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This ‘Trump supporter’ just turned $350k into $8 million

As the cryptocurrency market turns its attention to World Liberty Financial (WLFI), a Trump family-linked project preparing for its unlock, on-chain data shows that investors are already witnessing significant ￰1￱ this end, a crypto investor using the Ethereum ( ETH ) domain ￰2￱ has turned a $347,000 bet on WLFI into an unrealized gain of more than $8 million, according to the latest on-chain data retrieved by Finbold from Lookonchain on September ￰3￱ records indicate that the wallet spent USDC, USDT, and Ethereum approximately 224 days ago to acquire roughly 23.14 million WLFI ￰4￱ current market valuations, that stash is now worth about $8.5 million, representing a paper return of nearly 25 times the initial investment.

A Trump supporter registered the domain "trumpisthebest. eth" and spent $347K to buy 23.14M $WLFI ($8.5M now), and is now sitting on an unrealized profit of over $8M. ￰0￱ ￰5￱ — Lookonchain (@lookonchain) September 1, 2025 WLFI unlock The timing of the purchase appears prescient. WLFI, tied to Trump family business interests, has gained traction as it prepared for its September 1 ￰6￱ of the event, the project saw a sharp increase in derivatives ￰7￱ the past 24 hours, WLFI derivatives volume surged 535% to $4.54 billion, while open interest climbed 45% to $887 million, according to ￰8￱ led trading with $2.22 billion in volume, nearly half the ￰9￱ unlock will release 20% of early investor allocations, equal to 5% of the 100 billion token ￰10￱ buyers, who paid between $0.015 and $0.05 per token, now sit on paper gains of up to 20x at current prices of $0.32–$0.34.

It’s worth noting that WLFI raised $550 million across two funding ￰11￱ will be distributed through a “Lockbox” process with further vesting to limit ￰12￱ has confirmed it will list WLFI spot pairs at 13:00 UTC on September 1, alongside other global exchanges, a move likely to increase interest around the ￰13￱ image via Shutterstock

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