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The notion that a (former) president of the United States would throw his support behind a DeFi project would’ve been inconceivable just a few years ago, but it’s happening.

The Trump-backed World Liberty Financial (WLF) project submitted on the Aave governance forums a proposal to deploy an Aave v3 instance on Wednesday.

WLF is not technically a fork of Aave’s code, as confirmed by Aave founder Stani Kulechov on the Chopping Block podcast. 

On the backend, WLF seems to be a segregated instance of its own “Aave” from the…

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