According to the official social media of World Liberty Financial (WLFI), it is developing a token transfer function. In mid-June of this year, the market has already spread the news that WLFI will start to circulate ahead of schedule. The reason is that the WLFI project party deleted the mandatory 12-month lock-up clause on the official website and attached the company's right to modify and update the terms of service at any time.
The project is endorsed by the Trump family and the public offering sells 550 million US dollars. Originally, the public offering tokens of the project were scheduled to be locked for 12 months from March 14, 2025, but now the early unlocking is imminent. It seems that in order to make money, the WLFI project party is really anxious.
WLFI and old crypto money have become a community of interests
In October 2024, the WLFI token was officially sold. The project was advised by the Trump family. In order to support "Trump's campaign for the US presidency", it initially raised 300 million US dollars from the public. Later, an additional 250 million US dollars was raised.
The first round of token sales started with low demand, but as the popularity of Trump-related meme coin TRUMP increased, the WLFI project was quickly sold out, especially Justin Sun, who spent 30 million in the first round of public offerings of the project and then spent 45 million in the second round.
The support of the crypto giants for the project is more like a kind of flattery to Trump. Not only Justin Sun, DWF Labs invested 25 million US dollars to purchase WLFI tokens, and Aqua 1, a Web3 investment fund headquartered in the UAE, announced in June 2025 that it would invest 100 million US dollars in WLFI tokens.
There are also many institutions and projects supporting its stablecoin USD1. The stablecoin was launched in March 2025. When the stablecoin was just launched, Abu Dhabi investment institution MGX made a strategic investment of US$2 billion in Binance, and the investment was settled in USD1. And the stablecoin is not only minted on Ethereum, but also on BNB Chain and Tron.
As can be seen from the above, the WLFI project has been deeply bound to the leading institutions and individuals in the crypto industry. Not only Binance and Tron, but also multiple protocols and DAOs have announced the integration of USD1, and some crypto payment and commercial projects have also been connected to USD1.
In June 2025, WLFI announced a partnership with London crypto fund Re7 to launch the USD1 stablecoin vault on Ethereum lending protocol Euler Finance and Binance Chain staking platform Lista to expand the influence of USD1 in the Ethereum and BNB Chain ecosystems. Lista is the main BNB staking platform invested by Binance Labs.
In addition, Aave, the largest decentralized lending platform, has also launched a proposal to introduce USD1 into the Ethereum and BNBchain markets, and the draft has been voted through.
In terms of trading platforms, USD1 has landed on CEXs such as Binance, Bitget, Gate, and Huobi, as well as on DEXs such as Uniswap and PancakeSwap.
According to the project website, the Trump family can receive 75% of the net income from token sales and 60% of future business net profits. Fundamentally speaking, the support and support of crypto institutions is undoubtedly another political donation to Trump.
Trump's strict selection, retail investors are being harvested
Last December, the WLFI project kept buying tokens such as ETH, AAVE, LINK, ONDO, ENA, etc. These tokens initially saw an objective rise due to the Trump effect and the bull market. Retail investors also followed "Trump" to buy tokens. These tokens were also called "Trump's strict selection", but with the crazy buying of retail investors, these tokens also fell, and retail investors "bought at the top of the mountain again".
If the following-the-trend purchases of retail investors are just the behavior of leeks that will definitely be harvested, then the commercial agreement reached between the WLFI project and other projects that "buy WLFI tokens, we will buy the tokens of your project in the wallet" is a blatant harvest.
TRON's founder, Justin Sun, bought $75 million worth of WLFI tokens. In return, WLFI first purchased $4.7 million worth of TRX on January 20, 2025, and then increased its holdings twice on the 22nd and 24th. At the highest point, it held a total of 40.718 million TRX. It also did enough marketing for TRON.
Following the president to buy coins, it turns out that it is just a fast-running takeover game.
This time, WLFI, which was originally scheduled to be unlocked next year, will be unlocked in advance again. The intention of the WLFI project party to eagerly promote its circulation to obtain benefits is self-evident. After all, with the passage of the Stablecoin Act and the Great Beauty Act, as well as the increase in expectations of interest rate cuts, the market is increasingly optimistic about the arrival of the bull market. The WLFI project party has keenly captured this change in market sentiment and chose to unlock the tokens in advance, hoping to take advantage of the bull market and increase the trading activity and price of WLFI tokens with the help of market heat. Project owners and early investors are also expected to get rich returns.
After the launch, there will definitely be a large number of retail investors selling, and of course there will be many retail investors who missed the early public offering waiting to buy. Will WLFI replicate the surge in TRUMP tokens? Or is it just a tragic harvest similar to TRUMP tokens? Compared with TRUMP tokens, there are too many early investors waiting to make profits in WLFI, and people may have been afraid of being harvested by TRUMP tokens.
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