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Trump-linked stablecoin wobbles as WLFI says it's under 'coordinated attack'
Trump-linked stablecoin wobbles as WLFI says it's under 'coordinated attack'
The USD1 token briefly fell to $0.994, some 0.6% below its $1 peg, CoinGecko data shows.
By Krisztian Sandor|Edited by Oliver Knight
Feb 23, 2026, 3:44 p.m.
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World Liberty Financial leadership team (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)
What to know:
- USD1 fell as low as $0.994 (0.6% below peg) before recovering to around $0.998.
- The project claims hackers compromised cofounder accounts, paid influencers to spread fear, and opened short positions on WLFI in an attempt to trigger panic and profit from volatility.
- Developers credited USD1’s dollar-for-token redemption feature with helping maintain confidence and prevent a deeper or prolonged depeg, underscoring how direct convertibility remains critical to stablecoin resilience.
USD1, the U.S. dollar stablecoin of World Liberty Financial — a crypto protocol with close links to President Donald Trump’s family — slipped from its $1 peg on Monday amid what the project’s developers described as a "coordinated attack" against the protocol.
The token fell to as low as $0.994 during the day, some 0.6% from its intended $1 anchor, CoinGecko data shows.
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In a Monday X post, the team behind USD1 said multiple cofounder accounts were hacked, influencers were paid to sow doubt, and short positions were opened against the protocol’s native token, WLFI, in what they framed as a deliberate effort to stir panic and profit from it.
"It didn’t work," the post said, saying that a redemption mechanism that allows USD1 holders to exchange their tokens for an equal amount of U.S. dollars as the reason the peg held firm.
However, the token still traded at $0.998, some 0.2% below its intended $1 price anchor, CoinGecko shows, which gathers price data from exchange pairs.
USD1 price (CoinGecko)
USD1, issued in partnership with crypto custodian BitGo (BITG) is among the largest dollar-backed stablecoins. It has a $5 billion market capitalization, but it still trails major players like Tether's USDT USDT$1.0002 and Circle's (USDC).
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