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Markets
World Liberty Financial's WLFI token surged double digits ahead of a high-profile gathering at Mar-a-Lago, though experts remain divided on whether the move signals genuine momentum or a short squeeze fueled by whale activity.
WLFI is up by more than 22% over the past 24 hours, according to CoinGecko data, despite dropping 25% over the past month. The token's sudden spike coincides with the Trump-family-backed project's Tuesday announcement of a February 18 "World Liberty Forum" at the president...
Markets
The cryptocurrency market cap is steadily turning green, with altcoins accelerating their recovery bounce over the past day.
The native token of perps DEX Aster is up nearly 10% over the past 24 hours, making it the largest gainer in the top 50 altcoins by market capitalization. Other tokens including Hyperliquid and World Liberty Financial have followed suit, bouncing 8.9% and 7.6% respectively, according to data from price aggregator CoinGecko.
The broader altcoin sector has also seen gains,...
The Projects
U.S. President Donald Trump has a long list of crypto ventures, profiting to the tune of some $1.4 billion as of January 2026. Of them, a DeFi project dubbed World Liberty Financial might be the biggest.
The platform, which President Trump co-founded, according to its website, along with his three sons, wants to make finance "reliable, open, and made for how the world works today."
World Liberty Financial was announced by President Trump's son Eric in August 2024. It is led by DeFi builders Chas...
Markets
Official Trump (TRUMP) and World Liberty Financial (WLFI) have fallen 14.6% and 10.8% in the past 24 hours, as the cryptocurrency market continues to weather steep losses amid falling sentiment.
TRUMP is now priced at $3.41, marking a 24.7% loss in a week, a 37.7% drop in a month, and a 95% collapse since the Trump-linked meme coin hit a record high of $37.43 in January of last year, per CoinGecko data.
Meanwhile, World Liberty Financial’s governance and utility token, WLFI, has sunk to $0.111,...
Law and Order
Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA-17) launched an investigation Thursday into a $500 million investment by a United Arab Emirates royal family member in World Liberty Financial, the Trump family's crypto company, raising questions about whether the deal influenced U.S. policy on advanced AI chip exports to the UAE.
"This is about public trust and transparency,” Khanna tweeted Thursday, while announcing the probe.
Breaking: I have launched an investigation as ranking member of the Select Committee...
Opinion
Morning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. The analysis and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Decrypt. Subscribe to the Morning Minute on Substack.
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Today’s top news:
Crypto majors fall to new local lows, then rebound; BTC -3% at $76k
Vitalik says the original L2 vision no longer makes sense in lengthy X post
Y Combinator announces teams can receive $500k funding in USDC this spring
Circle announces a $30,000 hackathon solely for AI age...
Law and Order
Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) warned Monday that those involved in alleged secret payments from a UAE investor could face jail time, describing the situation as "potentially criminal conduct" tied to the transfer of sensitive defense technology following a deal involving Trump-linked crypto firm World Liberty Financial.
"A UAE investor secretly gave Trump $187 million and his top Middle East envoy $31 million. And then Trump gave that investor access to sensitive defense technology that broke deca...
Coins
The global stablecoin market surged to a new all-time high this week, surpassing $311 billion in total supply, even as broader crypto markets struggle under sharp price declines and heavy liquidations.
According to data from DeFiLlama, the stablecoin market cap peaked at $311.332 billion on January 18, and currently sits at $309.066 billion.
Tether’s USDT remains the dominant issuer with more than $187 billion in circulation, followed by Circle’s USDC at approximately $74 billion, per CoinGecko...
Our Company
Prediction market Myriad will integrate USD1, the stablecoin launched by the Donald Trump-backed DeFi project World Liberty Financial. With the integration, Myriad, a prediction market developed by Decrypt's parent company Dastan, becomes “the first prediction market to partner with WLFI to launch USD1 pools,” bringing USD1 on BNB Chain to the platform.
The integration of USD1 on Myriad “expands the real-world utility of stable, dollar-backed digital assets in emerging on-chain markets,” said Za...
Business
Pakistan’s Ministry of Finance has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with an affiliate of World Liberty Financial, a DeFi project linked to U.S. President Donald Trump's family, to explore innovation in digital finance.
The MOU, signed Wednesday, includes exploring the use of stablecoins for cross‑border transactions, according to a post by the country’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (Pakistan VARA).
