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Eugene

(64,198 posts)
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 11:16 AM Mar 25

Trump's World Liberty Financial crypto venture says it will launch stablecoin

Source: Reuters

LONDON, March 25 (Reuters) - Donald Trump's World Liberty Financial crypto venture will launch a dollar-pegged stablecoin called USD1, backed by U.S. Treasuries, dollars and other cash equivalents, it said in a statement on Tuesday.

USD1 will be launched on the Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain blockchains, the statement said, with plans to launch to other protocols in the future.

The digital token, intended to keep a value of $1, will be "fully backed by a reserve portfolio audited regularly by a third-party accounting firm," World Liberty said, without giving details of the accounting firm, or the date of its launch.

Zach Witkoff, World Liberty's co-founder, said "sovereign investors and major institutions" would be able to integrate USD1 "into their strategies for seamless, secure cross-border transactions."

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By Tom Wilson and Elizabeth Howcroft
March 25, 2025 9:47 AM EDT Updated an hour ago


Read more: https://www.reuters.com/technology/trumps-world-liberty-financial-crypto-venture-says-it-will-launch-stablecoin-2025-03-25/



Alternate link: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trumps-world-liberty-financial-crypto-134723917.html

Another week, another grift.
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PSPS

(14,418 posts)
1. "seamless, secure cross-border transactions" means more untraceable rubles for republicans
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 11:28 AM
Mar 25

Torchlight

(4,451 posts)
3. The e-grift will now commence in full
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 11:37 AM
Mar 25

And a lot of basement-tech-bru's will be cleaned out by Sept.

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Diraven

(1,335 posts)
7. I don't see how anyone makes money from this
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 12:13 PM
Mar 25

Except the insiders who are granted billions of them for free. Everyone else would make more money just trading currency directly or earning interest on dollars in the bank.

muriel_volestrangler

(103,371 posts)
8. I would expect an attempt to make federal accounts use it in some way
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 01:00 PM
Mar 25

which would then enrich Trump's operation. Possibly after a period of getting people to pay effective bribes to Trump by using it.

andym

(5,926 posts)
11. Will this be the new coin of the realm (US currency)?
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 02:33 PM
Mar 25

With the king's pic on the jpg? Would Trump dare?

Midnight Writer

(23,614 posts)
12. Witkoff? Isn't that the name of the guy we've got in Moscow negotiating a Russia-Ukraine cease-fire?
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 03:12 PM
Mar 25

Wonder if they are connected?

ultralite001

(1,495 posts)
14. Zach Witkoff's dad...
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 05:25 PM
Mar 25

Steve Witkoff, is currently serving as the Krasnov administration’s "Special Envoy to the Middle East"...
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