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WLFI is up 20% today because World Liberty Financial has said it plans to tokenize loan revenue tied to the Trump International Hotel & Resort now being built in the Maldives. Traders reacted fast. The token is now linked to projected resort loan income, and that pushed WLFI higher during a week when the broader crypto market looked mixed. World Liberty Financial lists President Donald Trump as “co-founder emeritus.” The company said it will tokenize revenue interests from loans connected to the Maldives resort. Those tokens will fall under its branded real-world asset strategy. The announcement came Wednesday at the World Liberty Forum held at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida. World Liberty outlines tokenized real-world asset plan The forum brought out Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. also spoke. John D’Agostino from Coinbase Institutional spoke about volatility. John said, “There are emotional break points. Uh 100,000 I think was an emotional break point on the upside where a lot of people who’ve been holding it since a,000 bucks 2,000 bucks said okay now I can kind of delever and take some risk off. “Um I think any handle six handle, five handle, eight handle, nine handle, 10 handle is an emotional break point. uh in terms of the technicals, you know, that varies based on momentum,” John added. His comments came as investors tried to make sense of price levels across the market while WLFI climbed. Lawmakers debate stable coin rewards at the forum Ohio Senator Bernie Moreno spoke at the event. Bernie said the Clarity Act could become law by April. He supports allowing rewards on stable coins. Bernie said, “What it means is that the cash that you hold, you’re going to have competition to pay you more interest.…

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