World Liberty Financial price

Recently, Aqua 1, a little-known Web3 fund, announced that it has strategically purchased WLFI, the governance token of the Trump family project World Liberty Financial ("WLFI"). As early as two weeks before the announcement, on-chain data had captured clues: an ENS address called "aqua 1.eth" spent a total of $80 million to buy at least 800 million WLFI tokens in batches. Of the $100 million subscription, the remaining $20 million has not yet been discovered. The fund is quite secretive, and the official domain name was only registered on May 28. According to public information, Aqua 1 is headquartered in the United Arab Emirates and focuses on primary market investment and secondary asset management in the Web3 field. Following the investment in WLFI, Aqua 1 will also co-develop and incubate BlockRock, an institutional-grade RWA platform, with plans to set up another fund, Aqua Fund, in the Middle East. Having invested hundreds of millions of dollars on the Trump family project at the beginning of its establishment, what is Aqua 1? What is its secret connection to the Trump family? Image courtesy of Reuters The founder, Dave Lee, may be a Chinese South American chaebol According to people close to Aqua 1, Aqua 1's founder and general partner, Dave Lee, has a big background. Dave Lee graduated from New York University Business School, has worked in UBS, Tiger Global and other well-known Wall Street institutions, has nearly 10 years of experience in traditional investment banking and cross-border M&A funds, and is familiar with the operation logic of global capital markets and strategic investment layout. Less well known than his Wall Street background is Dave Lee's South American chaebol background. Dave Lee comes from a prominent business family of Chinese descent in Brazil, and his family's business spans key sectors such as import and export trade, mining, real estate, energy, and sports and entertainment. It is reported that he has close ties with some of the most powerful royals in the Middle East, and the two sides may be brewing a series of strategic cooperation. Despite his background, Dave Lee rarely talks publicly about his family's affairs, and there are still many unanswered questions about his business layout. According to people familiar with the matter, his investment movements often have long-term strategic intentions and often coincide with subtle changes in international capital flows. Some analysts believe that the resource network behind him may be far beyond what appears on the surface, and in the future, it may carry out more secretive and far-reaching operations in many key markets around the world. It may not be coincidental that Aqua 1 reached a strategic cooperation with WLFI in its first investment, and behind it is a professional team that has been deeply engaged in the Web3 field for ten years, with rich experience in key technical fields such as distributed system development and cryptoeconomic design, as well as capital background and industrial resources across South and North America. Throwing $100 million at the RWA trillion dollar market? Aqua 1's $100 million strategic partnership with the Trump family's project WLFI may not be a simple financial investment, but a key step for Aqua 1 in the Web3 field, especially in the direction of RWA. As can be seen from the investment news announced by Aqua 1, the purpose of this investment is to accelerate the construction of a financial ecosystem with blockchain development, RWA tokenization, and stablecoin integration as the core. With the imminent passage of the GENIUS Stablecoin Act in the United States, RWA, stablecoins, and crypto payments are the core tracks of this year, and they are also the key directions for Aqua 1 bets. As a project participated in and supported by Trump and his family members, WLFI's Web3 layout is directly aimed at RWA and stablecoins, and its goal is to integrate the stability of traditional finance and the openness of blockchain, and is committed to becoming a bridge between traditional finance and the future digital world. The current digital dollar stablecoin USD1 launched by WLFI is also the first president-endorsed stablecoin, and its market capitalization has exceeded $2.2 billion. USD1's political background aura has also helped it become one of the most high-profile and potential stablecoins after USDT and USDC. In terms of accelerated adoption, USD1 has been adopted by nearly 20 CEXs or DeFi protocols and crypto wallets. USD1 has also gradually penetrated into payment scenarios such as real-world consumption, WLFI has launched a global debit card that supports USD1, and AEON Pay has integrated USD1, which can be used by more than 20 million offline merchants in Southeast Asia. For Aqua 1, which has multiple traditional industrial resources in South America, more important than the $100 million financial investment is to catch the Trump family's RWA Express and quickly open up the market for the tokenization of its traditional industry resources. For WLFI, the Aqua 1 team can also assist WLFI in expanding into South America, Europe, Asia and emerging markets. At present, no further details have been announced about the RWA platform BlockRock, which Aqua 1 plans to jointly develop and incubate with WLFI. However, it can be expected that the commercial footprint of Aqua 1 and WLFI in traditional fields, as well as the political forces behind it, will bring a natural advantage to BlockRock's compliance and growth. Bet on the strategic ambitions behind the Trump family project On the face of it, Aqua 1's first investment in WLFI is aimed at expanding RWA, but its strategic ambitions may go far beyond that. The vision of the group behind Aqua 1 seems to be to integrate the resources of the Middle East, South America and North America, trying to build a cross-regional Web3 ecological network. Judging by the name Aqua 1 and the future plans announced by its team, Aqua 1 may just be the future branch of the group behind it. According to the press release, WLFI will also help the Aqua 1 team set up another fund, the "Aqua Fund", in the Middle East. The foundation works with key interest groups in the Middle East to accelerate the transformation of the Middle East's digital economy through blockchain infrastructure, AI integration, and Web3 applications, and also plans to list on secondary trading markets such as the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) to provide liquidity to investors. The reason why Aqua 1 was successfully invested in WLFI may also be based on the foundation of cooperation between the group behind it and the Trump family in the traditional business field. By investing in WLFI, Aqua 1 also quickly formed a strategic alliance with the presidential family in the Web3 chess game. Aqua 1's roots in South America and emerging markets, as well as the Trump family's business and political influence in North America and around the world, complement each other's capabilities in the Web3 space. By integrating financial innovation in the Middle East, resource networks in South America, and market influence in North America, Aqua 1 and WLFI may be joining forces to build a global Web3 financial ecosystem.

