Trump-linked World Liberty Financial (WLFI) said it will seek community feedback next week on a proposal to unlock locked WLFI tokens for early holders, signaling a phased plan rather than a full release after discontent among early investors.
Unlock Proposal Heads to Community
World Liberty Financial said on X that a governance proposal for the release of locked WLFI tokens will be posted to its forum next week for community discussion before moving to a formal vote.
The project framed the move as a response to early supporters, indicating that any unlock would be phased rather than immediate.
Project Rebuts Lending Concerns
In the same thread, World Liberty Financial pushed back on criticism surrounding its WLFI Markets lending position, saying it had supplied WLFI as collateral and borrowed stablecoins but was not close to liquidation.
The project said its role as a large borrower helps generate yield for other users on WLFI Markets. It also said it had bought back 435.3 million WLFI tokens over the past six months at an average price of $0.1507, for a total of about $65.58 million.
USD1 Upgrade Highlighted
World Liberty Financial also used the thread to promote new features for its USD1 stablecoin, including gasless transfers, support for AI-focused payment infrastructure, and additional compliance-related controls.
The company said balances, approvals, and integrations would carry over without requiring users to migrate, describing USD1 as increasingly geared toward regulated and machine-driven payment use cases.
World Liberty Pushes into New Areas
This expansion comes as Trump-linked World Liberty Financial broadens its ambitions beyond token governance and stablecoins into regulated financial infrastructure and tokenized real-world assets.
In January, the company said subsidiary WLTC Holdings had applied to the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to establish World Liberty Trust Company, a proposed national trust bank intended to bring issuance, custody, and conversion of its USD1 stablecoin under one federally supervised entity.
World Liberty said the bank would target institutional clients such as exchanges, market makers, and investment firms, while offering minting and redemption, dollar on- and off-ramps, and custody services. The company said USD1 had grown to more than $3.3 billion in circulation.
In February, World Liberty said it was moving into tokenized real-world assets through a deal tied to Trump International Hotel & Resort Maldives, its first such project.
The structure is designed to give eligible investors exposure to loan revenue interests tied to the resort’s development rather than direct ownership of the property. The offering is being developed in collaboration with Securitize and DarGlobal, and the project is expected to be completed by 2030.
