唐纳德·特朗普对加密货币的拥抱已经完成

这位前总统和现任共和党总统候选人曾经是加密货币批评家，他所做的不仅仅是支持华盛顿特区的行业目标。

Former President Donald Trump and his sons are now fully embracing the crypto industry. After endorsing the industry’s goals in Washington, D.C., Trump and his sons have now launched World Liberty Financial, a decentralised finance project for lending dollar-pegged stablecoins.

前总统唐纳德·特朗普和他的儿子们现在完全拥抱加密货币行业。在华盛顿特区认可该行业的目标后，特朗普和他的儿子们现在推出了 World Liberty Financial，这是一个用于借贷与美元挂钩的稳定币的去中心化金融项目。

As with many of Trump’s business endeavors, World Liberty is shrouded in a cloud of doubt and promises. The venture boasts a diverse group of figures, some well-known in crypto circles and others less so.

与特朗普的许多商业活动一样，世界自由也笼罩在怀疑和承诺的阴云之中。该公司拥有多元化的人物，其中一些在加密货币圈中很有名气，而另一些则不太知名。

So, who exactly is riding shotgun in Trump’s odd DeFi vehicle?

那么，到底是谁在特朗普奇怪的 DeFi 车辆上坐枪呢？

World Liberty’s “gold paper” lists Trump and his three sons — Donald Junior, Eric, and Barron — as members of the project’s support team. The former president is listed as chief crypto advocate while his sons are so-called web3 ambassadors. An earlier draft of the gold paper listed 18-year-old Barron as “DeFi visionary.”

世界自由组织的“金纸”将特朗普和他的三个儿子——小唐纳德、埃里克和巴伦——列为该项目支持团队的成员。这位前总统被列为首席加密倡导者，而他的儿子则是所谓的 web3 大使。金纸的早期草稿将 18 岁的巴伦列为“DeFi 梦想家”。

Trump’s youngest son was once linked to a family-themed memecoin called DJT. Martin Shkreli, the convicted investment manager and social media personality, alleged that he and Barron created DJT, a Solana-based memecoin.

特朗普最小的儿子曾经与一种名为 DJT 的家庭主题模因币联系在一起。被定罪的投资经理兼社交媒体名人 Martin Shkreli 声称，他和 Barron 创建了 DJT，这是一种基于 Solana 的 memecoin。

Barron's link to the project was never confirmed, and he did not comment on the matter publicly. In August, unidentified players “rugged,” or withdrew, the majority of the DJT token’s liquidity, leaving investors with worthless assets.

巴伦与该项目的联系从未得到证实，他也没有公开评论此事。 8 月份，身份不明的参与者“强行”或撤回了 DJT 代币的大部分流动性，使投资者的资产变得一文不值。

Eric Trump, executive vice president and trustee of the Trump Organisation, is one of the project’s leading promoters, along with his brother Donald Trump Jr. The siblings first began teasing the project on social media posts in August.

特朗普组织执行副总裁兼受托人埃里克·特朗普 (Eric Trump) 和他的弟弟小唐纳德·特朗普 (Donald Trump Jr.) 是该项目的主要推动者之一。兄弟俩于 8 月首次在社交媒体帖子上调侃该项目。

Eric is no stranger to his father’s history of blurring the lines between family affairs and finance. He notably signed the reimbursement checks to former Trump lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen who handled the hush money payments to Stormy Daniels.

埃里克对他父亲模糊家庭事务和财务之间界限的历史并不陌生。值得注意的是，他签署了前特朗普律师兼调解人迈克尔·科恩的报销支票，科恩负责向斯托米·丹尼尔斯支付封口费。

In June, a New York state jury convicted Donald Trump for unlawfully covering up those payments as business expenses.

6 月，纽约州陪审团判定唐纳德·特朗普有罪，罪名是非法将这些付款掩盖为商业开支。

As for the Trump sons’ practical experience in crypto, there’s very little. Still, the former president said they changed his mind about the potential of the industry.

