World Liberty Financial is known as a prominent cryptocurrency project with the support of Donald Trump, operating in the field of decentralized finance (DeFi) and stablecoin. The company has considered making a significant change to the locking policies of its governance tokens, WLFI, in the name of sustainability and transparency.
New unlock for governance tokens
According to World Liberty Financial’s announcement, a “fixed term opening” was proposed instead of unlimited locking for a total of 62,282,252,205 WLFI governance tokens. According to the proposal, team members, founders, consultants and strategic partners will not be able to use their tokens in any way for two years if they wish; After two years, tokens will be gradually released with a linear maturity of three years and will be fully distributed at the end of five years.
Insiders participating in the same plan will be required to completely burn 4.5 billion tokens from the system, which corresponds to 10 percent of the total vesting of 45,238,585,647 WLFI. For those who do not accept the offer, their tokens will continue to be locked indefinitely under the current conditions.
A different opening mechanism was suggested for early investors. This segment, which has a total of 17,043,666,558 WLFI in their possession, will not be able to access their tokens for two years; Then, with the linear expansion that will last for two years, they will gain these rights at the end of four years. There will be no obligation to burn any tokens for this group.
Voting conditions and process details
According to the statement, in order for the proposal to be implemented, a meeting quorum of at least 1 billion WLFI tokens will be required and the approval of the majority of participating investors will be required. The voting period was determined as seven days. After the function is activated, those who want to participate in the new unlock program will have ten days.
WLFI token was launched in September 2025. CryptoAppsy According to data, WLFI is currently trading at $0.082. This figure represents a sharp decline of 75.1 percent compared to WLFI’s peak of $0.33.
Ecosystem expansion steps and polemic with Justin Sun
The governance token initiative came to the agenda during the WLFI team’s period of developing its ecosystem and diversifying its platform functions. New features such as the launch of a stablecoin called USD1 in multiple networks and the possibility of giving and receiving loans on the WLFI interface have also been added to the work in this scope.
However, the project has also been associated with a harsh polemic with Tron founder Justin Sun in recent days. Sun claimed that there was a special blacklist function that was not declared in the WLFI smart contract, and that this function could be used by the team unilaterally to freeze wallets, restrict rights, and seize assets. Sun also stated that after he transferred approximately $ 9 million of WLFI from his own wallet in September 2025, the relevant wallet was frozen and he became a victim of this system.
The management team denied Justin Sun’s accusations and argued that Sun made these allegations to hide his own improper transactions. The project team announced that this dispute would be taken to court. The incident in question sparked controversy in the WLFI community.
According to the proposal text, if insiders want to accept the token launch, they will have to burn a total of 4.5 billion WLFI and their tokens will remain untouched for two years. It will then be released gradually over five years.
