Trump-Backed WLFI Debuts at $0.35, Surges 60% to $9B Market Cap

WLFI held a public token sale on October 15, 2024, offering tokens at $0.015 and $0.05 and raising $550 million from 85,000 investors. The presale price surged 20× to $0.319 before launch. A July governance vote enabled WLFI’s ERC-20 governance token to become fully transferable. On September 1, 2025, WLFI officially launched on exchanges including Binance, Coinbase, OKX, Bitget and on DEX Hyperliquid. It opened at $0.35—up 60% from its initial tradable price—and reached a market cap of roughly $9 billion. On launch night, the team deployed $2 million of USD1 stablecoin to purchase 6.5 million WLFI, signalling strong insider confidence. WLFI operates alongside USD1, a fully collateralized USD stablecoin backed by U.S. Treasuries and cash equivalents. USD1 is deployed on Ethereum, BNB Chain, Solana and Tron to enable low-cost global transactions. Tokenomics feature an initial circulating supply of 24.67 billion WLFI: 10 billion unlocked for ecosystem growth; 7.78 billion sold to Nasdaq-listed ALT5 Sigma, granting board seats to Eric Trump and Zach Witkoff; 2.88 billion for liquidity and marketing; and 4 billion to public sale participants. Locked allocations include the vault (19.96 billion), team (33.51 billion), locked sale (16.02 billion) and partners (5.85 billion).