{"id":7667,"date":"2025-08-13T12:24:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T12:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/nasdaq-listed-alt5-sigma-closes-1-5b-round-led-by-world-liberty-financial-launches-wlfi-treasury-strategy\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T12:24:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T12:24:23","slug":"nasdaq-listed-alt5-sigma-closes-1-5b-round-led-by-world-liberty-financial-launches-wlfi-treasury-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/nasdaq-listed-alt5-sigma-closes-1-5b-round-led-by-world-liberty-financial-launches-wlfi-treasury-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Nasdaq-listed ALT5 Sigma closes $1.5B round led by World Liberty Financial, launches WLFI treasury strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-detail__content blocks\">\n<p class=\"is-style-lead\">ALT5 Sigma Corporation has closed a $1.5 billion funding round led by World Liberty Financial to launch a corporate treasury strategy centered on WLFI tokens.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"cn-block-summary-block_ff0743b48a234b04740b18982e1ea790\" class=\"cn-block-summary\">\n<div class=\"cn-block-summary__nav tabs\">\n        <span class=\"tabs__item is-selected\">Summary<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"cn-block-summary__content\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>ALT5 Sigma closed a $1.5B raise led by WLFI, priced at $7.50 per share.<\/li>\n<li>Company to hold 7.5% of WLFI\u2019s token supply, managed by Kraken.<\/li>\n<li>Leadership changes include WLFI\u2019s CEO Zach Witkoff becoming ALT5 chairman.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .cn-block-summary --><\/p>\n<p>The transaction, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20250812677412\/en\/ALT5-Sigma-Corporation-Announces-Closing-of-%241.5-Billion-Registered-Direct-Offering-and-Concurrent-Private-Placement-to-Initiate-World-Liberty-Financial-%24WLFI-Treasury-Strategy\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> on Aug. 12, combined a registered direct offering and a concurrent private placement, both priced at $7.50 per share. It involved participation from major institutional investors and crypto venture capital firms.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the deal, ALT5 will hold around 7.5% of the total WLFI token supply, valuing the token at $0.20 in its first public pricing since launch. Kraken will serve as asset manager for the initiative.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Leadership reshuffle following deal<\/h2>\n<p>The funding also brought significant leadership changes. WLFI co-founder and chief executive officer Zach Witkoff has been named chairman of ALT5\u2019s board, while Eric Trump joins as a director. WLFI co-founder and chief operating officer Zak Folkman will serve as board observer, and Matt Morgan has been appointed chief investment officer.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p>\n<p>Through its ALT5 Pay and ALT5 Prime platforms, ALT5, which was founded in 2018, offers blockchain-powered technologies for tokenization, trading, settlement, and payment solutions. <\/p>\n<p>While ALT5 Prime provides over-the-counter digital asset trading, ALT5 Pay allows international merchants to accept cryptocurrency payments with the option to auto-convert to fiat. The business has handled over $5 billion in cryptocurrency transactions.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">World Liberty Financial\u2019s growing footprint<\/h2>\n<p>The WLFI treasury strategy marks a significant step in integrating the governance token into corporate finance. Inspired by Donald Trump\u2019s vision, WLFI is a decentralized finance protocol that aims to increase access to DeFi and develop tools for wider adoption.<\/p>\n<p>The $1.5 billion raise follows a series of WLFI developments in recent months, including a $52.1 million private token sale in July, a $10 million investment in Falcon Finance, and a Binance listing of WLFI\u2019s USD1 stablecoin. <\/p>\n<p>Both WLFI and ALT5\u2019s expanding footprints demonstrate the growing intersection of traditional capital markets, decentralized finance, and political brand influence.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALT5 Sigma Corporation has closed a $1.5 billion funding round led by World Liberty Financial to launch a corporate treasury strategy centered on WLFI tokens.\u00a0 Summary ALT5 Sigma closed a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7668,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7667\/revisions\/7668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}