WLFI sees 530% surge in derivatives volume to $4.6B ahead of unlock

The Trump-linked WLFI token is set to unlock its first tranche today at 8:00 a. m. ET, leading to a surge in activity across major ￰1￱ has announced that it will start spot trading for WLFI, changing all pre-sale futures into perpetual ￰2￱ to CoinGlass , the derivative trading volume for WLFI increased by over 530% to over $4.6 billion on ￰3￱ the time of writing, open interest is up by over 60% to around $941 ￰4￱ derivative opened on August 23 at $0.41 and is currently down at $0.32, but continues to receive vigorous ￰5￱ WLFI token’s current price is $0.0115 according to CoinMarketCap data , with a fully diluted volume of $453.15K. WLFI token begins trading on Monday, September 1 According to CoinGlass, Binance WLFI derivative trading accounted for the most transactions, with a volume exceeding $2.21 billion over the past 24-hour ￰6￱ crypto exchange platform also recorded more than $443 million in open ￰7￱ and Bitget exchanges recorded $924 and $648 million in volume, ￰8￱ is officially coming to @binance the largest crypto exchange in the world 🦅🤝 ￰0￱ — WLFI (@worldlibertyfi) September 1, 2025 The WLFI project announced that 20% of the tokens purchased in early fundraising rounds at around $0.015 to $0.05 will be unlocked today via the ‘Lockbox’ process to control how early investors claim and release their ￰9￱ the current price range holds, early investors accounting for at least 5% of the total supply may receive up to 20 times their initial ￰10￱ Trump family holds 22.5 billion tokens via DEFI LLC, which places them at just over $25.9 million with the current ￰11￱ tokens are subject to scrutiny before ￰12￱ WLFI token allows holders to stake a yield, vote on proposals, and provide liquidity to DeFi ￰13￱ incorporates a fixed supply and deflationary mechanisms that support long-term ￰14￱ to CoinGlass data, at least 14,000 wallets hold the token, showing a growth in interest in the project’s early ￰15￱ await WLFI’s trading debut amid USD1 launch on Solana World Liberty Financial recently revealed its plan to launch a USD1 stablecoin backed by the ￰16￱ described it as a stablecoin that meets the internet capital markets, and more details will follow ￰17￱ project launched the stablecoin today on Solana with a 1:1 redeemable basis for the ￰18￱ Dhabi state firm has already committed $2 billion to support the project, showing a growing interest in governments integrating ￰19￱ the good news surrounding the project, it has attracted scrutiny from rival politicians and watchdogs, who have cited potential conflicts of ￰20￱ Democrats’ proposal to impose restrictions on the GENIUS Act stablecoin bill, which Trump recently signed into law, failed to ￰21￱ reported that the lawmakers questioned how oversight would be handled as the legislation places USD1 stablecoin regulation under the OCC and Federal ￰22￱ Democrat senators posed a warning that the President’s executive order to increase influence over regulators may risk unprecedented outcomes to the American financial ￰23￱ await the token debut to see how it will test the project’s ability to sustain momentum in the competitive DeFi ￰24￱ speculating on the token have already anticipated rewards, with one notable Whale on Hyperliquid, who used three times leverage to make over $1 million in profit from a position of 8.6 million tokens valued at $3.2 ￰25￱ up to Bybit and start trading with $30,050 in welcome gifts