{"id":45274,"date":"2025-09-02T12:32:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T12:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=45274"},"modified":"2025-09-02T12:32:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T12:32:42","slug":"crypto-trader-scores-250m-payday-as-trump-linked-wlfi-hits-open-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=45274","title":{"rendered":"Crypto Trader Scores $250M Payday as Trump-Linked WLFI Hits Open Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A trader who made $38 million trading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2025\/08\/27\/xpl-futures-on-hyperliquid-see-usd130m-wiped-out-ahead-of-the-plasma-token-s-launch\">last week&#8217;s plasma (XPL) volatility<\/a> secured another heft payday on Monday, profiting $250 million on the release world liberty financial (WLFI), a decentralized finance (DeFi) token linked to U.S. president Donald Trump&#8217;s family.<\/p>\n<p>Etherscan <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mlmabc\/status\/1962562091744915610?s=46\">data<\/a> shows that the wallet in question, belonging to a trader known on derivatives platform HyperLiquid and X as <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Techno_Revenant\">Techno Revenant<\/a>, invested $15 million in the WLFI token sale last year before being distributed 1% of the total supply on Monday, worth around $250 million.<\/p>\n<p>The nine-digit score comes after the trader made $38 million on HyperLiquid last week, trading XPL as it spiked and wiped out $130 million in open interest on the futures market.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.sanity.io\/images\/s3y3vcno\/production\/8c720298fe8d56f6d16cf26766d755c511ef4c0f-2726x1344.png?auto=format\" alt=\"XPL\/USD (TradingView)\" title=\"XPL\/USD (TradingView)\"><\/p>\n<p>WLFI began trading on Monday, spiking to 40 cents before retreating to 25 cents in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2025\/09\/02\/trump-linked-world-liberty-team-floats-buyback-and-burn-plan-as-wlfi-sinks\">rollercoaster session<\/a> that experienced more than $5 billion in trading volume.<\/p>\n<p>While Techno Revenant calmly collected a $250 million payday, others were not as lucky as hackers ran a targeted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2025\/09\/02\/holders-of-trump-s-crypto-token-targeted-by-hackers-in-phishing-exploit\">phishing campaign against WLFI token holders<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Security experts labeled it a \u201cclassic EIP-7702 phishing exploit&#8221; as hackers exploited a loophole tied to Ethereum\u2019s recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/tech\/2025\/05\/07\/the-protocol-ethereum-s-pectra-upgrade-finally-goes-live\">Pectra upgrade<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2025\/09\/02\/holders-of-trump-s-crypto-token-targeted-by-hackers-in-phishing-exploit\">Holders of Trump\u2019s Crypto Token Targeted by Hackers in Phishing Exploit<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A trader who made $38 million trading last week&#8217;s plasma (XPL) volatility secured another heft payday on Monday, profiting $250 million on the release world liberty financial (WLFI), a decentralized finance (DeFi) token linked to U.S. president Donald Trump&#8217;s family. Etherscan data shows that the wallet in question, belonging to a trader known on derivatives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-45274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}