Justin Sun presses WLFI team to unlock $500M frozen tokens as dispute escalates

Justin Sun has reacted to reports that his WLFI tokens were frozen unreasonably, asking the project team to unlock them. On-chain data revealed that World Liberty Fi had blacklisted two wallets linked to ￰0￱ responded on X today, saying his WLFI tokens were frozen without reason and asked for them to be ￰1￱ dispute surfaced after blockchain tracking platforms identified restrictions placed on wallets associated with ￰2￱ showed that two wallets tied to him had been blocked, reportedly locking more than $500 million worth of WLFI ￰3￱ Sun wants $500 million worth of WLFI tokens unlocked A Cryptopolitan report showed that, based on Arkham Intelligence, Sun had moved approximately 9 million WLFI tokens shortly after unlocking them, raising speculation that he was preparing to sell ￰4￱ received 540 million WLFI tokens during the token’s launch and had a vested reserve of around 2.4 ￰5￱ the World Liberty Financials team and the global community, As one of the early major investors in World Liberty Financials, I have contributed not only capital but also my trust and support for the future of this ￰6￱ goal has always been to grow alongside the team… — ￰7￱ Sun 👨‍🚀 (Astronaut Version) (@justinsuntron) September 5, 2025 Word Liberty Financial’s move to lock the tokens reflected a drastic approach, as Sun was one of the initial most prominent backers during its presale ￰8￱ participation helped with quicker ￰9￱ argued that as one of the earliest members, he deserved the same respect accorded to peers and the same ￰10￱ continued to say that tokens are sacred and inviolable, which should be the most basic value of any ￰11￱ into his statement, he called on the project team to respect DeFi principles and unlock his ￰12￱ also warned that such actions are one-sided and could harm confidence in World Liberty Financial and break the rights of legitimate ￰13￱ Liberty Financial’s decision to restrict the funds was primarily driven by the on-chain data indicating that Sun moved WLFI to the HTX exchange, a platform over which he has significant control, which raised suspicion that Sun may have been using the exchange to offload the ￰14￱ earlier Cryptopolitan report highlighted that HTX offered up to 20% annualized yield for WLFI ￰15￱ discoveries showed attempts to move the funds to Binance, although the token is not yet listed on the ￰16￱ token falls to $0.18 amid Justin Sun’s wallet saga The crypto entrepreneur rejected the allegations, arguing that those transactions were genuine transfers for experimental ￰17￱ said the token movements were tests of HTX’s infrastructure, rather than attempts to ￰18￱ community reaction was largely critical of ￰19￱ King, CEO of SwanDesk, wrote that Sun’s need for ChatGPT to write the apology was ￰20￱ called on WLFI to avoid anything related to Sun and associated partners.

WLFI’s price has dropped to $0.186 from its ATH of $0.46 during the launch, a more than 40% drop from the post-launch ￰21￱ least 29% of wallets were sold completely after the token’s launch, contributing to the current fall in its ￰22￱ has not yet commented publicly or shown any intent to unlock the tokens so ￰23￱ up to Bybit and start trading with $30,050 in welcome gifts