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The Trump family’s new crypto venture, World Liberty Financial, is off to an inauspicious start after website crashes limited the ability for investors to participate in an inaugural token sale event.

The crypto token, WLFI, went on sale at around 9 am Eastern time on Tuesday. At the time of writing, the website continues to be plagued by reliability issues, pushing some visitors to an error page. “We can’t connect to the server for this app or website at this time,” the notice states.

Data from analytics platform Etherscan shows that only 8,500 people have participated in the token presale so far, purchasing around 750 million tokens—3.75 percent of the total available in the presale—between them. A World Liberty Financial representative had previously said on X that 100,000 accredited US investors had been preapproved after registering interest in the token.

World Liberty Financial adviser Sandy Peng told crypto media outlet CoinDesk that the website went down due to a surge in traffic. More than 70 million unique visitors landed on the site within an hour of the token going on sale, she said. The organization did not immediately respond to a request for further comment.

The website issues make it challenging to accurately assess the appetite for the WLFI token among investors. But the rocky launch will give pause to those concerned about the potential for the Trump project to set back the DeFi industry, should it fail.

Since August, World Liberty Financial has been marketed by the Trump family as a way to “revolutionize finance” and “make finance great again.” The website lists presidential candidate Donald Trump as “chief crypto advocate,” and his sons—Eric, Donald Jr., and 18-year-old Barron—as “Web3 ambassadors.”

The World Liberty Financial platform is set to provide peer-to-peer borrowing and lending, in the spirit of what’s known in cryptoland as decentralized finance, or DeFi. But hard details about the project have not been forthcoming. Despite making multiple announcements teasing the project on Telegram and X, and publishing a manifesto of sorts on the project’s aim, the Trumps have supplied barely any information about the workings of the platform or range of services to be available to customers.

This created an opening for bad actors. In late August, impersonators used the project’s Telegram channel—pitched as “the ONLY [sic] place to get the official news”—to advertise an inauthentic token giveaway. In early September, X accounts belonging to Lara Trump, wife to Eric, and Tiffany Trump, daughter of the former president, were allegedly compromised and used by the hackers to peddle another crypto token purportedly related to World Liberty Financial.

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