Former President Donald Trump and members of his family have been preparing to launch a new decentralized digital currency project that will be known as World Liberty Financial as part of their continued outreach to and involvement in the cryptocurrency community.

It appears that a false launch of that crypto project was prematurely announced when the X accounts of two members of Trump's family -- daughter-in-law Lara and daughter Tiffany -- were briefly hacked Wednesday night, CNBC reported.

The X platform is said to have acted quickly to lock down and restore the hacked accounts while it was separately made clear by World Liberty Financial that the new decentralized finance project had not yet gone live.

Trump family X accounts "compromised"

The X account of Lara Trump, co-chair of the Republican National Committee, posted a message shortly after 8 pm ET Wednesday that announced the launch of World Liberty Financial and provided links to a coin and websites that were purported to be the "only official channels of World Liberty Financial."

Just a moment later, a similar message announcing and endorsing the supposed World Liberty launch was posted by Tiffany Trump's X account.

Almost immediately, however, the former president's middle son and Lara's husband, Eric, took to his own X account and declared in a since-deleted post, "This is a scam!!" as he claimed that both his wife's and sister's "profiles have been compromised."

It is unclear who was behind the alleged hacks and may never be known, as the linked websites in the false launch posts were traced back to an anonymous domain hosting platform based in the Caribbean island nation of St. Kitts and Nevis that was created by a cofounder of the dark web platform The Pirate Bay.

"Stay vigilant and avoid scams!"

According to Fox Business, the X account of World Liberty Financial immediately addressed what had occurred and reminded everyone that the project had not yet officially launched and to be wary of attempted scams in its name.

The account posted, "ALERT: Lara’s and Tiffany Trump's X accounts have been hacked. Do NOT click on any links or purchase any tokens shared from their profiles. We're actively working to fix this, but please stay vigilant and avoid scams!"

The outlet also reported that the WLFI account also changed its bio to read: "Beware of Scams! Fake tokens & airdrop offers are circulating. We aren’t live yet!"

As for the claimed hacks, Eric Trump later wrote in a post, ".@twitter was amazing and has locked down @LaraLeaTrump and @TiffanyATrump accounts within minutes."

Other alleged Trump coins launched

Crypto website CoinDesk, which just hours before the alleged hacks had published details on the purportedly imminent launch of the decentralized finance project, reported that this appeared to be the third crypto-related stumble for the Trump family in a matter of months.

Earlier in the year, there was a launch of a supposed DJT coin, which bears the initials of the former president -- and is the NASDAQ ticker symbol for Trump's media company, per CNBC -- but in reality, the digital coin was not connected to the Trump family.

Shortly after that, another ostensibly Trump-linked digital coin dubbed Restore the Republic, or RTR, was also launched and soared in value to as much as $155 million before plummeting back down to nothing.