特朗普强势入局加密市场！DeFi项目首度曝光，创始团队引发轩然大波

marsbitPublished on 2024-09-03Last updated on 2024-09-04

World Liberty Financial 白皮书中列出的四名团队成员之前曾在 Dough Finance 工作，该公司 7 月份亏损 200 万美元。其中一人还创立了 Date Hotter Girls LLC。

DeFi白皮书称，前总统特朗普是 World Liberty Financial 的“首席加密货币倡导者”。他的儿子埃里克和小唐纳德是“Web3 大使”。（Alex Wong/Getty Images）

唐纳德·特朗普和他的儿子数周来一直在暗示即将推出的加密货币项目，但他们并未公开透露细节。不过，私下里，这位美国前总统的核心圈子一直在悄悄地为世界自由金融 (World Liberty Financial) 兜售白皮书 - CoinDesk 获得了其中的摘录。

该文件和其他报道描述了一种与 Dough Finance 惊人相似的借贷服务，Dough Finance 是一款最近遭到黑客攻击的区块链应用程序，由四名被列为 World Liberty Financial 团队成员的人开发。其他参与者包括特朗普的三个儿子（包括 18 岁的巴伦，他被认定为该项目的“DeFi 远见者”）、金融家和电子商务影响者。

据一位知情人士透露，该项目还将包括一种新的加密货币：WLFI，一种不可转让的治理代币。转让限制可能会使投机者难以交易该资产。白皮书称，World Liberty Financial“以一种通俗易懂的方式凸显了区块链的强大力量”。尽管这款应用尚未准备好在黄金时段推出，但对 GitHub 上一个现已删除的代码库的审查表明，该项目（至少在早期阶段）似乎直接从 Dough Finance 窃取了代码，Dough Finance在 7 月份的黑客攻击中损失了 200 万美元。目前尚未确认该应用的后续版本是否包含此类早期代码，也没有迹象表明新项目的代码中出现了 Dough Finance 代码中的任何漏洞。

DeFi一位知情人士称，Zachary Folkman 和 Chase Herro（在白皮书中分别被列为 World Liberty Financial 的运营主管和数据与战略负责人）创建了 Dough Finance。 （据 CoinDesk 审查的截图显示，Herro 曾在该消息应用程序的个人简介中链接到 Dough Finance 的 Telegram 群组。）根据他的在线简历，该项目的智能合约负责人 Octavian Lojnita 也曾在 Dough Finance 工作过。 World Liberty Financial 的匿名前端开发人员 Boga 在 Dough Finance 的源代码中被列为作者（在 0xboga 下）。

World Liberty Financial 的有限责任公司注册人是 Folkman，他和 Herro 是 Subify 的联合创始人，Subify 自称是Patreon 和 OnlyFans 的无审查竞争对手——这两项服务都允许客户向内容创作者付费，后者偏向于露骨内容。Folkman 之前注册了一家名为 Date Hotter Girls LLC 的公司，并在 YouTube 上发布了如何搭讪女性的研讨会。

Herro、Folkman、World Liberty Financial和特朗普竞选团队均未回应置评请求。

到目前为止，关于特朗普进军去中心化金融的细节很少。特朗普家族成员在社交媒体上透露了这一消息，但除了项目名称外，他们没有透露太多信息。上个月首次宣布时，该项目被称为“The DeFiant Ones”。

DeFi根据更名后的 World Liberty Financial 白皮书，该项目将包括一个“信用账户系统”——建立在去中心化金融 (DeFi) 平台 Aave 和以太坊区块链之上——以促进去中心化借贷。像 WLFI 这样的治理代币通常允许其持有者参与加密项目的管理。白皮书称，在这种情况下，平台用户“可以建议并投票增加新的 DeFi 借贷市场或整合新的区块链”。

白皮书还表示，该产品将具有“易于使用的界面，可作为‘智能账户’或经纪业务访问 WLFI”。此前创建加密经纪服务的努力取得了好坏参半的结果。提供经纪服务的公司（如 Voyager Digital）于 2022 年破产，导致客户损失惨重。更多传统金融公司也开始向加密客户提供经纪服务，尽管他们迄今为止还没有深入 DeFi 领域。

