{"id":43245,"date":"2026-04-22T16:44:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T16:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=43245"},"modified":"2026-04-22T16:44:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T16:44:30","slug":"justin-sun-sues-trump-linked-world-liberty-financial-over-frozen-wlfi-tokens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=43245","title":{"rendered":"Justin Sun Sues Trump-Linked World Liberty Financial Over Frozen WLFI Tokens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<br \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSun claims the WLFI team froze his tokens, threatened burning, and denied repeated requests to restore access and participation rights immediately.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Tron founder Justin Sun has filed a lawsuit in a California federal court against the Donald Trump-linked crypto project, World Liberty Financial, to protect his legal rights as a holder of WLFI tokens.<\/p>\n<p>He acknowledged being a supporter of President Donald Trump and his administration\u2019s push to make the United States more crypto-friendly, and that the lawsuit does not change his stance toward them.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"justin-sun-vs-world-liberty\">Justin Sun vs World Liberty<\/h2>\n<p>Sun <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/justinsuntron\/status\/2046787043557244983\" target=\"_blank\">alleged <\/a>that certain members of the World Liberty Financial team have frozen all of his tokens, removed his voting rights on governance proposals, and threatened to permanently destroy his tokens by burning them without proper justification. He said he tried to resolve the issue privately with the project team, but his requests to unfreeze tokens and restore rights were rejected, leaving him no option but legal action.<\/p>\n<p>The Tron founder stated that he wants to be treated like other early investors who received WLFI tokens, without special treatment or disadvantage.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, certain individuals on the World Liberty project team have been operating the project in a manner that goes against President Trump\u2019s values. I do not believe President Trump would condone these actions if he knew about them.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He went on to add that the proposal, introduced on April 15th, is \u201cbad for the community,\u201d but since World Liberty froze his early investor tokens, he is not able to vote against it.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"recap-token-lock-controversy\">Recap: Token Lock Controversy<\/h2>\n<p>For those unfamiliar, the project released a proposal to convert 62.28 billion WLFI tokens from indefinite lock to a fixed vesting schedule. Holders who do not agree to the new terms will have their tokens locked indefinitely, but they can still use them for governance, subject to any future unlock decisions.<\/p>\n<p>In response, Sun <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/justin-sun-flags-coercion-tactics-in-wlfi-proposal-impacting-billions-in-tokens\/\">called<\/a> it \u201cone of the most absurd governance scams\u201d he has ever seen. He claimed the proposal penalizes dissent and turns participation into coercion rather than open governance, while describing World Liberty as a \u201cdictatorship wearing the mask of a DAO.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"you-may-also-like\" class=\"heading-4\">You may also like:<\/h3>\n<p>World Liberty pushed back<span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/worldlibertyfi\/status\/2043351375640182862\" target=\"_blank\">accusing<\/a><\/span>\u00a0Sun of \u201cplaying the victim\u201d while making baseless allegations to cover up his own misconduct. It said this was a repeated pattern across different disputes. The platform also claimed it has contracts, evidence, and the truth on its side, adding that the matter will be settled in court.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-12\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<div><center><span style=\"font-size:11px; color: gray;\">SPECIAL OFFER (Exclusive)<\/span><\/center><br \/>\n<b>Binance Free $600 (CryptoPotato Exclusive): <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/binance600f\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Use this link<\/a> to register a new account and receive $600 exclusive welcome offer on Binance<\/b> (<a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/binance600d\/\">full details<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><b>LIMITED OFFER for CryptoPotato readers at Bybit: <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/pl\/bybit24\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Use this link<\/a> to register and open a $500 FREE position on any coin!<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/justin-sun-sues-trump-linked-world-liberty-financial-over-frozen-wlfi-tokens\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Sun claims the WLFI team froze his tokens, threatened burning, and denied repeated requests to restore access&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5983,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-43245","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crypto","8":"cs-entry","9":"cs-video-wrap"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}