Trump-Backed WLFI Pays UFC Bonuses in USD1 at White House

TLDR

• World Liberty Financial funded a $250,000 UFC bonus pool in its USD1 stablecoin.

• The UFC Freedom 250 event took place on June 14 on the White House South Lawn.

  

• Crypto.com also sponsored a separate $1 million bonus pool paid in CRO tokens.

• Combined crypto-denominated bonuses at the event reached $1.25 million.

• Trump’s financial disclosures list his World Liberty Financial holdings at more than $50 million.

World Liberty Financial funded UFC fighter bonuses in USD1 during a White House event on Saturday. The Trump-linked DeFi project sponsored a $250,000 Performance of the Night pool. The UFC Freedom 250 card took place on June 14 on the South Lawn.

World Liberty Financial Pays UFC Bonuses in USD1

The USD1 payout formed part of the event’s fighter reward package. World Liberty Financial announced the sponsorship on June 10 through its X account.

That announcement came four days before the fights. The project said the bonus pool would use USD1, its dollar-pegged stablecoin.

The card took place on US Flag Day and President Donald Trump’s birthday. Organizers staged the event on the White House South Lawn.

The event brought fighters to the official residence of the sitting president. It also placed a Trump-linked crypto project beside a major UFC broadcast.

World Liberty Financial has links to Trump and members of his family. Financial disclosures list Trump’s WLFI holdings at more than $50 million.

Critics questioned the setup because the sponsor has ties to the president. Supporters said Trump had already backed crypto before his second term.

The White House event used stablecoin payments for fighter bonuses. Therefore, USD1 appeared in a live sports payout setting.

CRO Bonus Pool Raises Total Crypto Rewards to $1.25 Million

Crypto.com also funded a separate $1 million bonus pool in CRO. The exchange kept its existing UFC bonus presence through that sponsorship.

Together, the USD1 and CRO pools reached $1.25 million. The structure gave fighters two crypto-denominated reward sources at one event.

Individual Performance of the Night awards reached $425,000 per fighter. Fight-night bonuses across the card reached as high as $1.65 million.

The figures made UFC Freedom 250 one of the largest UFC bonus nights. However, each pool came from a separate crypto sponsor.

Crypto.com secured naming rights to UFC performance bonuses in 2021. Since then, the company has kept branding across UFC events.

The WLFI sponsorship did not replace Crypto.com’s UFC role. Instead, both companies backed different bonus pools during the same card.

World Liberty Financial used USD1 for the $250,000 fighter pool. Crypto.com used CRO for the $1 million pool.

The latest detail remains the June 14 White House card. Fighters received crypto-backed bonuses after competing at UFC Freedom 250.

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