Trump’s WLFI tripled Ether holdings in a week amid market downturn

The decentralized finance (DeFi) platform linked to US President Donald Trump significantly increased its Ether holdings over the past week as the cryptocurrency’s price briefly dipped below $2,000.
Trump’s World Liberty Financial (WLFI) DeFi platform has tripled its Ether (ETH) holdings over the past seven days as ETH fell below the $2,000 psychological mark, reversing from $1,991 on March 4, Cointelegraph Markets Pro data shows.
ETH/USD, 1-month chart. Source: Cointelegraph
Data provided by Arkham Intelligence shows WLFI now holds about $10 million more in Ether than a week earlier. Its latest acquisitions also include an additional $10 million in Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) and $1.5 million in Movement Network (MOVE) tokens.
Source: Arkham Intelligence
Trump’s DeFi platform is currently sitting on a total unrealized loss of over $89 million across the nine tokens it invested in, Lookonchain data shows.
Source: Lookonchain
The dip buying came during a period of heightened market volatility and investor concerns, driven by both macroeconomic concerns and crypto-specific events, including the $1.4 billion Bybit hack on Feb. 21, the largest exploit in crypto history.
The recent dip also resulted in a “broader flight toward safety in crypto markets,” prompting investors to seek safer assets with more predictable yields, such as tokenized real-world assets (RWA), according to a Binance Research report shared with Cointelegraph.
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Trump’s WLFI launches “Macro Strategy” fund for Bitcoin, Ether, altcoins
WLFI’s latest digital asset investments occurred nearly a month after the platform unveiled the “Macro Strategy” fund for Bitcoin (BTC), Ether and other cryptocurrencies “at the forefront of reshaping global finance.”
According to a Feb. 11 announcement, the fund aims to strengthen those projects and expand their roles in the evolving financial ecosystem:
“Together, we are building a legacy that bridges the worlds of traditional and decentralized finance, setting new standards for the industry.”
The fund aims to “enhance stability” by diversifying the platform’s holdings across a “spectrum of tokenized assets” to ensure a “resilient financial system” and to invest in “emerging opportunities within the DeFi landscape.”
Source: WLFI
The announcement came three weeks after widespread speculation about the Trump family launching a “giant” business on Ethereum, according to Joseph Lubin, co-founder of Ethereum and founder of Consensys.
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“Based on what I am aware of, the Trump family will build one or more giant businesses on Ethereum,” Lubin wrote. “The Trump administration will do what is good for the USA, and that will involve ETH.”
Lubin suggested that the Trump administration might eventually integrate Ethereum technology into government activities, similar to its current use of internet protocols.
Ether is currently the largest holding of WLFI, followed by $14.9 million worth of WBTC and $13.2 million worth of the USDT (USDT) stablecoin.
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Bitcoin (BTC) $ 119,760.00
Ethereum (ETH) $ 3,715.23
XRP (XRP) $ 3.54
Tether (USDT) $ 1.00
Solana (SOL) $ 202.03
BNB (BNB) $ 775.93
USDC (USDC) $ 0.999905
Dogecoin (DOGE) $ 0.267971
Lido Staked Ether (STETH) $ 3,701.88
Cardano (ADA) $ 0.893128
TRON (TRX) $ 0.313552
Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) $ 119,404.00
Hyperliquid (HYPE) $ 44.93
Stellar (XLM) $ 0.472073
Wrapped stETH (WSTETH) $ 4,475.44
Sui (SUI) $ 3.98
Chainlink (LINK) $ 19.46
Wrapped Beacon ETH (WBETH) $ 3,983.82
Hedera (HBAR) $ 0.271643
Avalanche (AVAX) $ 25.38
Wrapped eETH (WEETH) $ 3,974.10
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) $ 524.83
Shiba Inu (SHIB) $ 0.000015
Litecoin (LTC) $ 118.24
LEO Token (LEO) $ 8.98
Toncoin (TON) $ 3.35
WETH (WETH) $ 3,715.80
USDS (USDS) $ 1.00
Polkadot (DOT) $ 4.48
Binance Bridged USDT (BNB Smart Chain) (BSC-USD) $ 1.00
Coinbase Wrapped BTC (CBBTC) $ 119,683.00
Ethena USDe (USDE) $ 1.00
WhiteBIT Coin (WBT) $ 44.81
Uniswap (UNI) $ 10.69
Monero (XMR) $ 317.81
Pepe (PEPE) $ 0.000014
Bitget Token (BGB) $ 4.82
Aave (AAVE) $ 307.60
Bittensor (TAO) $ 446.98
Cronos (CRO) $ 0.124802
Ethena Staked USDe (SUSDE) $ 1.19
Pi Network (PI) $ 0.485897
Dai (DAI) $ 0.999874
NEAR Protocol (NEAR) $ 2.99
Ethereum Classic (ETC) $ 24.05
Aptos (APT) $ 5.40
Ondo (ONDO) $ 1.09
Jito Staked SOL (JITOSOL) $ 246.00
Internet Computer (ICP) $ 6.06
Ethena (ENA) $ 0.500650
Kaspa (KAS) $ 0.112529
OKB (OKB) $ 48.53
Bonk (BONK) $ 0.000037
Mantle (MNT) $ 0.825223
Pudgy Penguins (PENGU) $ 0.041660
Algorand (ALGO) $ 0.294233
Arbitrum (ARB) $ 0.474962
BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL) $ 1.00
Worldcoin (WLD) $ 1.35
VeChain (VET) $ 0.027802
Render (RENDER) $ 4.51
Cosmos Hub (ATOM) $ 5.04
POL (ex-MATIC) (POL) $ 0.251514
Binance-Peg WETH (WETH) $ 3,718.78
USD1 (USD1) $ 1.00
Official Trump (TRUMP) $ 10.96
Artificial Superintelligence Alliance (FET) $ 0.811908
Gate (GT) $ 17.57
Sei (SEI) $ 0.349756
Binance Staked SOL (BNSOL) $ 214.43
Filecoin (FIL) $ 2.89
Fasttoken (FTN) $ 4.50
Quant (QNT) $ 132.64
Jupiter (JUP) $ 0.625481
Sky (SKY) $ 0.086492
SPX6900 (SPX) $ 1.98
sUSDS (SUSDS) $ 1.06
Kelp DAO Restaked ETH (RSETH) $ 3,884.31
Rocket Pool ETH (RETH) $ 4,227.65
Lombard Staked BTC (LBTC) $ 119,469.00
Fartcoin (FARTCOIN) $ 1.65
Jupiter Perpetuals Liquidity Provider Token (JLP) $ 5.22
Flare (FLR) $ 0.023130
Celestia (TIA) $ 2.19
KuCoin (KCS) $ 12.03
XDC Network (XDC) $ 0.094467
Story (IP) $ 5.03
Injective (INJ) $ 15.06
USDtb (USDTB) $ 0.999835
First Digital USD (FDUSD) $ 0.998995
FLOKI (FLOKI) $ 0.000146
Stacks (STX) $ 0.887513
StakeWise Staked ETH (OSETH) $ 3,904.85
Optimism (OP) $ 0.791897
Mantle Staked Ether (METH) $ 3,976.50
USDT0 (USDT0) $ 1.00
NEXO (NEXO) $ 1.34
Liquid Staked ETH (LSETH) $ 4,009.78
Curve DAO (CRV) $ 0.957798
Pump.fun (PUMP) $ 0.003663