Donald Trump’s WLFI token sale 96% short of $300 million goal
Donald Trump’s new crypto project World Liberty Financial has faceplanted again after it was revealed that, three days into its public token offering, insiders sold less than 4% of their goal of 20 billion WLFI tokens. This news comes after researchers discovered that World Liberty hired workers from hacked crypto project Dough Finance, X (formerly Twitter) suspended the Rug Radio presenter who hosted its debut, and the website repeatedly crashed on its token sale day. World Liberty Financial’s website admits that it still hasn’t sold 19.2 billion of the tokens it had hoped to. Indeed, as of publication time, it has raised less than $12 million of the intended $300 million . Although insiders claimed to have whitelisted over 100,000 wallets for the initial coin offering (ICO), fewer than 10% of those wallets have participated. As disappointments proliferated, its team began damage control. The project cut its target for token sales to public buyers from 63% to 35%. It na...