特朗普一家人控制了加密货币，因为它筹集了超过十亿美元

随着世界自由金融筹集了超过十亿美元，唐纳德·特朗普总统的家人控制了加密货币，并抓住了这些资金中的狮子

President Donald Trump’s family has taken control of a crypto venture that has raised more than half a billion dollars and will claim the lion’s share of those funds, aided by governance terms that industry experts say favor insiders.

唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）总统的家人已经控制了一家加密货币，该公司筹集了超过十亿美元，并将在政府专家表示支持内部人士的治理条款的帮助下，声称这是这些资金中的狮子份额。

The venture, called World Liberty, launched last fall with the goal of allowing people to access financial services using cryptocurrencies and without intermediaries like banks in what is called decentralized finance, or DeFi.

该合资企业被称为世界自由，于去年秋天成立，目的是允许人们使用加密货币获得金融服务，并且没有像银行这样的中介机构在所谓的分散财务或DEFI中获得金融服务。

But it has yet to launch a public platform and reports only a small staff, a review of the project shows.

但是，该项目的审查显示，它尚未启动公共平台并仅报告小型员工。

Even so, World Liberty said in mid-March it had raised $550 million selling so-called governance tokens. Most of those sales took place after Trump’s election win in November, Reuters calculations show.

即便如此，世界自由女士在3月中旬表示，它筹集了5.5亿美元的出售所谓的治理令牌。路透社计算显示，大多数销售都是在特朗普在11月赢得胜利之后进行的。

The tokens, which go by the symbol $WLFI, give holders the right to vote on changes to the project’s underlying code and to signal their opinion on its direction and plans. They cannot be traded.

由符号$ wlfi的代币赋予持有者对项目基础代码更改的投票权，并向他们对其方向和计划的看法发出信号。他们不能交易。

As its fundraising got traction, World Liberty disclosed in January that the Trump family had taken control of the business, a review of changes in the fine print on World Liberty’s website shows. Two of its co-founders, crypto entrepreneurs Zak Folkman and Chase Herro, were replaced as the controlling parties of World Liberty by an entity in which the Trump family holds a 60% stake.

随着筹款活动的吸引力，世界自由在一月份透露，特朗普家族已经控制了该业务，对世界自由网站上的精美印刷品的变化进行了审查。它的两个联合创始人，加密企业家扎克·福克曼（Zak Folkman）和蔡斯·赫罗（Chase Herro）被一个世界自由的控制党所取代，特朗普家族拥有60％的股份的实体。

The changes have not been previously reported.

这些更改尚未报告。

Overall, the Trump family now has a claim on 75% of net revenues from token sales and 60% from World Liberty operations once the core business gets going. The arrangement means the Trump family is currently entitled to about $400 million in fees. After World Liberty's co-founders take their cut, the crypto venture will be left with 5% of the $550 million raised to date to build the platform, according to Reuters calculations.

总体而言，特朗普家族现在对代币销售额的75％的净收入索赔，一旦核心业务发展，世界自由业务的60％。该安排意味着特朗普家族目前有权获得约4亿美元的费用。根据路透社的计算，世界自由联合创始人裁员后，加密货币将留下迄今为止筹集的5.5亿美元的5％以建立该平台。

The arrangements, including the Trump family’s large share of the project’s revenues and the non-tradeable nature of the governance tokens, make World Liberty unusually centralized for the industry, according to a survey of the practices of the five largest DeFi lending platforms and interviews with four U.S. academics who study the crypto industry.

根据对五个最大的Defi Lending平台和对研究Crypto行业的四个美国学术界的采访的调查，包括特朗普家族在项目收入中的很大一部分以及治理令牌的不可交易性质，使世界自由派异常集中。

"It's hard for me to see any economic benefit to the owner of these tokens," said Jim Angel, an associate professor at Georgetown University who has written about DeFi regulation.

