{"id":41551,"date":"2025-08-11T16:02:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T16:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=41551"},"modified":"2025-08-11T16:02:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T16:02:05","slug":"trump-familys-defi-play-pulls-alt5-sigma-into-1-5b-wlfi-treasury-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=41551","title":{"rendered":"Trump Family\u2019s DeFi Play Pulls ALT5 Sigma Into $1.5B WLFI Treasury Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>ALT5 Sigma Corp. (ALTS) said it plans to load up on WLFI tokens in a $1.5 billion deal that will see the token of the Trump family\u2019s crypto venture, World Liberty Financial, become a core treasury asset.<\/p>\n<p>The company said it will <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.issuerdirect.com\/news-release.html?newsid=6310961390010878&amp;symbol=ALTS\">issue and sell 200 million shares<\/a>, split between a direct offering and a private placement, to fund the purchase. The move will leave ALT5 holding 7.5% of the total WLFI supply, it said.<\/p>\n<p>World Liberty CEO Zach Witkoff will become chairman of ALT5&#8217;s board, Eric Trump will become a director of the company, co-founder Zak Folkman will become a board observer and crypto investor Matt Morgan will take over as chief investment officer.<\/p>\n<p>ALT5 Sigma will sell 100 million shares to institutional investors for $7.50 each, and another 100 million in a private placement in exchange for WLFI tokens. WLFI was recently priced at $0.3659, according to CoinGecko data. The financing is expected to close Aug. 12.<\/p>\n<p>Proceeds from the cash portion of the deal will fund crypto treasury operations, buy additional WLFI tokens, pay down debt, settle litigation and bolster working capital. <\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2018, ALT5 operates crypto payment platform ALT5 Pay and over-the-counter trading desk ALT5 Prime, claiming over $5 billion in processed digital asset transactions.<\/p>\n<p>By making WLFI a cornerstone of its balance sheet, ALT5 is betting that the token\u2019s fortunes will be lifted by both crypto market momentum and the Trump family\u2019s political cachet \u2014 a wager that could hinge as much on the 2025 campaign trail as on Wall Street.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Disclaimer:<\/em><\/strong> <em>Parts of this article were generated with the assistance from AI tools and reviewed by our editorial team to ensure accuracy and adherence to<\/em> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/ethics\">our standards<\/a>. For more information, see<\/em> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/coindesk-news\/2023\/04\/14\/how-coindesk-will-use-generative-ai-tools\">CoinDesk&#8217;s full AI Policy<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALT5 Sigma Corp. (ALTS) said it plans to load up on WLFI tokens in a $1.5 billion deal that will see the token of the Trump family\u2019s crypto venture, World Liberty Financial, become a core treasury asset. The company said it will issue and sell 200 million shares, split between a direct offering and a [&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-41551","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\/41551","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=41551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}