{"id":188708,"date":"2026-08-14T12:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T12:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/188708\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T12:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T12:05:11","slug":"trump-family-s-world-liberty-financial-wlfi-delay-plans-to-sell-maldives-resort-token","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/188708\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump family &#8216;s World Liberty Financial (WLFI) delay plans to sell Maldives resort token"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World Liberty Financial, the cryptocurrency project backed by the Trump family, delayed plans to sell a token related to a resort in the Maldives, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-08-13\/trump-branded-resort-delays-digital-token-plan-on-iran-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Bloomberg reported on Friday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The token was planned to go on sale next year, giving investors a share of revenue from loans financing the Trump-branded resort, but this has been pushed back due to the Iran war disrupting travel in the region, according to the report, citing people familiar with the matter. <\/p>\n<p>World Liberty Financial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2026\/02\/19\/trump-linked-world-liberty-taps-blackrock-backed-securitize-for-hotel-tokenization\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tapped real-world asset (RWAs) platform Securitize<\/a> in February to help represent loan interests tied to the resort\u2019s development as a digital token that could be traded onchain.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear when the token will now be listed.<\/p>\n<p>The venture is part World Liberty Financial\u2019s plans in tokenization, the representation of RWAs on blockchains in token form. WLFI is exploring this concept <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/tech\/2026\/03\/16\/trump-backed-wlfi-passes-proposal-letting-usd5-million-stakers-buy-direct-access-to-team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">not just in real estate, but in commodities like oil and gas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A World Liberty Financial spokesperson declined to comment, according to Bloomberg\u2019s report. The company did not immediately respond when contacted by CoinDesk for additional comment.<\/p>\n<p>The protocol\u2019s native token WLFI rose by 2.7% on the news before giving back all of the gains and returning to parity. It is now down by 88.5% from its record high in September, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World Liberty Financial, the cryptocurrency project backed by the Trump family, delayed plans to sell a token related&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[81,84663,6130,74],"class_list":["post-188708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eric-trump","tag-eric-trump","tag-real-world-assets","tag-tokenization","tag-trump"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/117093775652079653","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}