Trump-Backed WLFI Plunges 58% – Buyback Plan Announced to Halt Freefall

World Liberty Financial (WLFI), the Trump-linked DeFi project, is scrambling to stop a market collapse after its token lost over 50% of its value in ￰1￱ Friday, the project unveiled a full buyback-and-burn program, directing all treasury liquidity fees to absorb selling ￰2￱ to a governance post on X, the community approved the plan overwhelmingly, with WLFI pledging full transparency for every ￰3￱ Update: The community has voted to use 100% of WLFI Treasury Liquidity Fees for Buyback & Burn, passing with almost unanimous ￰4￱ team will begin implementing this initiative this week, and all buybacks & burns will be transparently posted once conducted. — WLFI (@worldlibertyfi) September 25, 2025 The urgency of the move reflects WLFI’s steep losses in recent ￰5￱ is trading Friday at $0.19, down from its September 1 peak of $0.46, according to CoinMarketCap , a 58% drop in less than a ￰6￱ losses stand at 12.85%, with a 15.45% decline for the ￰7￱ isn’t the project’s first attempt at ￰8￱ days after launch, WLFI burned 47 million tokens on September 3 to counter a 31% sell-off, sending the supply to a verified burn ￰9￱ World Liberty Financial, the buyback-and-burn program represents both a damage-control measure and a test of community ￰10￱ tokenomics adjustments can provide short-term relief, the project will need to convince investors that WLFI has staying power beyond ￰11￱ Launches Buyback-and-Burn Plan, Linking Token Scarcity to Platform Growth According to the governance proposal , WLFI will use fees generated from its protocol-owned liquidity (POL) pools on Ethereum, BNB Chain, and Solana to repurchase tokens from the open ￰12￱ bought back, the tokens will be sent to a burn address, permanently removing them from ￰13￱ Proposal) September 23, 2025 But the buyback phenomenon isn’t limited to DeFi.

Increasingly, listed companies with crypto treasuries are adopting aggressive repurchase programs , sometimes to offset losses as their digital assets ￰14￱ to a report, at least seven firms, ranging from gaming to biotech, have turned to buybacks, often funded by debt, to prop up falling stock ￰15￱ of the latest is Thumzup Media, a digital advertising company with a growing Web3 ￰16￱ Thursday, it launched a $10 million share repurchase plan , extending its capital return strategy through 2026, after completing a $1 million program that saw 212,432 shares bought at an average of $4.71. DeFi Development ( @defidevcorp ) expanded its stock buyback program to $100M, holding over 2M $SOL tokens. #DeFi #Solana ￰0￱ — ￰17￱ (@cryptonews) September 24, 2025 DeFi Development Corp, the first public company built around a Solana-based treasury strategy, also recently expanded its buyback program to $100 million , up from $1 million, making it one of the largest stock repurchase initiatives in the digital asset sector.

Together, these cases show how buybacks, whether in tokenomics or equities, are emerging as a key mechanism for stabilizing value and signaling confidence, even as motivations and execution vary widely.