large investors to raise about $1.5 billion for a public company that would hold its WLFI tokens. The deal\u2019s structure, Bloomberg reports, is still under discussion. The company approached deep-pocketed investors in technology and crypto, [&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-41313","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\/41313","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=41313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}