Binance Helped Trump-Linked Crypto Firm Before Founder Changpeng Zhao Sought Pardon: Report

Binance Helped Trump-Linked Crypto Firm Before Founder Changpeng Zhao Sought Pardon: Report


The world’s largest digital asset exchange by trading volume may have played a larger role in the development of World Liberty Financial’s stablecoin USD1 than previously known.

According to a Bloomberg report citing unnamed sources, Binance wrote the code for World Liberty Financial’s USD1 stablecoin smart contract.

Once coded and promoted, Binance also made stablecoin available for a $2 billion transaction, completed in USD1. According to Bloomberg, approximately 90% of all USD1 is still in Binance-controlled wallets.

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USD1 launched in March 2025. Two months later, during a podcast interview, former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao, who was convicted in 2023 of failing to maintain proper anti-money-laundering standards at Binance and has already served a short prison term, confirmed that he had applied for a presidential pardon.

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