Directed Inquiry

Question: Investigate World Liberty Financial: Search LDA for "Coin Center lobbying disclosures 2024-2026, focus on SEC enforcement and token classification". Could reveal indirect policy advocacy on issues directly affecting WLF's regulatory status. Report any findings as factual claims with dates and evidence.

Date: 2026-04-09

Research Findings

My investigation found no direct evidence of Coin Center lobbying on behalf of World Liberty Financial or any formal relationship between the two entities. However, the research revealed significant regulatory developments that would impact WLF's operations. Coin Center's LDA filings from 2024-2026 show extensive lobbying on SEC enforcement standards, token classification, and stablecoin regulation - all issues directly affecting WLF's regulatory status. The organization lobbied on crypto asset anti-money laundering examination standards, the Lummis-Gillibrand Payment Stablecoin Act, and various blockchain regulatory acts. Notably, Jake Chervinsky, a prominent crypto policy expert who previously worked with Coin Center figures, publicly criticized World Liberty Financial in September 2025, stating it would make crypto market structure legislation 'way harder to get market structure legislation done in the Senate.' This suggests the crypto policy community, including Coin Center's sphere, viewed WLF as potentially harmful to broader industry legislative goals rather than as an ally. The timing is significant: major SEC-CFTC coordination on crypto regulation occurred in March 2026, with new interpretive guidance on token classification - exactly the regulatory clarity that could determine WLF's compliance obligations.

Data Collected

• Entities created: Peter Van Valkenburgh, Robin Weisman, Landon Zinda, Paul S. Atkins, Michael S. Selig, Hyperliquid Policy Center, Hyper Foundation, Justin Sun
• Facts recorded: 8
• Connections mapped: 3
• Web sources consulted: 39

Sources

• SEC.gov | Regulation Crypto Assets: A Token Safe Harbor
• US Crypto Policy Tracker Regulatory Developments
• SEC.gov | Enforcement Actions
• SEC.gov | SEC Clarifies the Application of Federal Securities Laws to Crypto Assets
• December 2025 Crypto Update: New Changes and Challenges in U.S. Regulation of Digital Assets | Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP
• SEC and CFTC Issue Landmark Joint Guidance on Classification of Crypto Assets Under Federal Securities Laws | Insights | Ropes & Gray LLP
• Breaking Down “Project Crypto”: SEC Chairman Atkins Outlines Next Phase of Digital Asset Oversight | Insights | Sidley Austin LLP
• SEC and CFTC Issue Landmark Joint Interpretation on Crypto Asset Classification | Jenner & Block LLP | Law Firm
• SEC.gov | Cyber, Crypto Assets and Emerging Technology
• Dentons - SEC Clarifies Crypto Asset Regulation Under Federal Securities Laws
• Lobbying Disclosure, Office of the Clerk - House.gov
• LD-2 Disclosure Form
• Senate Advances Bills To Broaden Foreign Agent Disclosures in Lobbying Reports | Inside Political Law
• GAO-25-107523, 2024 LOBBYING DISCLOSURE: Observations on Compliance with Requirements
• Coin Center Inc. - Summary from LegiStorm
• LD-2 Disclosure Form - Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) Reports
• Filing Deadlines - U.S. Senate
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• LD-2 Disclosure Form - Senate.gov
• Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) Reports - Senate.gov
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• Coin Center | LinkedIn
• Coin Center
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• What Coin Center believes in, and what we do
• Comment of Coin Center on Treasury’s Request for Comment on Innovative Methods to Detect Illicit Activity Involving Digital Assets
• World Liberty Financial - Wikipedia
• Jake Chervinsky on X: "World Liberty Financial will make it way harder to get market structure legislation done in the Senate, where we need 7 Democrats to vote yes, and for whom a pro-crypto vote will be politically challenging (to put it mildly) no matter what the bill says about policy. Happy fall." / X
• Founding Coin Center Chief Jerry Brito Stepping Down After Decade
• Trump Family-Backed World Liberty Financial Will Make It Harder For Crypto Market Structure Bill To Pass, Crypto Policy Expert Says
• Jerry Brito
• Day 2: Trump’s World Liberty Financial Grift Part I | U.S. House Committee on Financial Services Democrats
• Jerry Brito
• How US’s New Infrastructure Bill Could Choke the Crypto Market?
• File comments against new crypto FinCEN rule, Coin Center leader urges
• Hyperliquid starts DeFi lobbying group in U.S. with $29 million HYPE token backing