WLF proposed keeping 80% of early investors' tokens locked
Early investors could already trade 20%; the proposal would keep the balance on a lock-and-vesting schedule through 2030.
Entities and roles
- World Liberty Financial, Inc.issuer setting token release schedule
- $WLFI governance tokenrestricted governance token
- Donald J. Trumpsitting president and disclosed beneficiary of family crypto interests
- Donald Trump Jr.son, Trump Organization executive, and listed WLF co-founder
- Eric Trumpson, Trump Organization executive, and listed WLF co-founder
Relationships in this file
- Donald J. Trumpson, family-business executive, and co-founder of the Trump-branded WLF ventureDonald Trump Jr.
- Donald J. Trumpson, family-business executive, and co-founder of the Trump-branded WLF ventureEric Trump
Money trail
otherWLF token-collateralized borrowing$75,000,000 - Reported source
- Unnamed lending counterparty
- Reported recipient
- World Liberty Financial
- Measured subject
- World Liberty Financial and its creditors
paymentReported partial loan repayment$25,000,000 - Reported source
- World Liberty Financial
- Reported recipient
- Unnamed lending counterparty
Claims and evidence
- factreported
Reuters reported that early World Liberty Financial investors could already trade 20% of their WLFI tokens and that WLF proposed keeping the remaining 80% locked for two years before vesting it over another two years; investors were due to vote the following week. The same report said WLF had borrowed $75 million against its own tokens, reported repaying $25 million on April 10, and faced investor complaints about frozen funds while WLFI reached a $0.078 low on April 12.
- Reuters via Investing.com: Trump-backed World Liberty Financial's early investors won't be able to fully cash out until after Trump's termToken-lock proposal, investor complaints, Super Node access tier, collateralized loan, repayment, and price-low passages
- World Liberty Financial: $WLFI Crypto-Asset White Paper under MiCAPart D.5 and related-party sections listing WLF co-founders, supporters, token allocations, and affiliated entities
Measurements
Reported WLFI price low$0.078 USD per token - Basis
- Observed
- Population
- WLFI market price reported by Reuters as an all-time low on April 12, 2026
- Period
- 2026-04-12 to 2026-04-12
- As of
- 2026-04-12
- Method
- Direct observation: Reuters' corrected reported price without multiplying it by token supply or investor holdings.
- Uncertainty
- Point-in-time token price, not a realized loss or a portfolio valuation; Reuters corrected the price in its published article.
Proposed early-investor locked share80% - Basis
- Observed
- Population
- WLFI tokens held by early investors under the proposed release schedule reported on April 15, 2026
- Period
- 2026-04-15 to 2026-04-15
- As of
- 2026-04-15
- Method
- Use Reuters' reported proposed locked share; 20% was already tradeable and the proposal would put the balance on separate lock and vesting periods.
- Uncertainty
- The proposal awaited an investor vote at the report date; the percentage is neither an enacted schedule nor an investor-loss amount.