{"id":90629,"date":"2025-03-18T00:15:26","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T04:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=90629"},"modified":"2025-03-17T23:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T03:04:08","slug":"trumps-world-liberty-financial-crypto-project-says-it-sold-550-million-in-tokens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2025\/trumps-world-liberty-financial-crypto-project-says-it-sold-550-million-in-tokens.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s World Liberty Financial crypto project says it sold $550 million in tokens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/donald-trump\/\">President Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a>&nbsp;World Liberty Financial crypto project&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20250317855322\/en\/Trump-Inspired-World-Liberty-Financial-Closes-%24550-Million-Across-Token-Sales\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>&nbsp;on Monday that it raised $250 million in its second token sale, bringing the total amount of coins sold to $550 million. WLFI, a venture backed by the first family that describes itself as a sort of crypto banking platform, launched in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/10\/16\/trump-backed-crypto-token-sale-raises-less-than-12-million.html\">October<\/a>, weeks before Trump\u2019s election victory. In a document published at the time of launch, WLFI said the Trump family could take home 75% of net revenue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/03\/17\/trump-world-liberty-financial-crypto-sold-550-million-in-tokens.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) President Donald Trump\u2019s&nbsp;World Liberty Financial crypto project&nbsp;said&nbsp;on Monday that it raised $250 million in its second token sale, bringing the total amount of coins sold to $550 million. WLFI, a venture backed by the first family that describes itself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90629"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90631,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90629\/revisions\/90631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}