Trump’s Secret Crypto Sale: Billions of WLFI Tokens Sold to Private Investors

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Trump’s Crypto Venture Raised Millions From Undisclosed WLFI Token Sale, Report Reveals

World Liberty Financial, a cryptocurrency project closely associated with the Trump family, is under increased examination. A new report shows the company secretly sold billions of its WLFI tokens to a select group of investors.

World Liberty Back In The Spotlight

A recent Bloomberg report uncovered that World Liberty Financial, a cryptocurrency project supported by the Trump family, earned hundreds of millions of dollars through unreported sales of its WLFI token. This has sparked new questions about how open and honest the project has been.

Following two fundraising efforts that raised $550 million from October 2024 to January 2025, the project sold another 5.9 billion WLFI tokens to investors who meet specific financial requirements.

The company secretly raised a substantial amount of money – likely hundreds of millions of dollars – and a large part of it went to groups connected to the company’s founders. Although the exact amount isn’t known, these recent sales likely brought in around $295 million, judging by the price of tokens in their last funding round (five cents each).

Tokenomist.ai, an intelligence platform, investigated World Liberty’s financial records at Bloomberg’s request and found unusual token sales. The platform discovered that the number of tokens set aside for the founder, team members, advisors, and partners had quietly increased without a clear reason. This change wasn’t shared with most of the project’s investors.

World Liberty Financial verified the sales to Bloomberg, describing them as exclusive deals with private individuals. However, the company did not reveal who the buyers were or who ultimately received the funds from these sales.

According to project documents, 75% of the money raised from the WLFI token sale goes to DT Marks DEFI LLC, a company linked to former US President Donald Trump and his family, who currently hold 22.5 billion WLFI tokens. Earlier estimates suggest the Trump family earned around $390 million from the two public fundraising events.

WLFI Slides To Record Lows As Concerns Mount

Recent revelations of hidden sales are raising more questions about the Trump family’s cryptocurrency venture, which investors have been closely watching for the past month. Last week, the disagreement between Tron founder Justin Sun and World Liberty Financial turned into a formal legal fight.

According to Bitcoinist, Sun, a major investor in WLFI, has accused the crypto venture—which is supported by Donald Trump—of unfair practices. He claims the team blocked his access to his tokens using a built-in feature, stripped him of his ability to vote on project decisions, and even threatened to destroy his investment without a valid reason.

According to the document, Sun invested $45 million in 3 billion WLFI tokens and earned another billion as an advisor, giving him a total of around 4 billion tokens. He also stated that World Liberty Financial privately accused him of causing the WLFI token’s 40% price drop when it launched, which resulted in his address being blacklisted in September 2025.

Sun recently criticized a proposed change to how the project is managed, calling it problematic. The proposal would require early investors to hold onto their tokens for at least two more years before they could start gradually receiving them. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Sun strongly disapproved, labeling the project a “World Tyranny” and arguing the proposal forces investors to accept new terms or risk losing access to their tokens permanently.

As an analyst, I’ve been following the recent criticism surrounding the project. A key concern is that they deposited 5 billion of their own WLFI tokens into the Dolomite lending platform and then borrowed approximately $75 million in stablecoins using those tokens as collateral. This practice has drawn negative attention and is a point of contention for many observers.

WLFI has been facing difficulties lately, and its price dropped to a record low of $0.054 on Friday. This is a significant decrease of 83% from its peak price of $0.33 reached on September 1, 2025, causing losses for many who invested in it.

According to Cornell University professor Eswar Prasad, it’s strange that the Trump family is benefiting from this financial deal, especially considering the obvious conflicts of interest, and that they’re preventing other investors from also profiting, he told Bloomberg.

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2026-05-02 11:57