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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Eric Garcia

Trump family made upward of $6 billion in a day thanks to its crypto-coin launch: report

President Donald Trump and his family amassed as much as $6 billion on paper after their crypto venture opened trading for a new digital currency, The Wall Street Journal reported.

The Trump family launched the new cryptocurrency called WLFI on Monday in the crypto equivalent of an initial public offering. Before now, people who had bought the currency, which is from World Liberty Financial, had not been able to trade the tokens.

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