乔治敦大学副教授吉姆·安吉尔（Jim Angel）说：“我很难看到这些代币的所有者的任何经济利益。”

David Krause, a longtime finance professor at Marquette University in Milwaukee who recently published a study of World Liberty, said that the structure of the project “pretty much excludes public investors or token holders from any meaningful financial participation.”

密尔沃基马奎特大学的长期财务教授戴维·克劳斯（David Krause）最近发表了一项关于世界自由的研究，他说，该项目的结构“将公共投资者或代币持有人排除在任何有意义的财务参与之外。”

A White House spokesperson referred questions about World Liberty to the Trump Organization. The Trump Organization's chief legal officer and the president's two older sons, who are executives at the company, did not respond to requests for comment.

白宫发言人将有关世界自由的问题转交给特朗普组织。特朗普组织的首席法律官和总统的两个年长儿子是该公司的高管，他们没有回应置评请求。

The Trump Organization announced in January that the president's investments, assets and business interests would be held in a trust managed by his children and he would play no role in day-to-day operations or decision-making. The family's business also retained an attorney to serve as an ethics adviser in order to "avoid any perceived conflicts of interest."

特朗普组织在一月份宣布，总统的投资，资产和商业利益将由其子女管理的信托基金会举行，他将在日常运营或决策中不发挥作用。该家庭的业务还保留了律师作为道德顾问的律师，以“避免任何感知的利益冲突”。

Folkman and Herro did not reply to Reuters questions in person and in writing. In a post on social media platform X on March 14, World Liberty said it “is a DeFi project with a tremendous mission to build and democratize a new financial system for the benefit of millions.”

Folkman和Herro没有亲自和书面回答路透社的问题。在3月14日的社交媒体平台X上的一篇文章中，世界自由女神（World Liberty）表示，“这是一个违规项目，其使命是建立和民主化新的金融体系，以使数百万的利益受益。”

At a conference in February, Herro said the plan was to open crypto investing to everyday Americans such as teachers, dentists and firemen. His business partner, Donald Trump Jr, the president's son, has complained about the family being excluded from traditional banking in the aftermath of his father's first term.

在2月的一次会议上，赫罗说，该计划是向老师，牙医和消防员等日常美国人开放加密货币投资。他的商业伙伴唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump Jr）是总统的儿子，在父亲的第一任期后，他抱怨这个家庭被排除在传统银行业务之外。

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The Trump family’s involvement in World Liberty ties the personal fortunes of a sitting U.S. president to an asset class that sits at the outer edges of both risk and regulation.

特朗普家族参与世界自由的参与将美国现任总统的个人命运与处于风险和监管外部边缘的资产类别。

Trump has promised to be the “crypto president,” who will popularize its mainstream use in America. He has said he backs crypto because it can improve the banking system and increase the dominance of the U.S. dollar.

特朗普已承诺将成为“加密总统”，他将普及其在美国的主流使用。他说他支持加密货币，因为它可以改善银行体系并提高美元的统治地位。

At the same time, the Trump family, long rooted in skyscrapers and country clubs, has opened beachheads in crypto, quickly gaining hundreds of millions of dollars. A so-called meme coin promoted by Trump has generated at least $349 million in fees for entities connected to the president, according to crypto data firm Chainalysis.

同时，长期以来一直扎根于摩天大楼和乡村俱乐部的特朗普家族在加密货币上开设了Beachheads，迅速获得了数亿美元。据加密数据公司链分析称，特朗普推广的所谓模因硬币至少为与总统有关的实体产生了3.49亿美元的费用。

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The prospect of Trump and his family benefiting from deregulation has drawn criticism from his political opponents and some government ethics experts who say it creates the potential for conflicts of interest and influence peddling.

特朗普及其家人从放松管制中受益的前景引起了他的政治反对者和一些政府伦理专家的批评，他们说这产生了利益冲突和影响兜售的潜力。

"You've got the guy in charge who is responsible for his own regulation," said Ross Delston, a former U.S. banking

“你有一个负责自己的监管的人，”美国前银行业的罗斯·德尔斯顿（Ross Delston）说