Trump-backed World Liberty Financial is collaborating with WorldClaw to expand the use of the USD1 stablecoin as a payment method for access to AI models on WorldClaw’s service and associated platform services. WorldClaw offers access to 90 AI models, 43 of which were developed by Chinese companies. The Chinese companies named in the reporting include Alibaba, Baidu and Z.ai, and WorldClaw’s catalogue also includes models supplied by U.S. firms such as OpenAI and Anthropic, among others noted in the coverage.
WorldClaw provides access to dozens of AI models across its platform, explicitly including models developed by Chinese firms Alibaba, Baidu and Z.ai as well as models supplied by U.S.-based companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic, as detailed in the reporting. The reporting states that Z.ai, previously known as Zhipu AI, was added to the U.S. Commerce Department’s Entity List in January 2025, marking a regulatory action recorded in the coverage.
The coverage also records that in June the U.S. Department of Defense designated Alibaba and Baidu as Chinese Military Companies Operating in the United States, a classification noted alongside other regulatory and security-related information. A World Liberty spokesperson is cited in the same reporting as saying WorldClaw is an independent company in relation to World Liberty Financial’s collaboration and the platform’s access to those AI models.
Ryan Fang is an executive at Trump-backed World Liberty Financial and also serves as an adviser to WorldClaw. The reporting records promotional activity for WorldClaw by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump. The coverage states that the financial terms between WorldClaw and the Trump family are unknown and that how much the Trump family has earned from WorldClaw is not disclosed. These affiliations are documented in the same reporting.
Those personnel ties and promotional actions are recorded alongside reporting on WorldClaw’s platform and its partnerships. The coverage notes that financial terms between WorldClaw and the Trump family were not disclosed. No additional financial details were provided in the reporting.
In February, Anthropic accused DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and MiniMax of using roughly 24,000 fraudulent accounts to generate more than 16 million Claude exchanges through model distillation. The allegations identify those three firms and quantify the activity as approximately 24,000 fraudulent accounts and over 16 million Claude exchanges. The reporting presents the activity as large-scale model distillation producing high volumes of interactions with Anthropic’s Claude model.
In June, Anthropic urged Congress to tighten export controls and to penalize large-scale model extraction. Anthropic said combating the threat of illicit distillation requires coordinated action between government and industry. Anthropic also said it will continue working with Congress and the administration to maintain American AI leadership.
WorldClaw launched WorldRouter, a platform that settles transactions in the USD1 stablecoin via WorldLibertyFi and routes inference requests to its model catalogue. The launch included a catalogue of more than 300 AI models available through the router. WorldRouter supports the Solana and BNB Chain blockchains for settlement and integration. Payment options allow users to pay directly in USD1 or to lock WLFI tokens to access top-tier service levels. These product details were recorded in the coverage.
Trump-backed World Liberty Financial is collaborating with WorldClaw to expand use of the USD1 stablecoin to provide payment access to AI models from both Chinese and American companies, with WorldClaw’s catalogue including models from Alibaba, Baidu, Z.ai, OpenAI and Anthropic.
Security and regulatory actions noted in the coverage include Z.ai being added to the U.S. Commerce Department’s Entity List in January 2025, the U.S. Department of Defense designating Alibaba and Baidu as Chinese Military Companies Operating in the United States in June, and Anthropic’s allegations of large-scale model distillation alongside its June call for tightened export controls and penalties for large-scale model extraction.
The coverage also documents business arrangements such as WorldClaw’s WorldRouter settling in USD1 with WorldLibertyFi, support for Solana and BNB Chain, a catalogue of 300+ models, payment options to pay in USD1 or lock WLFI for top tiers, personnel ties including Ryan Fang’s advisory role and promotional activity by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, and that financial terms and the Trump family’s earnings from WorldClaw are unknown.
