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Trumpcoin Launches With a Whimper

Investors scooped up only a small number of the Trump family's new World Liberty Financial crypto tokens after website reliability issues interfered with a launch event.

The Trump family’s new crypto venture, World Liberty Financial, is off to an inauspicious start after website crashes limited the ability for investors to participate in an inaugural token sale event. World Liberty Financial adviser Sandy Peng told crypto media outlet CoinDesk that the website went down due to a surge in traffic. In the manifesto published on October 11, which promised to illuminate the Trumps’ “vision for revolutionizing finance” but ultimately shed little light, World Liberty Financial explained that the WLFI token will give people the ability to vote on the future development of the platform.

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