World Liberty Financial, the cryptocurrency venture linked to President Donald Trump and partly owned by his family, has established a commercial relationship with Hong Kong-based AI platform WorldClaw. The arrangement allows users of WorldClaw’s services to pay with World Liberty’s USD1 stablecoin while gaining access to a broad menu of artificial intelligence models, including many developed by Chinese companies that face U.S. government restrictions.

WorldClaw operates a routing service called WorldRouter that provides access to approximately 90 AI models. Of those, 43 come from Chinese developers, among them systems from Alibaba, Baidu, Z.ai, DeepSeek and Moonshot. The platform also lists models from U.S. providers such as OpenAI and Anthropic. WorldClaw accepts USD1 as payment for its services. Exact financial terms of the relationship have not been disclosed.

Stablecoin Payments and Advisory Ties

USD1 is a dollar-pegged stablecoin issued by World Liberty Financial and backed in part by U.S. Treasury securities. The Trump family holds a 38 percent stake in World Liberty and is entitled to a share of interest earned on the reserves. Token sales associated with the project have generated more than $1.4 billion for the family, contributing to overall crypto-related proceeds exceeding $2.3 billion. World Liberty recently received preliminary U.S. approval for a national bank charter centered on the same stablecoin.

Ryan Fang, World Liberty’s head of growth, has served as an external adviser to WorldClaw. The AI platform described the role as strictly advisory and focused on USD1 adoption, partnerships and broader access to AI services. Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump have previously promoted WorldClaw on social media platform X.

Chinese Models Under U.S. Scrutiny

Several Chinese developers whose models appear on WorldClaw carry formal U.S. government designations. The Department of Defense has listed Alibaba and Baidu as Chinese military-affiliated companies, restricting Pentagon dealings with them. Z.ai, formerly known as Zhipu AI, sits on the Commerce Department’s Entity List, which limits its access to U.S. technology and subjects American firms seeking to supply it to a presumptive denial of export licenses. Officials have stated that Z.ai advances China’s military capabilities through advanced AI.

DeepSeek and Moonshot have also drawn scrutiny. U.S. officials have accused both of building systems on intellectual property taken from American rivals. Moonshot has denied the allegations, and Chinese authorities have rejected claims of technology theft. Using these models through a third-party platform remains generally legal for U.S. individuals and companies, though specific rules can restrict certain direct transactions involving listed entities.

WorldClaw has stated that listing a model does not constitute an endorsement of its developer. The company maintains it operates independently of World Liberty and that the platform helps American AI firms reach international customers. World Liberty has pointed to similar multi-provider offerings by major U.S. technology companies.

White House spokesperson Anna Kelly added that President Trump acts only in the best interests of the American public. External analysts have expressed different views. Daniel Remler, a senior fellow at the Center for New American Security and former State Department adviser, has warned that Chinese models on the platform could expose users to government monitoring or malicious code capable of compromising independent AI agents. Sam Bresnick, a fellow at Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology, described the arrangement as appearing hypocritical given U.S. efforts to counter Chinese AI advances.

Platform Scale and Data Practices

WorldClaw reports that WorldRouter serves more than 10,000 users and processes over 50 million requested tasks each day. Demand is partly driven by the lower cost of Chinese models relative to some Western alternatives. The platform’s privacy policy indicates that user inputs may be shared with the companies that supply the underlying models, depending on the service requested. WorldClaw states that it applies privacy and security measures across its operations.

The connection between a Trump-linked stablecoin and a platform offering restricted Chinese AI systems has drawn attention to questions of technology access, national security designations and potential commercial incentives. Both World Liberty and WorldClaw continue to describe the relationship as independent and consistent with broader industry practices of aggregating multiple AI providers under a single interface.