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Binance Becomes First Exchange to List Trump-Linked WLFI Token

Binance is the first crypto exchange to list World Liberty Financial (WLFI) the Trump-family-linked decentralized finance (DeFI) project with trading set to begin Monday afternoon UTC time according to a recent ￰0￱ are already live

while withdrawals are scheduled to begin ￰1￱ will apply its “seed tag” designation a label reserved for innovative but high-risk ￰2￱ now WLFI tokens were non-transferable by design a compliance-driven restriction meant to keep the presale tokens from being freely traded

and Binance’s listing marks the shift to allowing transfers and opening markets on a centralized exchange for the first ￰3￱ the Binance announcement South Korean exchange Upbit also said it will list ￰4￱ Binance to access WLFI trading users must complete quizzes acknowledging heightened volatility and risk ￰5￱ token will launch on three blockchains simultaneously: Ethereum

Binance Smart Chain and ￰6￱ futures launched last week on the Hyperliquid decentralized exchange where traders rushed to short the token driving its implied valuation down to $24 billion from $44 billion within ￰7￱ debut on Binance provides the first spot market for WLFI itself

marking a turning point from its non-transferable token phase to full ￰8￱ Trump and Binance founder Changpeng 'CZ' Zhao both recently spoke at BTC Asia in Hong Kong.

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