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TRON, Movement Labs Deny ‘Token Swap’ Deal for World Liberty Financial Inclusion
A report alleges that projects were pitched on a $10 million - $15 million buy-in on the Trump-backed project.
Feb 4, 2025, 5:18 a.m.
What to know:
- TRON says it was never pitched on a token swap deal for inclusion in WLFI.
- MOVE also says that its inclusion in the project's treasury was just market buying.
Representatives from two protocols that have tokens held by the treasury of , a crypto project backed by President Donald Trump and his family, are denying the existence of a token swap agreement that required a $10 million - $15 million buy-in to get included in the project.
A report from Blockworks on Monday alleged that representatives from WLFI had pitched protocol teams on a deal to get included in the project’s treasury. The deal was they could buy $10 million WLFI tokens plus a 10 percent fee, and WLFI will purchase the same amount of their protocol’s tokens.
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“There is no token swap agreement,” a spokesperson from TRON told CoinDesk.
TRON’s TRX is the second largest holding in WLFI’s wallet, according to on-chain data curated by Arkham.
The WLFI wallet currently holds 40.7 million TRX worth $9.3 million. WLFI made these buys in tranches throughout January.
Movement Labs, which saw its MOVE token jump in late January when WLFI purchased $2 million of it, and rumors swirled that the team was in discussion with Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency, also denied that there was a swap agreement in place.
Rushi Manche, co-founder of Movement Labs, told CoinDesk earlier that they did not send tokens to anyone including WLFI.
"There weren't any deals — any back door deals. It was purely just market buying," Manche told CoinDesk.
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