Blockworks reports that World Liberty Financial (WLFI), the Trump‑backed crypto platform, has been approaching blockchain projects with a proposal to conduct large “token swap” deals involving its still‑unlaunched WLFI token. According to messages reviewed by Blockworks, representatives have offered teams the chance to buy at least $10 million worth of WLFI at a 10% fee, with WLFI valued at a $1.5 billion fully diluted valuation, in exchange for World Liberty Financial purchasing an equivalent dollar amount of the project’s native token. The offer reportedly requires that none of the WLFI tokens received in the swap be subject to any vesting period, and sets $10 million as a minimum ticket size, with a suggestion that $15 million could secure “priority treatment.” This strategy comes ahead of the planned launch of the World Liberty Financial platform, which is expected to debut at a $1.5 billion FDV and is positioned as a DeFi venue where users can buy WLFI and, in time, earn yield and borrow against crypto collateral. Blockworks notes that, as of the time of its reporting, the only live functionality on the project’s website was the WLFI token sale itself, with marketing around substantial prior token sales and a large WLFI allocation and revenue share flowing to an entity affiliated with Donald Trump and his family. The token‑swap push matters because it illustrates how a politically connected, high‑profile crypto project is trying to bootstrap liquidity and bolster its treasury by getting other chains and projects to take sizeable, non‑vested positions in WLFI at a set valuation, raising questions about risk, incentives, and the influence of a major U.S. political figure’s business interests in the crypto ecosystem.

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