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Abu Dhabi Stake in WLFI Bank

The Trump Family's Crypto Bank Is Reportedly Half-Owned by Abu Dhabi's Security Chief

Verified · 28 Aug 2026Institutional TransitionAug 28, 2026

UAE National Security Adviser Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed holds roughly a 49% stake in the Trump family's planned crypto bank tied to World Liberty Financial, per a Wall Street Journal report relayed across multiple outlets. Coverage framed the arrangement as raising foreign-ownership and conflict-of-interest questions around US financial infrastructure connected to the president's family; Tahnoon also chairs MGX, the Abu Dhabi fund whose $2 billion Binance investment was settled in WLFI's USD1 stablecoin — the same coin that went native on the Canton settlement network a day earlier.

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