A subsidiary of World Liberty Financial, the decentralized finance firm co-founded by members of the Trump household, has submitted an utility to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to determine a nationwide belief financial institution purpose-built for stablecoin operations.
The constitution will place the nationwide belief financial institution, World Liberty Belief Firm, Nationwide Affiliation (WLTC), to difficulty and custody World Liberty Financial’s dollar-backed stablecoin, USD1, in response to a Wednesday (Jan. 7) press release.
WLTC plans to serve institutional prospects, together with cryptocurrency exchanges, market makers and funding companies, and supply digital asset custody and conversion companies that can allow holders of different stablecoins to shift to USD1, per the discharge.
The proposed president and chairman of WLTC, Zach Witkoff, stated within the launch that USD1 “grew quicker in its first 12 months than every other stablecoin” and that establishments are utilizing it for cross-border funds, settlement and treasury operations.
“A nationwide belief constitution will permit us to carry issuance, custody and conversion collectively as a full-stack providing below one extremely regulated entity,” Witkoff stated.
World Liberty Financial introduced on Dec. 25 that its USD1 stablecoin surpassed $3 billion in market capitalization inside months of its launch.
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Witkoff, who’s co-founder and CEO of World Liberty Financial, stated in a press launch saying the milestone that USD1 affords conventional establishments “a crypto-native however trusted instrument to reap the ability of DeFi.”
“In lower than a 12 months, USD1 has been adopted because the stablecoin of selection for pioneering enterprises in all places,” Witkoff stated.
When saying in March 2025 that it deliberate to launch the stablecoin, World Liberty Financial stated USD1 can be redeemable 1:1 for the U.S. greenback; 100% backed by short-term U.S. authorities Treasurys, U.S. greenback deposits and different money equivalents; and totally backed by a reserve portfolio audited by a third-party accounting agency.
“We’re providing a digital greenback stablecoin that sovereign buyers and main establishments can confidently combine into their methods for seamless, safe cross-border transactions,” Witkoff stated on the time in a press launch.













