World Liberty Financial Blacklists Justin Sun's Address With $107M WLFI

World Liberty Financial (WLFI), the crypto protocol linked to Donald Trump and his family, connected Thursday blacklisted Tron laminitis and cardinal capitalist Justin Sun's blockchain address, impeding him from transfering WLFI tokens.

The determination affects 595 cardinal unlocked WLFI tokens held connected the address, worthy astir $107 cardinal astatine existent prices, according to Arkham data.

The enactment followed the Sun-linked code making respective outbound transactions of WLFI tokens connected the Ethereum blockchain — including 1 for $9 cardinal worthy of the tokens — blockchain information shows.

Sun, translated to English from Chinese of the archetypal X post, said that the "address lone conducted a fewer generic speech deposit tests, with precise debased amounts, and past created code dispersion, without involving immoderate buying oregon selling, which could not perchance person immoderate interaction connected the market."

Representatives for Sun and World Liberty Financial did not instantly instrumentality CoinDesk's requests for comment.

WLFI tumbled 20% implicit the past 24 hours. It's down 42% since it started trading connected exchanges connected Sep. 1.

Sun, cardinal capitalist successful World Liberty Financial

Justin Sun emerged arsenic a cardinal backer of World Liberty Financial, initially stepping successful with a $30 cardinal token acquisition and an advisory relation successful precocious 2024. Since then, WLFI has had expanding ties to the Tron ecosystem, adding Tron's autochthonal token TRX (TRX) to its treasury and with Eric Trump revealing plans to motorboat the protocol's USD1 stablecoin connected Tron.

By mid-2025, Sun’s full concern successful the protocol had grown to astir $75 million. On the eve of WLFI token's marketplace debut helium was reported to clasp astir $700 cardinal worthy of tokens, overmuch of it inactive vesting-locked.

Sun said connected Monday, erstwhile WLFI launched, that "we person nary plans to merchantability our unlocked tokens anytime soon."