Binance the leading global crypto exchange, which holds a license both in the UAE and Bahrain within the MENA region, and which recently received a $2 billion investment from MGX an Abu Dhabi technology investment company, has announced the listing of World Liberty Financial USD (USD1) on May 22nd 2025. Binance listed World Liberty Financial USD (USD1) and opened trading for the following spot trading pair USD1/USDT. Users can now start depositing USD1 in preparation for trading.
One day prior Donald Trump’s crypto venture World Liberty Financial launched its stablecoin on Kucoin which was recently banned from the United States after admitting to violating anti-money laundering laws and agreeing to pay a $300 million fine.
USD1 Listing Fee: 0 BNB. The crypto exchange also noted it added World Liberty Financial USD ( USD1) to Binance Simple Earn, “Buy Crypto”, Binance Convert, and Binance Margin at the respective dates and timings listed below. USD1 Flexible Products will be listed on Binance Simple Earn at 2025-05-22 12:00 (UTC) and will be available for subscription.
Users can buy USD1 with VISA, MasterCard, Google Pay, Apple Pay, Revolut or buy and sell USD1 with their account balances on the “Buy Crypto” page, available within one hour of USD1being listed on Binance Spot.
Users will also be able to start trading USD1 against BTC, USDT, and any other tokens on Binance Convert at zero fees within one hour of USD1 being listed on Binance Spot. Binance Margin will add USD1 as a new borrowable asset on Cross and Isolated Margin, as well as the USD1/USDT pair on Cross and Isolated Margin at 2025-05-22 12:20 (UTC).
This comes weeks after Eric Trump announced that the stablecoin used for the investment into Binance by UAE sovereign AI fund MGX, was World Liberty Financial USD.
Richard Teng talks to CNN about MGX Investment into Binance but not the name of stablecoin
Yet even in his most recent interview with CNN, Richard Teng still did not disclose the stablecoin that was used in MGX investment into Binance, while he did talk about what this means for the future of AI and crypto.
In a new series, entitled Intelligent Future which focuses on how technology is revolutionizing our world, CNN’s Becky Anderson sat down with Binance’s CEO, Richard Teng.
He noted that crypto is the future. It is a technology that is traceable, trustless, and decentralized. It allows you to build financial infrastructure, any infrastructure, tokenization, supply chains and so many other uses cases.
He adds that in the current financial structure, it takes two days to send money at high costs, crypto and stablecoins resolve this.
When asked about MGX investment into Binance with $2 billion. Teng stated, ” Abu Dhabi and UAE are always at the forefront of thinking and development of the future world. If you look at MGX it is AI, datacenter investment advance technology power house, so we are glad that this is our first institutional investment, This is the first strategic minority investment into Binance, the largest in the crypto industry and the largest paid in stablecoins.”
He says it also shows the future role is one of convergence between traditional finance, blockchain, crypto, AI, so he believes it will be very interesting.
As for the final question on how important that the USA is now getting onboard the crypto program. Teng says, that this is very important because the USA is the largest capital markets in the world. It accounts for over 15% of global capital markets. So when they say I am going to go long on crypto, the rest of governments and capital markets cannot chose to ignore that.”
Once regulators around the world come into play, they will benchmark themselves according to what the USA has notes Teng.
As for the next five years, Teng believes, children will grow up in the blockchain and AI world. Fees paid for financial transactions will go down substantially with settlement periods shorter. There will be more choices for investments, and use cases
