World Liberty Financial, a decentralized finance (DeFi) project tied to U.S. President Donald Trump, made a notable cryptocurrency acquisition on his first day in office, spending approximately $112.8 million to bolster its digital asset portfolio.
On Monday, World Liberty, a crypto initiative supported by Trump’s family, significantly diversified its holdings, acquiring six different types of tokens. This included $47 million worth of ether (ETH) and $47 million worth of wrapped bitcoin (WBTC), according to a post on its X account. In addition, the project invested $4.7 million each in Aave (AAVE), Chainlink (LINK), TRON (TRX), and ENA tokens. The project stated that these purchases were made to commemorate Trump’s inauguration as the 47th president of the United States.
Following this transaction, World Liberty’s ether holdings grew to 57,115 ETH, now valued at roughly $185.14 million based on current market prices, according to data from Arkham Intelligence. Ether now makes up more than half of World Liberty’s total portfolio value.
As of now, the project’s crypto holdings include:
- $54 million in USDC (54 million USDC)
- $46.5 million in wrapped bitcoin (456.7 WBTC)
- $15.3 million in staked ether (4,747 STETH)
- $6.6 million in Aave (19,399 AAVE)
- $6.2 million in Chainlink (256,315 LINK)
- $4.8 million in ENA (5.8 million ENA)
- $4.6 million in TRON (19.3 million TRX)
These acquisitions came after World Liberty completed the sale of 20% of its 100 billion WLFI token supply late Sunday. The project subsequently began selling an additional 5 billion WLFI tokens (5% of the total supply). Since launching pre-sales in October 2024, World Liberty Financial has raised $300 million, according to data from Dune Analytics.
In a related development, Justin Sun, the founder of Tron, revealed on Sunday that Tron DAO had invested an additional $45 million into WLFI, increasing its total investment in the project to $75 million. Sun, who became an advisor to World Liberty in November, had previously facilitated a $30 million investment in WLFI through his project.
January 2025, Cryptoniteuae
