The surprising move came as World Liberty Financial's WLFI Token price plummeted on September 4.
World Liberty Blocks Justin Sun's Wallet After WLFI Deposit Transaction
Late at night on September 4, 2025, the DeFi project advised by the Trump family, World Liberty Financial (WLFI), suddenly announced that it had blacklisted Justin Sun 's wallet address after detecting suspicious activity.
This information was discovered by a signal account on X (Twitter) and quickly caused a stir in public opinion. This account also claimed that an exchange used user Token to push the price down.
Transaction: https://t.co/OreqUpIK3S
— zoomer (@zoomerfied) September 4, 2025
Why is this news important?
- World Liberty Financial just launched the WLFI Token earlier this week: As reported by Coin68, the new WLFI Token was launched on September 1, quickly listed on almost every major exchange, attracting huge trading volume and at one point reaching a Capital of 9.5 billion USD. Most investors who participated in the project's two pre-sale rounds have made a profit of ten times.
- Justin Sun is a major investor in World Liberty Financial: Justin Sun is one of the “whales” who put his trust in Trump’s DeFi project right from its launch in October 2024, Capital up to 75 million USD for 2 fundraising rounds. At the time of the WLFI Token launch, that investment amount is estimated to have increased 10 times .
- Projects block investor wallets: This is rare in the DeFi space, as projects usually only blacklist hacker wallets to avoid asset dispersion and limit damage in the event of a security incident. Justin Sun is also an investor in World Liberty, and if the transferred funds are the unlocked Token , there is nothing wrong with this. Data from Arkham shows that Justin Sun did indeed transfer WLFI worth $9 million to a Binance deposit address.
- Information ambiguity in the context of WLFI's sharp decline: The incident has not yet been clarified because World Liberty Financial has not officially explained its actions, nor determined the reason why WLFI's price plummeted more than 24% on September 4.
Justin Sun speaks out
Shortly after the accusations spread throughout the crypto community, Justin Sun stated on his personal X page:
Our address only carried out a few general exchange deposit tests with very small amounts, followed by an address dispersion. No buying or selling was involved, so it could not possibly have any impact on the market.
— HE Justin Sun 👨🚀 (Astronaut Version) (@justinsuntron) September 4, 2025
“My address only made a few test deposits to the exchange with a very small amount, and then dispersed the funds to many other addresses. There were no further buys or sells, so it could not have had any Price Impact on the market.”
Arkham statistics show that Justin Sun currently owns 545 million unlocked WLFI Token , worth $102 million.
At the time of WLFI's launch, Justin Sun also affirmed his long-term belief in the project, promising that he had no intention of selling the unlocked Token . In addition to investing in WLFI, Justin Sun also integrated the project's stablecoin USD1 into the TRON network, with the intention of increasing the circulating supply of USD1 from the current $50 million to $200 million.
Excited to share my thoughts on $WLFI — I truly believe this will be one of the biggest and most important projects in crypto. 🦅
— HE Justin Sun 👨🚀 (Astronaut Version) (@justinsuntron) September 1, 2025
We have no plans to sell our unlocked tokens anytime soon. The Longing-term vision here is too powerful, and I'm fully aligned with the mission.…
Being "close" to World Liberty Financial, a project with close ties to the sons of US President Donald Trump, also helped Justin Sun approach the most powerful man in the world through a dinner party with memecoin holder TRUMP in May, as well as being considered by the SEC to end the investigation into TRON.
Thanks to the reopening of the US, Justin Sun's TRON Inc. recently held an IPO on the Nasdaq, Followin_X2pTc7 and announced plans to raise $1 billion to create a TRX treasury fund.
Evidence
JUST IN: JUSTIN SUN'S ADDRESS BLACKLISTED FOR TRANSFERRING $9M $WLFI pic.twitter.com/O25281D7mi
— Arkham (@ Arkham) September 4, 2025
WLFI Token price movement since listing, CoinGecko screenshot at 08:30 AM on 05/09/2025
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