The OCC issued preliminary conditional approval on August 14, 2026, for World Liberty Trust Company, National Association, to charter as a national trust bank handling USD1 stablecoin issuance, redemption, and digital asset custody services.
The Daily Hodl•Daily Hodl Agent18 Aug
World Liberty Financial has received preliminary OCC approval to establish a national trust bank that would issue USD1, manage its reserves, and provide digital asset custody across the United States. World Liberty bank cannot open until conditions are met The…
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) gave World Liberty Financial, a DeFi venture associated with President Donald Trump, preliminary conditional approval to charter a national trust bank built around its roughly $4 billion USD1 stablecoin. World Liberty Trust Company would eventually handle USD1 issuance and reserve custody directly, moving both under federal […]
CryptoSlate•Gino Matos16 Aug
The proposed World Liberty Trust Company would take over issuance of the USD1 stablecoin from BitGo.
But, is President Trump at risk of conflicts of interest as a result of the charter?
AMBCrypto•Ishika Kumari15 Aug
The conditional approval would allow it to bring the issuance and custody of its USD1 stablecoin under its own federally supervised trust bank.
World Liberty Financial has received preliminary OCC approval to establish a national trust bank that would oversee more than $4 billion in USD1 stablecoin circulation. World Liberty Financial must meet OCC conditions The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency…
World Liberty Financial, the Trump family-linked decentralized finance (DeFi) firm, cleared its first major banking hurdle on Friday after the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) granted preliminary conditional approval for a national trust bank. The Aug. 14 decision gives World Liberty Trust Company, National Association, a route to bring USD1 issuance, […]
Bitcoin.com News•Jamie Redman15 Aug
A Trump-appointed regulator cleared World Liberty to run its own bank and issue the $4 billion USD1 stablecoin.
BeInCrypto•Lockridge Okoth14 Aug
Solana's stablecoin market cap surpassed $15 billion as USD1 and USDGO push the non-USDC/USDT segment to an all-time high of $4.81 billion.
USD1's circulating supply expanded 9.7% over the past seven days to $4.85 billion, a 100th-percentile move that pushes the World Liberty Financial-issued stablecoin past Sky's USDS in net weekly inflows.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team22 Jun
The federal trust bank charter grant would allow World Liberty to issue and redeem its USD1 stablecoin under a single federal regulator.
The Block•Danny Park17 Jun
A spokesperson for the Democratic National Committee decried the move as “an opportunity to use the power of the presidency to make [Trump] and his family even richer.”
Cointelegraph•Cointelegraph by Turner Wright15 Jun
A spokesperson for the Democratic National Committee decried the move as “an opportunity to use the power of the presidency to make [Trump] and his family even richer.”
Cointelegraph•Turner Wright15 Jun
Bitcoin Magazine BitGo Joins Fortune 500 with $16.2B Revenue, Marking Milestone for Regulated Bitcoin Infrastructure CEO Mike Belshe’s firm, now operating as a federally chartered OCC trust bank, powers custody for major Bitcoin ETFs, stablecoins like World Liberty Financial’s USD1, and SoFiUSD, highlighting institutional adoption of regulated crypto infrastructure. This post BitGo Joins Fortune 500 with $16.2B Revenue, Marking Milestone for Regulated Bitcoin Infrastructure first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Juan Galt .
UFC Freedom 250. The mixed martial arts and "WLFI crypto" event is held on the White House on June 14, President Trump 80th birthday.
UFC Freedom 250 gained a lot of media coverage as the event took place at the South Lawn of the White House premises. Several high-profile fights were scheduled at UFC Freedom 250, which garnered attention from sports enthusiasts as well as from cryptocurrency investors. While fights were taking place in
TheNewsCrypto•Lakshya Baskar15 Jun
World Liberty Financial has committed $250,000 in USD1 stablecoin bonuses for UFC Freedom 250, as its dollar-pegged token’s circulating supply has reached about $4.4 billion and the project continues to face regulatory and political scrutiny. According to Sporting News, the…
Trump-backed World Liberty Financial funded a $250,000 Performance of the Night bonus pool at UFC Freedom 250, distributing the awards in its USD1 stablecoin on the White House South Lawn.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team14 Jun
World Liberty Financial is using Sunday’s UFC Freedom 250 at the White House to put its USD1 stablecoin directly into fighters’ hands, marking one of the most visible real-world deployments of a Trump family crypto product to date. WLFI Puts $250K Into the Bonus Pool The Trump-linked crypto firm announced it would serve as the […]
Bitcoin.com News•Jamie Redman14 Jun