The Trump family’s crypto venture gathered leading Wall Street executives, regulators and digital asset figures at Mar-a-Lago on Wednesday for its inaugural World Liberty Forum.
Coinbase chief executive Brian Armstrong, Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao and Goldman Sachs chief executive David Solomon joined the heads of Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange alongside US lawmakers and regulators at the Florida event.
“The great irony is this whole world has gone full circle,”
Eric Trump said at the forum, according to Bloomberg, as traditional finance executives signalled a warmer stance towards digital assets.
Solomon, who has previously expressed scepticism about cryptocurrencies, told attendees he now owns “a little Bitcoin, very little,” reflecting a broader shift in tone among established financial institutions.
“There’s people in this room that were probably on the opposite side of us, that were canceling bank accounts for us, that were kicking us out of their big banks for no reason other than the fact that my father was wearing a hat that said, ‘Make America Great Again,’”
Eric Trump said, and following the announcement the Trump Organisation share price was unchanged at $0.00.
World Liberty also announced a partnership with tokenisation firm Securitise to issue loan revenue interest tokens tied to a Trump-branded resort under development in the Maldives, which is being built by DarGlobal and is scheduled for completion in 2030 with 100 luxury villas.
The company said the offering would form part of a broader strategy to structure and distribute branded tokenised real-world assets, providing accredited US investors with “both a fixed yield and loan revenue streams” as exposure to income distributions and potential profits from any future sale.
At the time of reporting, World Liberty Financial price was $0.1165.