{"id":649502,"date":"2026-08-28T04:52:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T04:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/28\/abu-dhabi-royal-backs-49-stake-in-trump-linked-crypto-bank-venture-wsj\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T04:52:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T04:52:38","slug":"abu-dhabi-royal-backs-49-stake-in-trump-linked-crypto-bank-venture-wsj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/28\/abu-dhabi-royal-backs-49-stake-in-trump-linked-crypto-bank-venture-wsj\/","title":{"rendered":"Abu Dhabi royal backs 49% stake in Trump-linked crypto bank venture: WSJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/article-covers\/hi-donald-trump-and-wlfi-crypto.jpg\" alt=\"Abu Dhabi royal backs 49% stake in Trump-linked crypto bank venture: WSJ\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sheikh Tahnoon\u2019s group reportedly backs a 49% stake in the holding company behind World Liberty\u2019s conditionally approved US trust bank.<\/p>\n<p>An Abu Dhabi royal and his co-investors reportedly back the largest stake in the holding company behind World Liberty Financial\u2019s proposed US trust bank.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Citing people familiar with the matter, the Wall Street Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/finance\/currencies\/trump-familys-new-crypto-bank-is-backed-by-abu-dhabi-sheikh-38579473\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> that Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan\u2019s group is behind StringZ Holding RSC, which owns 49% of WLTC Holdings. An entity affiliated with US President Donald Trump\u2019s family owns another 38%, one person told WSJ.<\/p>\n<p>If it receives final approval, the planned bank would bring the issuance, redemption and custody of World Liberty\u2019s USD1 stablecoin under the federally supervised venture.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/abu-dhabi-royal-trump-world-liberty-crypto-bank-wsj\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheikh Tahnoon\u2019s group reportedly backs a 49% stake in the holding company behind World Liberty\u2019s conditionally approved US trust bank. An Abu Dhabi royal and his co-investors reportedly back the largest stake in the holding company behind World Liberty Financial\u2019s proposed US trust bank.\u00a0 Citing people familiar with the matter, the Wall Street Journal reported [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":649503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-649502","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}