World Liberty Financial (WLFI)

Foreign money from UAE royal reportedly buying Trump influence through WLFI digital dollar via @akibablade https://t.co/Q4DihqpEQD

The UAE royal family is said to have quietly taken over 49% of the shares of @worldlibertyfi $WLFI, just a few days before last year's US presidential inauguration. Details: https://t.co/oIjxwgV9yg https://t.co/7hHhwekXxM

The Phase 1 reward of the activity for holding usd1 airdrop $wlfi has been credited. According to others’ calculations, the APR is indeed around 14%. Why am I looking at others’ comments? Because my usd1 was initially placed in spot, I opened an auto‑subscribe wealth‑management product and moved it there, then I found that after taking it out of wealth‑management and putting it into a contract, it will probably be counted in the later phase. Repeating the activity rules: 1. Hold usd1 2. usd1 cannot be in wealth‑management; it gets a bonus in the contract account 3. $wlfi is distributed to spot on a periodic basis After the airdrop reward was released today, usd1 rose in price again. I’ll wait for a dip before swapping a bit more. The market is falling dramatically; I still envy those fully invested in wealth‑management earning stable returns.

ThreadFi Daily A firm tied to the United Arab Emirates quietly bought 49% of the Trump family’s crypto company, World Liberty Financial ( $WLFI )for about $500m just before Trump’s second inauguration. The deal was signed by his son Eric and sent millions to Trump family businesses. Critics say this looks like a foreign government getting cozy with the president’s money world while Trump’s team insists nothing wrong happened. MAJOR TECH AND INVESTMENTS MOVES Solana Bets Get Bigger With Jupiter @JupiterExchange’s app now lets people use @Polymarket, a big online betting site for real world events right on @Solana without switching apps or moving coins. There is a new “Prediction” tab where users can trade on things like sports and politics in one easy place. This market is growing fast with billions of dollars traded and could grow much more in the future. Machines Now Power Smart AI @CoreWeave used to mine crypto but switched its computers to run artificial intelligence and other heavy computing jobs after @Ethereum stopped using GPU mining. @Nvidia invested 2 billion dollars, helping CoreWeave grow into a major AI power while its leaders made about 1.6 billion dollars from selling stock. Other miners are copying this move, turning old crypto sites into busy AI data centers. Vitalik’s New Plan For Smarter Creator Coins @VitalikButerin wants creator coins to reward good work not just lots of posts. He suggests creators join special DAOs that judge their content while traders bet on which creators will be picked, using prediction style markets. When a DAO accepts a creator, it could burn some of their tokens so the rest become rarer and more valuable helping real talent stand out over hype. Nomura’s Crypto Loss Hides A Bigger Play Nomura’s crypto arm, Laser Digital lost money last quarter and cut back its coin trades to lower risk. Yet just two days before, it asked US regulators for a license to open a crypto trust bank for big investors. This fits a clear plan: trade less risky, short term while still spending heavily to build long term crypto services and licenses in places like Dubai, Japan and the US. IN THE OTHER WEB3 NEWS A Nevada judge ordered @Polymarket to stop offering event bets in the state for at least 14 days this comes after regulators said its sports and election markets count as illegal gambling without a license. The court said Nevada is likely to win its case and warned that unlicensed prediction markets could harm the state’s strict gaming rules and public trust. Igor Runets, the boss of Russian Bitcoin miner BitRiver was arrested and put on house arrest for hiding money to avoid taxes. A Moscow court charged him with three tax crimes and his lawyers have only a short time to fight the decision. BitRiver was already under US sanctions, lost big clients, cut costs and even delayed worker pay as money troubles and lawsuits started to grow. A woman who says she dated Tron founder @JustinSunTron claims he used many @Binance accounts, opened under employee names, to pump $TRX ’s price in 2017 and 2018, then dump on small investors for huge profits. Her detailed story echoes earlier SEC charges that Sun faked trading volume and used hidden celebrity promos, though her new claims are still unproven. MARKET PULSE Fear and Greed Index: 14 Global Market Cap: $2.621 T 24hr Volume: $183.63 B SUMMARY The crypto markets faced mixed signals in the past day, with fresh scrutiny on political and executive ties to digital assets, enforcement questions, and new allegations of past market abuse adding headline risk. At the same time, infrastructure shifts, hacks, arrests and cross border deals showed the sector’s ongoing growth, stress and rapid evolution. Not financial advice! Just friends keeping you informed about the future of money.

🚨SEN. WARREN DEMANDS PROBE INTO TRUMP–UAE CRYPTO DEAL, CALLS IT “OBVIOUS CORRUPTION” 🇺🇸 Senator Elizabeth Warren is calling for a congressional probe into the $187M $WLFI deal between the Trump family and the UAE royal family, alleging it coincided with U.S. approval of advanced AI chip exports to UAE.