Trump Family-Linked Crypto Token World Liberty Financial Tumbles Over 15% At Debut

The Trump family’s cryptocurrency token, World Liberty Financial , stumbled on its first day of trading, erasing early gains and showing the immediate losses faced by ￰1￱ , the governance token of the decentralized finance platform launched last year, began trading above $0.30 on Monday before sliding to $0.24, according to ￰2￱ represented a more than 15% drop from intraday ￰3￱ decline left WLFI with a market capitalization just below $7b, ranking it as the 31st largest cryptocurrency in ￰4￱ of the world’s biggest exchanges, including Binance, OKX and Bybit, listed the token at launch, drawing immediate attention from ￰5￱ Investors Allowed To Sell Up To 20% Of Holdings The launch followed a July vote by investors to make WLFI ￰6￱ then, the tokens functioned only as governance instruments, giving holders the right to weigh in on code changes and business ￰7￱ investors are permitted to sell up to 20% of their holdings, the company ￰8￱ first 20% unlock, estimated at 3b to 5b tokens sold at presale prices of $0.015 and $0.05, triggered a wave of ￰9￱ pressure tempered excitement from the debut and weighed on prices despite strong speculative ￰10￱ to the project’s official blog, 24.6b tokens were made available at the time of launch.

Trump-backed WLFI will launch with a shocking 27B tokens in circulation. $WLFI #TokenLaunch ￰0￱ — ￰11￱ (@cryptonews) September 1, 2025 The Trump Factor: Driving Investor Interest Trading activity was ￰12￱ volumes hit $2.25b while derivatives turnover surged to between $3b and $8b, reflecting heavy positioning across futures platforms. Pre-market trading on venues such as Hyperliquid and Binance Futures had already signalled turbulence, with WLFI changing hands between $0.30 and $0.56. Since its inception last year, World Liberty Financial has reportedly generated around $500m for the Trump ￰13￱ platform also issues a stablecoin and has been marketed as a gateway for retail investors into decentralized ￰14￱ early backers, the main attraction was the Trump ￰15￱ said they believed the token’s value would rise on the strength of that connection rather than its technical ￰16￱ tradable launch gave them the first real chance to test that assumption in open ￰17￱ Liberty’s debut drew political scrutiny as ￰18￱ lawmakers and ethics experts have warned that the Trump family’s crypto ventures raise conflicts of interest, given the president’s influence over digital asset ￰19￱ Trades Add To Speculative Frenzy Around WLFI Traders also followed the token’s celebrity ￰20￱ analytics platform Lookonchain reported that influencer Andrew Tate’s WLFI long was liquidated for a $67,500 loss ￰21￱ after, he re-entered the market with a new ￰22￱ move shows the highly speculative mood surrounding the token.

WLFI’s circulating supply at launch was limited to about 4% to 6.8% of the total, intensifying ￰23￱ combination of a constrained float, political ties and future unlocks has left market sentiment cautious despite heavy trading ￰24￱ launch marked one of the most closely watched token debuts of the ￰25￱ rocky first session showed the Trump brand’s drawing power and the risks of tying political capital to a speculative market.