World Liberty Financial threatens top token holder with legal action as WLFI loses $700M amid token scandal

Blockchain ekosistemine dair önemli bir haber gündeme geldi. World Liberty Financial (WLFI), the decentralized finance platform backed by President Donald Trump , is navigating a deepening crisis as a precipitous drop in its token price collides with a bitter public dispute involving Tron founder Justin Sun . The turbulence centers on two distinct but compounding controversies: accusations from Sun that the protocol's team used centralized “backdoor” mechanisms to freeze his eight-figure investment. Additionally, the project is facing mounting market anxiety over a highly concentrated, nine-figure borrowing loop executed by the protocol’s team on a decentralized lending platform.

The confluence of these events has wiped out hundreds of millions in market value, dropping the WLFI token to an all-time low of $0. 07714 and raising alarms about structural vulnerabilities within the project’s tokenomics. The architecture of WLFI's freeze of Sun's wallet The public feud reignited over the weekend, when Sun launched a blistering critique on the social media platform X.

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In an April 12 post on X, Sun accused World Liberty Financial of embedding hidden smart contract functions to arbitrarily seize investor assets. He further stated that the WLFI team was treating “the crypto community as a personal ATM” and was engaging in illegitimate actions that “were never authorized by any fair, transparent, or good-faith community governance process. ” Notably, Sun is not a fringe participant in the WLFI ecosystem .

He was the project’s largest early external backer, pouring roughly $75 million into WLFI to support what was pitched as a democratized vision for decentralized finance. However, his wallet was blacklisted by the protocol in September 2025 , effectively freezing his assets. Due to the token's price fluctuations, Sun's unrealized losses tied to the frozen wallet now exceed $80 million.

Related Reading World Liberty Financial blocklists Justin Sun's address holding 595 million WLFI Sun's blocked holdings represent not only a substantial portion of circulating tokens, but also a 2. 4 billion WLFI stash waiting to be unlocked. Sep 4, 2025 Gino Matos In recent statements, the Tron founder characterized the protocol’s governance as “theater,” alleging that the network's technical structure fundamentally contradicts its decentralized branding.

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On April 12, Sun cited on-chain records demonstrating that a single Externally Owned Account (EOA, which also sits on the protocol’s 3-of-5 multisignature wallet) executed the blacklist. One person—one single individual—has the unilateral power to freeze any token holder's assets. Seizing those assets requires a 3-of-5 multisig vote, but freezing requires only one signature.

Justin Sun Founder TRON DAO Share on View Profile On-chain analysts have largely corroborated Sun's structural claims. Pseudonymous Yearn Finance developer Banteg noted that the original WLFI token deployed in September 2024 contained no blacklist functions. The restriction capabilities were introduced via a series of smart contract upgrades in late 2025, nearly a year after Sun’s initial investment.

That timeline is central to Sun’s case because it suggests the most controversial controls were added after early investors had already committed funds. Banteg also said Sun was placed in a separate vesting category that did not apply to the rest of the investor base. According to that analysis, WLFI’s multisig configured a 20% initial release for Sun’s allocation, after which he transferred a portion of those tokens out.

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