World Liberty Financial Inc. has quietly launched its USD1 stablecoin, which is now live and actively trading on both Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain, despite no formal launch announcement.
According to CoinMarketCap, USD1’s trading volume has surged by over 6,700% in the past 24 hours, currently at over $140 million—just days after its low-key debut. Its market cap currently stands at around $128 million. The USD1 logo is also now visible on both Binance and CoinMarketCap.
Blockchain analysts first spotted a USD1 smart contract deployment on Binance Smart Chain on 24 March. At the time, the activity appeared to be limited to testnet transactions, including interactions with wallets linked to the crypto market maker Wintermute. On March 25, WLFI confirmed the launch plans for USD1, but no launch date or exchange listing was provided.
The actual mainnet soft launch seems to have occurred around April 12, when the first liquidity pools involving USD1 were deployed on Uniswap V3 and PancakeSwap V3.
However, WLFI has yet to announce any centralized exchange listings. The launch appears to have been strategically quiet, allowing WLFI to test market traction and infrastructure under real conditions.
Trump’s ties to USD1—a stablecoin backed by U.S. Treasuries, cash, and equivalents with BitGo serving as the reserve custodian—have raised alarms among lawmakers and financial analysts alike.
During an April 2 hearing of the House Financial Services Committee focused on stablecoin regulation, Democratic Representative Maxine Waters said that Trump may intend to use USD1 to replace the U.S. dollar in government functions.
“Trump likely wants the entire government to use stablecoins, from payments made by the Department of Housing and Urban Development to Social Security payments to paying taxes. And which coin do you think Trump would replace the dollar with? His own, of course.”
Ari10 CEO Mateusz Kara said that Trump’s support for USD1 is less about embracing crypto and more about creating a new channel for global U.S. debt distribution.
“I don’t quite believe in Trump’s sudden love for stablecoin and blockchain,” Kara said in a statement sent to crypto.news. “The real purpose of strengthening the stablecoin market is to make the world a new, receptive market for U.S. bonds.”
