{"id":61448,"date":"2025-09-05T12:13:45","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T09:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=61448"},"modified":"2025-09-05T12:15:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T09:15:15","slug":"justin-sun-blacklisted-by-wlfi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/justin-sun-blacklisted-by-wlfi\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Sun Blacklisted by WLFI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The DeFi project <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/trump-family-secures-control-over-world-liberty-financial\">of the Trump family<\/a>, World Liberty Financial (WLFI), has blacklisted the address of TRON founder Justin Sun. This occurred following the transfer of 50 million WLFI tokens to the HTX exchange.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">JUST IN: JUSTIN SUN\u2019S ADDRESS BLACKLISTED FOR TRANSFERRING $9M <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24WLFI&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$WLFI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/O25281D7mi\">pic.twitter.com\/O25281D7mi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Arkham (@arkham) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/arkham\/status\/1963655261249228999?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 4, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to on-chain data, the block occurred immediately after a $9 million transaction.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This has led to speculation that the WLFI team is preventing large holders from selling tokens and pressuring the price during the first week of trading.<\/p>\n<p>Sun commented on the situation on X. He stated that he was conducting \u201croutine deposit tests\u201d with small amounts of WLFI. According to him, the actions were not related to buying or selling and could not impact the market.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">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.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 H.E. Justin Sun \ud83d\udc68\u200d\ud83d\ude80 (Astronaut Version) (@justinsuntron) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/justinsuntron\/status\/1963695382996894000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 4, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Previously, Sun, who participated in the WLFI presale, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/justinsuntron\/status\/1962522143390056830\">stated<\/a> that he \u201cwould not sell unlocked tokens in the near future.\u201d He spoke of a long-term vision for the project.<\/p>\n<p>WLFI trading <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/wlfi-market-capitalisation-reaches-8-3-billion-following-exchange-listing\">began<\/a> on September 1. After rising to $0.32, the token price fell below $0.18. To support the rate, the project <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lookonchain\/status\/1963070423178084541\">burned 47 million tokens<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/governance.worldlibertyfinancial.com\/t\/proposal-use-100-of-wlfi-treasury-liquidity-fees-for-buyback-burn\/41226\">proposed<\/a> a buyback program using protocol fees. The total WLFI issuance is 100 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Company representatives stated that compromised wallets were blacklisted to protect user funds.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">2\/<br \/>Security: we blocked hacker attempts stemming from end-user compromises (not an exploit of WLFI). The following transactions show a WLFI-designated wallet executing mass blacklisting of wallets identified as compromised (private-key loss) prior to launch. These onchain actions\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 WLFI (@worldlibertyfi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/worldlibertyfi\/status\/1962949535602266247?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 2, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to WLFI, a designated wallet executed transactions for \u201cmass blacklisting\u201d and disabled compromised accounts. The team emphasized that the incidents were caused by users losing their private keys.<\/p>\n<p>Back on September 1, SlowMist founder Yu Jian <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/wlfi-market-capitalisation-reaches-8-3-billion-following-exchange-listing\">reported<\/a> that hackers were exploiting a vulnerability in an Ethereum update to steal WLFI. Analysts at Bubblemaps discovered \u201ccomplex clones\u201d\u2014smart contracts mimicking the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump family&#8217;s World Liberty Financial project has blacklisted TRON founder Justin Sun&#8217;s address following the transfer of 50 million WLFI tokens to the HTX exchange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"WLFI blacklists Justin Sun after token transfer to HTX.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1412,1302,1770],"class_list":["post-61448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bans-and-restrictions","tag-justin-sun","tag-world-liberty-financial-wlfi"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"346","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"WLFI blacklists Justin Sun after token transfer to HTX.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61450,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61448\/revisions\/61450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}