World Liberty Financial Boosts Trump with $57M Crypto Win—DeFi Strengthens
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World Liberty Financial DeFi project raised $550 million through token sales earlier this week, with Donald Trump reporting crypto earnings through NFTs and other affiliated projects. A major whale accumulated nearly 800 million WLFI tokens over the past week, with substantial USDT transfers. US President Donald Trump recently disclosed his income of $54.7 million from World Liberty Financial, a decentralized finance (DeFi) project backed by the Trump family, with his sons Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. leading the venture. The details emerged as Trump submitted his 2025 public financial disclosure to the US Office of Government Ethics on Friday, June 13. Additionally, the filing also reveals that President Trump holds a total of 15.75 million WLFI governance tokens, native to the World Liberty Financial project. This massive holding also gives the President some voting rights in this project. Trump’s Earnings Includes That from World Liberty Financial and NFTs The Trump family launched World Liberty Financial last year in October 2024 with the goal of disrupting major banking institutions. Interestingly, the President’s family secured 75% of revenues from the sale of its WLFI governance tokens. Earlier this year, in March 2025, the DeFi project concluded a $590 million WLFI token sale, as reported by CNF earlier, indicating that last year’s report may not fully reflect Trump’s total earnings from the token sale. The report also mentions Donald Trump’s earnings from various digital asset products associated with his brand. He disclosed $1.16 million in revenue from his NFT trading cards. However, the report excludes any mention of the TRUMP meme coin, which had been reported to generate between $86 million and $100 million by January 30. Earlier this week, DeFi project WLFI also announced acquiring a large stake in the Official Trump (TRUMP) meme coin. As a result, the Trump family’s connection…
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