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World Liberty Financial Delays Maldives Resort Token Sale

Published 15 August 2026

World Liberty Financial, the decentralized finance project linked to the Trump family, has postponed the planned sale of a digital token tied to a Trump-branded luxury resort in the Maldives. The offering, which was initially scheduled for this spring, has been delayed due to regional travel disruptions caused by the ongoing war with Iran, according to people familiar with the matter. No new launch timeline has been announced.

The token was designed to give accredited investors a share of revenue generated from loans financing the development of the resort. The project, announced in February 2026, represented a novel approach to tokenizing real-world assets by focusing on the development phase of a property rather than a completed asset. The resort, a Trump International Hotel & Resort, is planned to feature approximately 100 ultraluxury beach and overwater villas on a private island near Male, with a target completion date of 2030.

The initiative involved a partnership between World Liberty Financial, real estate firm DarGlobal, and Securitize, a tokenization platform backed by BlackRock. Securitize was tapped to provide the technical infrastructure to represent loan interests...

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