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Sun Sues Trump's Crypto Firm Over $276 Million Token Freeze
Sun says World Liberty froze about 4 billion WLFI tokens worth roughly $320 million and blocked him from voting on governance proposals.
- On Tuesday, crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun sued World Liberty Financial in a California federal court, alleging the Trump-family-backed venture committed fraud and wrongfully froze his $WLFI token holdings.
- Sun invested $45 million in 2024 to become a major advisor, citing support for decentralized finance and the Trump family; Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. oversee the venture and initially appointed him to establish credibility.
- The complaint alleges World Liberty secretly blacklisted Sun's wallet and threatened to permanently "burn" his tokens to manipulate market prices after he refused to mint the firm's USD1 stablecoin on his TRON blockchain.
- World Liberty dismissed the allegations as "baseless," while Sun stated he "tried in good faith to resolve this situation" before turning to courts; the dispute raises regulatory questions about the venture's centralized token control.
- Sun's lawsuit claims the venture is on the "brink of collapse" with insufficient reserves; this escalation follows a controversial governance proposal published April 15 that would indefinitely lock tokens of non-compliant holders.
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Crypto mogul sues Trump family venture over alleged fraud
Justin Sun, founder of Tron, during the Token2049 conference in Singapore on Oct. 2, 2025. (Photo by Suhaimi Abdullah/Bloomberg via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — A cryptocurrency mogul who has invested tens of millions of dollars in various enterprises tied to President Donald Trump and his family filed suit against the Trump family’s flagship crypto venture late Tuesday for, among other claims, alleged breach of contract and fraud — a major esca…
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