The Trump Cryptocurrency Empire and its Intriguing Connections to a UK Flooring Firm
On June 26, a little-known organization named Aqua1 Foundation, claiming to be located in the United Arab Emirates, declared its intention to acquire $100 million worth of WLFI tokens, marking the largest individual transaction to that date. Fast forward several months, and the Financial Times has allegedly revealed a comical connection that associates the Trump digital currency empire with a series of now-defunct hardwood flooring businesses.
The enigmatic Chinese entrepreneur at the helm of Aqua1, who conferred with Eric Trump in Dubai, is Guren “Bobby” Zhou, an executive involved in various enterprises and currently under scrutiny in the UK for money laundering, as reported by the UK National Crime Agency and documents submitted in a London immigration case.
“The Chinese businessman who met with Eric Trump in Dubai was Guren “Bobby” Zhou, who has executive roles in multiple businesses and who is under investigation in Britain for money laundering,” https://t.co/5noairMyCc
— Steven G Young (@youngsteveng) October 28, 2025
Curious Connections: Trump Crypto Empire and Thirteen Defunct Flooring Companies in the UK
A group known as Aqua Labs Investment LLC informed Reuters around the time of the $100 million WLFI purchase that it “was a commercial decision consistent with its focus on advancing regulated, scalable digital-asset ecosystems.”
An Aqua1 representative added, “Mr. Guren (“Bobby”) Zhou has never been convicted of any financial crime in any jurisdiction, and any suggestion to the contrary is both defamatory and false.”
Nevertheless, the Financial Times piece claims that Companies House indicates a Mr. Guren Zhou held a directorial position at 13 interlinked UK flooring firms, including Iwood Flooring, Glamorous Spirit, Stile Interiors, Underlay Republic, and Flooring Republic.
All the mentioned companies operated in areas including Southampton, Preston, and London, active from 2008 to 2019, but have since been dissolved.
Interestingly, among the last to be dissolved were Anbo Commercial, Anbo UK, Anbo Investments, Anbo Stile, and Anbo International, where Zhou served as a Director.
The Anbo website is still operational, detailing the organization’s founding by “respected timber manufacturer” Zhou Senior in Shanghai in 1989, with exports to the US commencing in 1991. Bobby Zhou later took the reins, moving the business to the UK around 2005.
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— Aqua1 Foundation (@Aqua1Fndn) July 10, 2025
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Chronology of Anbo’s Shift from Flooring to Crypto asset Investments
We now learn how a Chinese manufacturing entity transitioned to the UK, led by Aqua1’s face, Bobby Zhou. How did Zhou find himself in Dubai, engaging with the President’s son, and investing $100 million into the Trump crypto asset empire via the WLFI token?
In 2017, Anbo acquired the Leeds-based online retailer Posh Flooring, thus establishing a presence in the north of England’s laminate trading market. A update article at that time indicated that the merger would simultaneously assist Posh Flooring’s expansion into Dubai and the UAE.
This clarifies how Zhou made his way to Dubai, yet it raises questions about how, merely eight years prior, this Chinese businessman was extending a luxury flooring brand from the UK to the UAE.
This mystery is resolved through an administrator’s report from 2018, which noted:
“In 2017, the interior design and construction landscapes altered to a point where management could no longer anticipate product market demand. Between January and November 2017, the Company [Anbo International] averaged monthly sales of approximately £523,000. However, during the later phase from December 2017 to March 2018, that average plummeted to around £94,000 per month.”
According to the Anbo website, from 2018 to 2023, the firm diversified into sectors including global banking, technology, medical, biotechnology, wealth management, the virtual world, and entertainment.
Examining this timeline reveals that the evident progression for Zhou and his Anbo firm was toward the digital currency arena. It is an amusing development that in less than eight years, Zhou transitioned from supplying hardwood flooring in the UK to securing nine-figure cryptocurrency agreements with Eric Trump and the larger Trump crypto asset empire.
The Trump-affiliated WLFI digital asset has an approximate market cap of $4.1 billion, placing it as the 42nd largest digital currency by crypto market cap, with a daily trading volume of $246 million, according to CoinGecko.
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