2024-10-16 05:40:08
Business
Trump's Cryptocurrency Venture Faces Rocky Start
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The Street
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Economy
Trump promotes new crypto firm "World Liberty Financial" led by his family, including 18-year-old "DeFi visionary" Barron Trump, and sons Don Jr. and Eric Trump. Firm aims to "push back against a 'rigged' financial system." Trump's past promotion of family businesses raised ethics concerns, including potential to sign executive bills on crypto that would benefit his family's crypto business. SEC chair Gensler criticized by crypto industry, including Rep. Tom Emmer, for "regulation by enforceme..
The Street
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Politics
Cryptocurrencies & blockchain
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The Defiant
Trump’s World Liberty Financial Website Crashes Shortly Into Token Sale
Cryptocurrencies & blockchain
Economy
Politics
Finance
World Liberty Financial, Donald Trump’s officially endorsed DeFi project, launched its public token sale this morning, with the website suffering multiple outages since going live.High website traffic is presumed to be the cause of the outage. However, that hasn’t stopped some users from participating in the sale on the smart contract level.At the time of writing, the WLFI token has nearly 3700 unique holders, with 83% still allocated to the top three wallets, two of which were funded onchain..
The Verge
Trump’s crypto website crashed after its token went on sale
Economy
Politics
World Liberty Financial WLFI token for governance, borrowing/lending; 2% of 20B sold; 100,000 signups, 532M tokens; Trump's sons as Ambassadors; not for US, no SEC registration.
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