The regulator said the agreement reflects “growing global interest in Pakistan as...
Law and Order
Aave announced Tuesday that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has concluded its investigation into the decentralized finance (or DeFi) protocol, with no intention to recommend an enforcement action.
It comes four years after the investigation was opened, the Aave CEO said on X, over which time the project has invested significant time, energy, and funds in protecting itself from the SEC.
“This process demanded significant effort and resources from our team, and from me personally as t...
Opinion
Morning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. The analysis and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Decrypt. Subscribe to the Morning Minute on Substack.
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Today’s top news:
Crypto majors fall hard to start the week; BTC at $87,200
JPMorgan launches new tokenized money market fund on Ethereum
Decrypt names Trump as Crypto Person of the Year
The Senate punted the crypto market structure bill to 2026
MetaMask added native Bitcoin support with...
Business
Donald Trump and his family have used the presidency to make hundreds of millions of dollars from “cryptocurrency schemes,” according to a new partisan report from the House Judiciary Committee Democrats.
Signed by Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the report attempts to document how President Trump has doubled his net worth since the beginning of his 2024 election campaign, primarily via the launching of cryptocurrency-related ventures and businesses.
Citing investigations by Reuters, the rep...
Markets
While Bitcoin consolidates its recent gains, select altcoins with strong narratives are breaking out, with coins like World Liberty Financial and Ethena outpacing the broader market.
Ethena is up 7.3% over 24 hours, while Bittensor and Quant are up between 5% and 7%, according to CoinGecko data.
The Trump family-linked WLFI has shown strong, steady performance, up 36% since its November 21 low of $0.11, highlighting intense, focused demand in an otherwise cautious market.
This limited altcoin r...
Markets
WLFI, the native token of the Trump family's DeFi project World Liberty Financial, surged 29% to $0.158 in the last 24 hours, as the U.S. Senate advanced a bipartisan plan to end the longest government shutdown in history.
The WLFI tokens is currently trading 53.5% below its all-time high of $0.46, ranking as the 43rd-largest crypto with a $4.2 billion market cap, according to CoinGecko data.
The rally extended across the crypto market, with Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) climbing 3.6% and 4....
Business
President Donald Trump's embrace of crypto, paired with his return to the White House, has fueled enormous profits for his family—north of $1 billion to date, his son Eric Trump said.
A Financial Times investigation found that President Trump and his family’s crypto businesses have profited $1 billion pre-tax. When asked if the calculations were accurate, Eric Trump told the publication that the true figure was “probably more.”
It’s worth noting that Donald Trump is estimated by Forbes to be wo...
Coins
An Aptos influencer has officially joined the company as an advisor after his meme-fuelled “community takeover” helped pump the APT token’s price in February, renewing developer interest in the network.
Pseudonymous X user Buzzlamic Jihad, who is called Buzz by his friends and family, told Decrypt that he hopes to address Aptos’ image problem and position it as a premium stablecoin network—harking back to the original Libra vision from Facebook in which Aptos was founded.
He said that one way he...
DeFi
It was launched as an exclusive cryptocurrency, only for those with deep pockets. But after a vote, now the average Joe will soon be able to buy President Trump-backed WLFI from exchanges.
The native token of World Liberty Financial will soon be available for trading to "begin the next phase of community ownership and engagement," according to its website.
WLFI is World Liberty's native governance token. In the crypto space, holders of a governance token can vote to make changes to how the proj...
DeFi
The President Trump-backed crypto project, World Liberty Financial, has a new investor—which just snapped up $100 million worth of WLFI tokens.
In a joint statement with World Liberty Financial issued Thursday, United Arab Emirates-based crypto fund Aqua 1 Foundation said that it bought the large sum of WLFI tokens "to help accelerate the creation of a blockchain-powered financial ecosystem."
It added that the buy was helping merge the worlds of traditional finance and decentralized finance....
Markets
Market maker and investment firm DWF Labs has bought $25 million in WLFI tokens in a "strategic private transaction" with World Liberty Financial, the crypto project backed by U.S. President Donald Trump and his family.
WLFI is the native token of World Liberty Financial, an Ethereum-based decentralized finance platform that aims to provide crypto borrowing and lending services. DeFi is a catchall term that encompasses the wide array of financial applications that utilize cryptocurrencies and o...
