DeFi
February 11, 2026
President Trump’s World Liberty Financial World Swap officially enters the global remittance arena. This ambitious decentralized finance (DeFi) project is positioning itself to capture a share of the staggering $7 trillion annual foreign exchange and cross-border payments market. The World Swap founder, Zak Folkman, stated that:
“There’s over $7 trillion of money moving around the world from currency to currency, and all of this has been taxed very heavily by the incumbent player.”
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Trump-Backed World Liberty Financial’s World Swap Transforms Cross-Border Payments
World Swap is the latest expansion of the World Liberty Financial (WLFI) ecosystem. The platform aims to bypass the heavy taxes and high fees typically extracted by incumbent financial institutions. Traditional cross-border payments often involve multiple intermediary banks, each taking a cut, leading to high fees and slow settlement times.
From the chart below, the WLFI coin can be seen to have surged with the launch of the platform. This could be signaling a bullish market sentiment.
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World Liberty Financial’s World Swap leverages blockchain infrastructure. By utilizing the project’s proprietary USD1 stablecoin, it intends to connect users directly to debit cards and bank accounts globally, settling remittances at a fraction of the current industry cost.
An Attack on Upcoming De-dollarization Currencies
The remittance and foreign exchange markets are about to be disrupted. In a market where millions of individuals depend on affordable cross-border transfers, this is every entrepreneur’s dream. As the new platform promises direct integration, lower fees and faster transactions, the lines between TradFi and DeFi continue to blur.
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If successfully executed at scale, this model could place World Liberty Financial’s World Swap as a dominant player in the digital financial system. Even as BRICS nations explore launching a gold-backed unit to reduce reliance on the U.S. dollar, blockchain-powered remittance platforms are racing to modernize the infrastructure of global money movement.
