The Trump family's cryptocurrency project, WLFI, which has attracted much attention in the market, officially landed on major cryptocurrency exchanges today (1). Due to its close relationship with the Trump family, WLFI caused a sensation even before its official launch. In the pre-market trading of WLFI contracts listed on some exchanges, WLFI contract positions once reached hundreds of millions of US dollars, which shows the market's expectations for WLFI.
The following section will organize important information about WLFI to help readers understand the project and provide a reference for readers to judge the future development of WLFI.
What is WLFI?
WLFI, short for World Liberty Financial, was launched in 2024. Backed by the Trump family, the project aims to foster U.S. leadership in the global cryptocurrency market by promoting the widespread adoption of stablecoins and decentralized finance, particularly strengthening the dominance of dollar-pegged stablecoins. The project's stated mission is to "Make Cryptocurrency and America Great Again."
The WLFI token is World Liberty Financial's governance token, based on the ERC-20 standard of the Ethereum blockchain. Initially, WLFI tokens were non-transferable and used only for governance voting within the platform. However, in July 2025, a governance proposal approved the WLFI token as a tradable and liquid asset, effective September 1, 2025.
Token Presale
Initially, those who wanted to obtain WLFI could participate in the official pre-sale event. On October 15, 2024, WLFI officially launched the public token sale, selling at $0.015 and $0.05 respectively, raising $550 million and attracting more than 85,000 investors.
USD1 stablecoin
WLFI has launched a USD1 stablecoin, backed by U.S. Treasury bonds, U.S. dollars, and other cash equivalents. USD1 has been deployed on multiple blockchains, including Ethereum, BNB Chain, Solana, and Tron, enabling fast, low-cost global transactions.
WLFI opened at $0.35
As one of the biggest hot spots in the current market, major mainstream cryptocurrency exchanges have also announced the listing of spot and contract trading of this token, including Coinbase, Binance, OKX, Bitget, etc.; at the same time, the decentralized exchange Hyperliquid has also listed the WLFI token.
According to OKX spot market data, WLFI reached a high of $0.35 after opening at 21:00 on the evening of September 1, Taiwan time, and its market value once exceeded $9 billion. At the time of writing, it was temporarily reported at $0.325, with an opening increase of more than 60%.
WLFI Token Economics
Before WLFI was officially launched, the official published an article on Medium, announcing its token economy, which includes:
$WLFI will have an initial circulating supply of approximately 24,669,070,265 tokens at launch, with the supply distributed as follows:
- 10,000,000,000: The portion of the ecosystem unlocked for World Liberty Financial
- 7,783,585,650: Allocated to ALT5 Sigma Corporation as part of its treasury strategy, holding approximately 8% of the total supply of $WLFI
- 2,880,884,615: Designated for liquidity and marketing to support initial exchange offerings
- 4,004,600,000: Allocated to public sale participants, representing the initial 20% unlock at launch
In addition to the initial circulating tokens, the official stated that a considerable portion of the supply will not be circulated when WLFI is launched. These tokens are subject to vesting plans or locked in other ways, including:
- Treasury: 19,955,030,000 (vesting plan to be determined)
- Team: 33,506,999,999 (vesting plan to be determined)
- Public sale (locked portion): 16,018,400,000
- Strategic partners: 5,850,499,736
Officials spend $2 million to buy WLFI
It is worth mentioning that after WLFI was listed for trading, the WLFI official team wallet spent 1 million USD1 twice at around 21:00 and 21:30 on the evening of September 1, and purchased a total of approximately 6.5 million WLFI tokens.