至于特朗普儿子们在加密领域的实践经验则很少。不过，这位前总统表示，他们改变了他对该行业潜力的看法。

World Liberty is a fork of a defunct DeFi project called Dough Finance and will be deployed on DeFi’s biggest lending protocol, Aave. Forks aren’t unusual in DeFi, but Dough Finance was exploited for $2.1 million this summer. The attack occurred after the developers failed to code a way for the smart contract to verify the actions of users trying to connect to another protocol.

World Liberty 是已停业的 DeFi 项目 Dough Finance 的一个分支，将部署在 DeFi 最大的借贷协议 Aave 上。分叉在 DeFi 中并不罕见，但今年夏天 Dough Finance 就被利用了 210 万美元。这次攻击发生在开发人员未能为智能合约编写一种方法来验证尝试连接到另一个协议的用户的操作之后。

Several Dough Finance developers are now involved in World Liberty, including Chase Herro, aka “Hero,” and his frequent collaborator Zachary Folkman, as well as blockchain developer Bogdan Purnavel who goes by the online moniker 0xboga.

几位 Dough Finance 开发人员现在参与了 World Liberty，包括 Chase Herro（又名“英雄”）和他的经常合作者 Zachary Folkman，以及在线昵称 0xboga 的区块链开发人员 Bogdan Purnavel。

Folkman and Herro are listed as co-founders alongside New York real estate magnate Steven Witkoff.

福克曼和希罗与纽约房地产巨头史蒂文·威特科夫一起被列为联合创始人。

Herro, a self-styled “dirtbag of the internet,” has a colorful backstory littered with several failed internet ventures, including a crypto trading platform called Pacer Capital. According to Bloomberg News, he said he made a fortune in internet advertising and dealt marijuana as a young man.

Herro 自诩为“互联网垃圾”，他的背景故事丰富多彩，其中充斥着几家失败的互联网企业，其中包括名为 Pacer Capital 的加密货币交易平台。据彭博社报道，他说他在互联网广告中赚了一大笔钱，年轻时还经营大麻。

The Witkoff Family

威特科夫家族

A longtime friend of Donald Trump’s, Steven Witkoff has donated $2 million to his campaigns. Witkoff’s sons, Alex and Zach, are listed as co-founders of World Liberty.

史蒂文·威特科夫 (Steven Witkoff) 是唐纳德·特朗普 (Donald Trump) 的老朋友，已为他的竞选活动捐赠了 200 万美元。威特科夫的儿子亚历克斯和扎克被列为世界自由组织的联合创始人。

Witkoff described Chase Herro and Zachary Folkman as “exceptionally bright people” in an X Spaces livestream to promote the project last month. He also said that World Liberty had been in development for “close to nine months.”

Witkoff 在上个月宣传该项目的 X Spaces 直播中将 Chase Herro 和 Zachary Folkman 描述为“非常聪明的人”。他还表示，World Liberty 的开发已经“近九个月”。

World Liberty also counts a retinue of advisers drawn from venture capitalists, lawyers, and blockchain engineers.

World Liberty 还拥有一批来自风险投资家、律师和区块链工程师的顾问。

Sandy Peng, co-founder of Ethereum layer-2 blockchain Scroll, is among the project’s advisers as is Polychain Capital general partner Luke Pearson.

以太坊二层区块链 Scroll 的联合创始人 Sandy Peng 和 Polychain Capital 的普通合伙人 Luke Pearson 都是该项目的顾问之一。

Accredited investors could begin participating in the World Liberty token sale on Tuesday.

合格投资者可以在周二开始参与 World Liberty 代币销售。

According to onchain data, more than 9,000 Ethereum wallet addresses are currently holders of the WLFI token.

根据链上数据，目前有超过 9000 个以太坊钱包地址持有 WLFI 代币。

Our Nigeria-based DeFi correspondent is Osato Avan-Nomayo. He covers DeFi and tech. Please contact him at osato@dlnews.com to share tips or information about stories.

我们驻尼日利亚的 DeFi 通讯员是 Osato Avan-Nomayo。他涵盖 DeFi 和科技。请通过 osato@dlnews.com 与他联系，分享有关故事的技巧或信息。