{"id":67402,"date":"2026-01-12T19:46:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T19:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=67402"},"modified":"2026-01-12T19:46:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T19:46:32","slug":"trump-affiliated-world-liberty-launches-lending-platform-a-conflict-of-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=67402","title":{"rendered":"Trump-Affiliated World Liberty Launches Lending Platform\u2014A Conflict Of Interest?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>World Liberty Financial <\/strong><a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"WLFI\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/WLFI-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: WLFI)<\/a>, backed by President <strong>Donald Trump\u2019s<\/strong> family, launched World Liberty Markets, a DeFi lending platform for its USD1 stablecoin worth $3.4 billion, even as critics point to conflicts of interest tied to Trump\u2019s $800 million crypto income in 2025.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">USD1 Stablecoin Now Available For Lending And Borrowing<\/h3>\n<p>World Liberty Markets <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblock.co\/post\/385131\/trump-backed-world-liberty-expands-crypto-lending-usd1-stablecoin-ranks?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social\">allows<\/a> users to lend and borrow digital assets using USD1 alongside collateral including <strong>Ethereum<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/ETH-USD\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"ETH\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/eth\/usd\">ETH<\/a>), <strong>USDC<\/strong>, <strong>USDT<\/strong>, tokenized <strong>Bitcoin <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BTC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BTC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>), and the WLFI governance token. The platform is powered by Dolomite protocol.<\/p>\n<p>Users can currently borrow USD1 by paying roughly 0.83% interest or lend it out to earn 0.08%, though these rates will likely shift as more money flows into the platform.<\/p>\n<p>USD1 has grown to $3.4 billion in circulation since its March 2025 debut, making it one of the largest dollar-backed stablecoins behind only major players like <strong>Tether<\/strong>, <strong>Circle <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/CRCL\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"CRCL\" data-exchange=\"NYSE\" rel=\"noopener\">(NYSE:<\/a><a class=\"ticker\" ...><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/01\/49856752\/trump-affiliated-world-liberty-launches-lending-platform-a-conflict-of-interest?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Trump-Affiliated\" world liberty launches lending platform conflict of interest>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Liberty Financial (CRYPTO: WLFI), backed by President Donald Trump\u2019s family, launched World Liberty Markets, a DeFi lending platform for its USD1 stablecoin worth $3.4 billion, even as critics point to conflicts of interest tied to Trump\u2019s $800 million crypto income in 2025. USD1 Stablecoin Now Available For Lending And Borrowing World Liberty Markets allows [&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-67402","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\/67402","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=67402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}