Trump-backed World Liberty Financial eyes $1.5B public listing, blending politics, blockchain, and DeFi to reshape mainstream finance.
World Liberty Financial (WLF), a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform backed by the Trump family, is taking a bold step toward becoming a publicly listed company. The planned listing would hold its native WLFI tokens and aims to raise about $1.5 billion. This announcement, as reported by Bloomberg on 9 August 2025, is a milestone for the project. It combines political power, creative finance, and blockchain technology.
WLF Targets Top 10 Spot in Crypto Market
It all started in September 2024, when WLF started its journey with the mission of making people financially independent using DeFi. Eric and Donald Trump Jr., sons of President Donald Trump, signed on as advisors to the project, giving it high-profile publicity. The first token sale on the platform was in October 2024.
It has sold 25 billion WLFI tokens to raise 550 million dollars. This saw the total funding to be almost 600 million. More than 85,000 investors took part in it, and one of the investors is the founder of TRON, Justin Sun, who invested 75 million dollars. The good initial demand was an indicator that investors believed in the vision of WLF.
WLFI is an Ethereum-based ERC-20 token. Initially, it was inapplicable and only applied in governance voting. But that is no longer the case since July 2025 due to a community governance vote. The making of WLFI tradable was endorsed by an overwhelming 99.94 percent of the token holders. The decision paved the way to trade on the public markets. The experts currently forecast that the token can go as high as $8 to $12 in the medium term, which means that it may become one of the leading 10 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization. The tokens will be released in phases of six to eight weeks to make it stable.
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Public Listing Could Cement World Liberty Financial Role in Mainstream DeFi
The platform strategy is an imitation of the steps of companies such as MicroStrategy that employ digital assets to enhance reserves. WLF has a Strategic Reserve Fund of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Chainlink with a capital of 76.9 million dollars. It’s a USD1 stablecoin that is secured by U.S Treasury securities and has also expanded rapidly. It is currently ranked fifth in terms of market cap of stablecoins, at $2.21 billion. This indicates confidence in the financial system of WLF in the market.
Moving toward a public listing is the next logical step. WLF has touched on big investors in the technology and crypto industries. Negotiations are seemingly progressing at a swift pace, even though the structure of the final deal is yet to be worked out. The integration with the lending technology of Aave and the cooperation with Chainlink and the Aqua1 Foundation only adds credibility to the platform.
This growth is more than that of WLF. It indicates a bigger trend of DeFi platforms becoming a part of mainstream finance. WLF combines blockchain technology with a regulated and investor-friendly strategy. Therefore, it is becoming a leader in digital asset adoption. It is politically connected and has a growing pool of investors. Moreover, its high ambitions strengthen its position in the market. As a result, WLF can shape the future relationship between traditional markets and DeFi.
In such an event, the $1.5 billion listing would not only be a win for WLF but also a landmark of the entire crypto industry. It would serve as a role model to other blockchain ventures, hence speed up the adoption of decentralized finance into the mass economy.
