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Morning Edition · Saturday, August 22, 2026Published at 1:43 AM EDT · New York
USD1's Live Contract Holds Wallet Powers Its Published Code Does Not Show
The $4 billion Trump-linked stablecoin can move balances out of frozen wallets through functions absent from its GitHub repository, as rival issuers build the opposite design on selective disclosure.
The deployed contract behind USD1, the dollar stablecoin issued by World Liberty Financial, contains functions that let privileged operators move or reallocate balances held in frozen wallets, and CryptoSlate reports those functions do not…
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