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Trump crypto venture World Liberty Financial insisted its flagship stablecoin was “completely safe” after an attack on some of its founders’ social media profiles briefly snapped the token’s peg to the dollar.

WLF said late on Monday that hackers had gained “unauthorised access” to some of its co-founders’ X accounts, in what it described as a “co-ordinated attack”. The group said the incident was focused solely on social media profiles, rather than its underlying infrastructure or “wallets” that store digital tokens.

The stablecoin, known as USD1, had earlier on Monday breached the $1 mark it…