{"id":45820,"date":"2025-09-04T19:31:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T19:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=45820"},"modified":"2025-09-04T19:31:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T19:31:50","slug":"world-liberty-financial-blacklists-justin-suns-address-with-107m-wlfi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=45820","title":{"rendered":"World Liberty Financial Blacklists Justin Sun&#8217;s Address With $107M WLFI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>World Liberty Financial (WLFI), the crypto protocol linked to Donald Trump and his family, on Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/etherscan.io\/tx\/0x0230880850ae1daebdb1a9984f0f6b1601390bbe4738152556738aa901862d74\">blacklisted<\/a> Tron founder and key investor Justin Sun&#8217;s blockchain address, impeding him from transfering WLFI tokens.<\/p>\n<p>The move affects 595 million unlocked WLFI tokens held on the address, worth roughly $107 million at current prices, according to Arkham data.<\/p>\n<p>The action followed the Sun-linked address making several outbound transactions of WLFI tokens on the Ethereum blockchain \u2014 including one for $9 million worth of the tokens \u2014 blockchain data shows.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.sanity.io\/images\/s3y3vcno\/production\/4ecba4f3cbfe26dfdc0fe9d65d1d81992a49bcb7-1434x672.png?auto=format\" alt=\"Blockchain transactions of WLFI tokens linked to Justin Sun (Arkham Intelligence)\" title=\"Blockchain transactions of WLFI tokens linked to Justin Sun (Arkham Intelligence)\"><\/p>\n<p>Sun, translated to English from Chinese of the original X post, said that the &#8220;address only conducted a few generic exchange deposit tests, with very low amounts, and then created address dispersion, without involving any buying or selling, which could not possibly have any impact on the market.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Representatives for Sun and World Liberty Financial did not immediately return CoinDesk&#8217;s requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>WLFI tumbled 20% over the past 24 hours. It&#8217;s down 42% since it started trading on exchanges on Sep. 1.<\/p>\n<h3>Sun, key investor in World Liberty Financial<\/h3>\n<p>Justin Sun emerged as a central backer of World Liberty Financial, initially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2024\/11\/26\/justin-sun-joins-donald-trumps-world-liberty-financial-as-adviser\">stepping<\/a> in with a $30 million token purchase and an advisory role in late 2024. Since then, WLFI has had increasing ties to the Tron ecosystem, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2025\/01\/22\/trump-affiliated-world-liberty-financial-makes-another-trx-buy\">adding<\/a> Tron&#8217;s native token TRX (TRX) to its treasury and with Eric Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2025\/05\/01\/world-liberty-s-stablecoin-will-be-used-to-close-mgx-s-usd2b-binance-investment-eric-trump\">revealing plans<\/a> to launch the protocol&#8217;s USD1 stablecoin on Tron.<\/p>\n<p>By mid-2025, Sun\u2019s total investment in the protocol had grown to about $75 million. On the eve of WLFI token&#8217;s market debut he was <a href=\"https:\/\/info.arkm.com\/research\/justin-sun-wlfi-launch-world-liberty-trump\">reported<\/a> to hold nearly $700 million worth of tokens, much of it still vesting-locked.<\/p>\n<p>Sun <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/justinsuntron\/status\/1962522143390056830\">said<\/a> on Monday, when WLFI launched, that &#8220;we have no plans to sell our unlocked tokens anytime soon.&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Liberty Financial (WLFI), the crypto protocol linked to Donald Trump and his family, on Thursday blacklisted Tron founder and key investor Justin Sun&#8217;s blockchain address, impeding him from transfering WLFI tokens. The move affects 595 million unlocked WLFI tokens held on the address, worth roughly $107 million at current prices, according to Arkham data. 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