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I’ve been digging into @TharwaUAE a fair bit recently, most notably because I’ve publicly been an advocate of a potential stablecoin meta that’s been brewing beneath the surface for sometime. We’re seeing a big shift in that landscape right now due to America’s GENIUS Act, the introduction of World Liberty Finance, and the general global attitude towards stablecoin payments. Stablecoins are becoming more and more mainstream and with Ondo, Maple, World Liberty Finance gaining some serious traction the past couple of months and well, this just proves my theory of it brewing - just look at those charts and tvls. Naturally, when we’ve got those performing the way they have and large institutions like Blackrock providing the rails for TradFi into DeFi, you’d be silly not to take what Tharwa is building seriously. So, Tharwa: • stablecoin, $thUSD, backed by real-world assets • diversified mix: gold, oil, real estate, t-bills (sukuk) • returns come from legit RWA fund activity, not crypto loops • AI manages the fund, adjusts in real time based on risk • no depeg ponzinomics, no crypto overcollateral bs (Luna ptsd) • $TRWA token that captures protocol revenue (mgmt + perf fees), gives governance rights, and boosts yield if staked/locked • fully sharia-compliant and UAE-based with doxxed founders (more on this below) • first to tokenize diversified multi-asset funds (not just treasuries or one asset) • vaults coming soon? w/ real returns paid in $thUSD • partnering with some interesting tradfi companies • points campaign live rn, 20% supply is locked for points campaign, multiple seasons, airdrops are vested. So yeah, at first glance, you’d be mistaken to think, okay just looks like someone who’s doing an RWA hedge fund. But then I started to learn about Islamic Finance. Keep in mind, I’m an Australian who loves nothing more than a cold beer and watching tourists get caught in rips at our popular beaches. So the thought that certain financial instruments were off-limits to a particular group of people in the world had never occurred to me. If you’re an uninformed white boy like I am, Islam prohibits interest (riba), speculation (gharar), and investing in anything considered haram (bad). Basically, a whole lot of TradFi and DeFi is a no-go. According to one of Tharwa’s recent posts, the global Islamic finance market will surpass $7.5 trillion by 2028. If these guys have built something that can onramp a portion of this capital into DeFi whilst being compliant, then we might have a serious winner on our hands, considering most projects like Ondo, Maple and WLFI don’t have the rails yet for this. So who’s building this bloody thing? "Saeed Al Fahim" appears to be the CEO, with a publicly doxxed video introducing himself on their socials. Al Fahim is an interesting name in UAE. Turns out Saeed comes from THE Al Fahim family, one of the OG business dynasties in the region. Think real estate, automotive, energy, philanthropy, proper movers. So yeah, not like your average anon dev puishing vapourware. This guy appears to be connected? He’s pulling in legal advisors, fund managers, and asset allocators from day one. They’ve recently partnered with Global Frontier Capital, some green sustainable investment fund (hippies? LOL) but what I found interesting was their close ties to another company, Neovision Wealth, based in UAE and managing many large funds. Back to the Al Fahim name, I started digging further and happened to come across a “Mohammad AlFahim”, who currently is Managing Director at Blackrock UAE. Now, idn if the Al Fahim name is as big as the “Smith” last name in English culture, i.e are they related? But that is a very interesting connection indeed and worth noting. I’m a big believer of backing the right people in this industry and I try to always do my research on them prior, it payed of well for me with Keeta and now I think this will be no different. Backing the right people has always been a winning strategy in finance, especially in early stages. Now, I’ve seen a bunch of people calling out the bundle, yeah, there is one and I can see nothing’s been sold. 90% of projects do it these days to protect the floor. I see both arguments, I'm not having this debate. I don’t see an Al Fahim family member based in UAE doing anything dodgy with what's been bundled as I think he'd be dragged across the coals if he ever so slightly tarnished the family name. But take that with a grain of salt, I've been wrong plenty of times before. So there's obviously a gap here in the market for a protocol such as this and they've got a strong founder with what appears to have very interesting connections. Website is pretty shit, my design OCD was killing me, dapp is in MVP so I'll give that a pass, they've been audited which is good to see. If they can continue building out their product, lock in more institutional partners and give thUSD more liquidity depth, then this might be an Arab like Ondo. But I'll be honest, it's still super early days and they got a long road to go. Anyway, if you're still reading this thanks for listening to my ted talk. Tried to do a more raw/honest format and take with this one cause CT is just full of AI threadoor these days and Im fucken sick of it. Love yahs, hooroo. Socials: X - @TharwaUAE Chart - (I haven't been paid to post, I bought a bag)

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