World Liberty Financial Self-Dealing

World Liberty Financial (WLFI) is a crypto venture launched in 2025 and co-founded by President Trump's sons, with a Trump-controlled entity reported to receive the large majority of net token proceeds. Since WLFI's launch, the archive has recorded a recurring pattern: outside parties with their own regulatory, legal, or sanctions exposure acquiring large stakes in WLFI or its USD1 stablecoin, and the proceeds or resulting goodwill flowing back to the president's family or its associates.

Two of the earliest and largest purchases came from wallets Arkham Intelligence, a blockchain analytics firm, later linked to Guren "Bobby" Zhou, a businessman under an active UK money-laundering investigation since 2021: a $20 million purchase in January 2025, publicly announced by Zhou's Web3Port Foundation as $10 million, and an $80 million purchase in June 2025, publicly announced by the separate Aqua 1 Foundation as a $100 million investment. Roughly $75 million of the combined proceeds reached a Trump-family-controlled company. In September 2025, Accountable.US reported WLFI had sold tokens to wallets with prior ties to Iran's largest crypto exchange and a Treasury-sanctioned ruble token, prompting a Senate request for a Treasury and DOJ investigation. In October 2025, Trump pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, whose exchange had listed WLFI's USD1 stablecoin and settled a $2 billion Abu Dhabi investment through it, days before the SEC dropped its case against Binance. In June 2026, the White House hosted a UFC event at which fighter bonuses were funded and paid out in WLFI's USD1 stablecoin, pairing the office of the presidency directly with the venture's promotion.

Individually, each entry documents a distinct transaction, regulatory action, or event. Grouped together, they document a sustained pattern in which the president's family has drawn income and goodwill through WLFI from counterparties carrying legal, sanctions, or reputational red flags, and has used the presidency itself to promote the venture.