The Trump family’s leap into the cryptocurrency world has already turned heads, with their digital token WLFI creating billions in paper wealth overnight. According to The Wall Street Journal, the family’s holdings surged by as much as $5 billion after the token’s public trading debut on September 1.
WLFI, launched through their venture World Liberty Financial, began trading in what many are calling a crypto version of an IPO. Until now, investors who bought WLFI privately had no way to exchange or trade their holdings. That all changed with the open-market debut, which instantly assigned real-time market value to the Trump family’s stake.
How Big Is the Trump Stake?
The family controls around 25% of all WLFI tokens, giving them massive influence over the project. Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, and Barron Trump are officially listed as co-founders, while former President Donald Trump carries the title of “Co-Founder Emeritus.”
World Liberty has clarified that team and founder tokens are locked and cannot be sold just yet. Even so, market valuations already reflect eye-popping sums that dwarf earlier private-sale numbers.
From Sky-High Valuation to Market Reality
At launch, WLFI briefly touched astronomical numbers in futures trading valued at more than $40 billion. But selling pressure quickly set in, pulling the token down to about $0.24 per unit, a 20% drop on the day, with a market capitalization of $6.4 billion as tracked by CoinGecko.
A new governance proposal seeks to stabilize supply and demand by redirecting fees from WLFI’s liquidity pools on Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, and Solana. The plan would use those fees to purchase WLFI on the open market and send it to a burn address, effectively removing tokens from circulation and gradually reducing supply.
Crypto Meets Politics
The Trump family officially launched World Liberty Financial last year during Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, pledging to Make America Great Again, this time with crypto. Since then, the family has steadily embraced the digital asset sector, rolling out projects ranging from a stablecoin to Bitcoin mining ventures.
Donald Trump remains closely tied to the company through DT Marks DEFI, a family-controlled entity that holds 22.5 billion WLFI tokens and collected much of the proceeds from early token sales.
While WLFI’s value has already proven volatile, the sheer size of the Trump family’s stake makes it one of the most significant crossovers yet between American politics and the crypto economy.
