WLFI Tokens Weekly Recap: How Trump-Backed Cryptos Held Up

Key Takeaways

• Donald Trump’s WLFI platform announced its strategic reserve this week. 
• Ethereum and ONDO, part of the WLFI portfolio, fell in the last seven days. 
• On the other hand, AAVE went up. 

Donald Trump is, as one might expect from a president of the United States, very much the man of the moment.

Although his second term hasn’t quite been the crypto paradise that some, perhaps overly optimistic, people expected, his World Liberty Financial (WLFI) crypto platform has garnered much interest. 

When WLFI announced this week that it would have its own strategic reserve, the crypto world turned its attention to its holdings.

Let’s examine some of the cryptos in the platform’s portfolio and see how they’ve performed this week. 

Ethereum (ETH) – Down 1.13%

Ethereum’s ETH coin is the second-largest crypto by market cap, worth about $325 billion.

However, Ethereum has underperformed somewhat over the last year or so. With Bitcoin surging and pushing other cryptos to record levels, ETH has not quite capitalized on the upturn as much as it could have. 

This is true of last week as much as it’s been true of the last 12 months or so. WLFI’s ETH holdings saw a drop in value over the last seven days because Vitalik Buterin’s brainchild dipped by a little over 1% from $2,731 on Feb. 7 to $2,700 on Feb. 14.

Meanwhile, WLFI investors will hope that the platform’s developers get a move on with the upcoming Pectra and Fusaka upgrades . 

AAVE – Up 5.18%

The Aave protocol is designed to help people borrow and lend cryptocurrency. A key part of the DeFi world, it came out in 2017 as EthLend before rebranding the following year.

The system’s AAVE token has managed to keep its end up recently, gaining investors’ attention, at least relatively speaking, and becoming something of a mainstay in the top 40 cryptos by market cap. 

AAVE had a strong week last week, climbing more than 5% from $245.95 on Feb. 7 to around $258.70 on Feb.14.

A big part of this was due to the vote of confidence it received from the world’s second-largest crypto, the Ethereum Foundation, when it  sent more than 30,000 ETH worth more than $80 million to Aave. 

ONDO – Down 3.62%

ONDO is a platform that deals with Real-World Assets (RWAs), taking things such as regular financial products and putting them on the blockchain.

The RWA sector experienced growth in late 2024 and became one of blockchain finance’s main talking points, garnering people’s attention, including, it seems reasonable to assume, Donald Trump’s.

However, ONDO did not perform well last week, dropping more than 3.5% from $1.38 on Feb. 7 to $1.33 on Feb. 14.

WLFI investors will be hoping that work on the upcoming ONDO blockchain , which should move the crypto from Ethereum, will help boost it in the coming months.