Étienne Girard
The Trump family’s crypto portfolio has surged by nearly $5 billion on paper following the launch of World Liberty Financial’s WLFI token on multiple crypto exchanges on Monday. According to the project, the family owns 22.5 billion WLFI tokens, equivalent to 22.5% of the total 100 billion supply, along with a 38% equity stake in WLF Holdco LLC and 75% of net revenue from the token’s initial presales.
At the current price of $0.25 per WLFI, PRIME reports that the Trump family’s allocation is theoretically worth $5.6 billion, a sharp increase from the $1.1 billion valuation based on presale prices.
World Liberty Financial raised $300 million from an initial presale of 20 billion WLFI tokens at $0.015 between October 2024 and January 2025. A second tranche of 5 billion tokens sold for $0.05 each generated another $250 million, bringing total funds raised to $590 million, with $442.5 million earned by the Trump family.
Token Circulation and Market Cap
At launch, 24.67 billion WLFI tokens (24.67% of supply) were made available, giving the token a market capitalization of $6.8 billion and a fully diluted value of $25 billion. This float includes:
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10 billion tokens for the World Liberty Financial ecosystem.
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7 billion tokens for Alt5 Sigma Corporation.
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2.8 billion tokens earmarked for liquidity and marketing.
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20% of public sale participants’ holdings unlocked at launch.
Non-circulating tokens include allocations for the treasury, team, locked public sale, and strategic partners, including the Trump family’s locked holdings, which remain subject to a non-disclosed vesting schedule.
World Liberty Financial Protocol Overview
The WLFI token operates on Ethereum and leverages Aave V3 for lending and borrowing, with fully audited reserves and established custody solutions. WLFI serves as a governance token, enabling votes on protocol parameters, incentive programs, and growth initiatives.
Additionally, the platform launched USD1, a dollar-backed stablecoin with a $2.6 billion market cap, currently ranked as the sixth-largest stablecoin. Earlier this week, World Liberty Financial proposed a buyback program to allocate all protocol-owned liquidity fees to repurchase and burn WLFI, aiming to strengthen the tokenomics.
Crypto Holdings vs. Real Estate Empire
Beyond WLFI, the Trump family controls stakes in Donald and Melania Trump memecoins, American Bitcoin mining ventures, and other crypto assets. For example:
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80% of the official Trump memecoin, theoretically worth $6.7 billion.
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Trump Media & Technology Group, valued at $4.9 billion, holds 15,000 BTC (~$1.6 billion).
Combined, these holdings mean that, on paper, the Trump family’s crypto portfolio already exceeds their decades-old real estate empire, estimated at $2.65 billion by Fortune. Critics, however, warn that realizing this digital wealth could raise conflict-of-interest concerns.