World Liberty Financial 背后的团队

该项目的领军人物是唐纳德·J·特朗普，他获得了“首席加密货币倡导者”的称号。他的儿子埃里克·特朗普和小唐纳德·特朗普似乎是该项目背后的推动力，他们也以“Web3 大使”的身份参与其中。

该项目的领导团队中还包括一些不属于特朗普家族的人。除了福克曼、赫罗、洛伊尼塔和博加，该项目的领导层还包括特朗普的老朋友、知名房地产开发商史蒂夫·维特科夫（“机构投资”）及其儿子扎克·维特科夫（“情报”）和亚历克斯·戈卢比茨基（“法律顾问”）。

Golubitsky 和他的法律合伙人 Gabriel Shapiro 经营着加密货币治理咨询公司 MetaleX Pro。该公司披露，它将获得 World Financial Liberty 即将推出的代币 $WLFI 的 1.3%。

福克曼和赫罗（也被称为“追逐英雄”）是多年的好友和商业伙伴。除了在 Subify 工作之外，赫罗和福克曼还经营所谓的“智囊团”——本质上是入会费高昂的私人社交俱乐部——并销售在线电子商务课程。

DeFi

左侧为 Dough Finance 的用户界面，右侧为 World Liberty Financial 的界面（现已删除的代码，GitHub）

Herro 曾作为嘉宾出现在热门播客中，包括 YouTuber Logan Paul 的播客“Impaulsive”，他在播客中讨论了自己过去因毒品相关指控入狱的经历，以及他如何作为一名“白手起家的商人”致富。Paul 目前正面临集体诉讼，指控他策划了一场利用失败的 CryptoZoo 项目的阴谋。

法庭记录显示，Herro拥有一艘 34 英尺长的船，名为“Clickbait”。

根据Open Corporates的数据，Folkman 曾以化名扎克·鲍尔 (Zack Bauer) 与另一名个人罗布·贾奇 (Rob Judge) 共同运营搭讪艺术家建议平台“Date Hotter Girls”。在与 Date Hotter Girls 合作期间，福克曼教授“大师班”，其中包括一门关于如何“成为终极阿尔法男性”的课程。

从 2015 年开始，Herro 和 Folkman创办了“The Watchers”，这是一个 Facebook 页面和 YouTube 频道，拥有 2,280 名订阅者，致力于提供有关加密货币的信息和创业建议。上一个视频是在四年前上传的。Herro以前经营一家名为“Pacer Capital”的加密货币交易公司，该公司似乎已不复存在。

争取加密货币选民的支持

这一举措是特朗普重大转变的一部分，他在担任总统期间对数字资产持怀疑态度，并嘲笑比特币（BTC） “凭空而来”。现在，这位前总统在竞选中承诺要让美国成为“地球的加密之都”，他的目标是巩固自己对加密货币行业的吸引力，在本届选举周期中，加密货币行业占所有企业竞选支出的一半以上。

此前，这位前总统曾多次出售以特朗普为主题的非同质化代币 (NFT)，其中一些代币为购买者提供了与他共进晚餐的抽奖券或类似奖励。他刚刚发布了第四批。

加密货币公司已在 2024 年选举周期投入了 1.19 亿美元，仅次于化石燃料行业。本次选举中投入最多的前十大企业中有两家是 Coinbase 和 Ripple，其中 Coinbase 位居第一。

加密行业也通过超级政治行动委员会 Fairshake 及其附属 PAC 的定向资助发挥了作用，并在 2024 年初选中取得了 26 场胜利。

特朗普和其他共和党人试图辩称，他们将培育加密货币行业，取代不受欢迎的监管机构，并允许企业家推出产品而不必担心美国证券交易委员会等机构的诉讼或传票。民主党人在这个问题上意见分歧更大，一些知名议员如参议员查克·舒默承诺立法明确规则，但其他人仍然对数字资产持敌对态度。民主党候选人副总统卡马拉·哈里斯尚未公开谈论加密货币或她对这个问题的看法。

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