Key Highlights
- Justin Sun’s WLFI tokens have been locked since September, losing around $60 million as the token’s price continued to decline.
- Sun was blacklisted in September 2025 after moving $9 million in WLFI; his wallet remains locked more than three months later.
- Sun invested about $175 million in Trump-linked tokens, including $75 million in WLFI and $100 million in the TRUMP memecoin.
Justin Sun, TRON’s Founder and one of crypto’s most prominent figures, is caught in a prolonged dispute with World Liberty Financial (WLFI), a DeFi project closely tied to the U.S. President Donald Trump and his family.
Blockchain analytics firm Bubblemaps says the value of Sun’s frozen WLFI tokens has fallen by about $60 million as the token’s price continued to decline.
Despite being one of WLFI’s largest investors, Sun remains surprisingly blacklisted more than three months after the conflict began, leaving a significant portion of his holdings inaccessible.
How the dispute began
This problem emerged in September 2025, shortly after their token generation event (TGE), and just before the freeze, on September 2, 2025, Sun announced that he had claimed $200 million of WLFI tokens, obtaining approximately 600 million tokens in total.
He stressed he had no plans to sell, describing himself as a long-term supporter of the project. At the time, blockchain data suggested his total WLFI holdings were valued close to $900 million.
The blacklisting followed a transfer of roughly $8.9 million worth of WLFI tokens from Sun’s wallet to another address. Shortly after, WLFI’s token contract froze the wallet, preventing any further transfers.
Sun later clarified that these movements were routine wallet tests and address management, not an attempt to sell tokens, and insisted they had no impact on the market.
Political ties and an unresolved standoff
The situation stands out given the scale of Sun’s backing of Trump-linked crypto ventures. He invested about $175 million across Trump-associated tokens, including $75 million in WLFI and roughly $100 million in the TRUMP memecoin.
Sun also became the largest holder of the TRUMP token and attended a gala dinner hosted by President Trump, where he received a “Trump Golden Torbillon” watch.
Sun has publicly rejected claims of wrongdoing, calling the freeze “unreasonable” and arguing that locking tokens goes against core principles of crypto. Despite the standoff, he even pledged additional purchases of Trump-linked tokens.
Since WLFI began trading in September 2025, its price has dropped over 55% and currently sits around $0.1326. With President Trump’s three sons listed as co-founders, WLFI has not indicated if Sun’s wallet will be unblocked, leaving the dispute unresolved.
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