Crypto: World Liberty Investors Criticize Governance Deemed Unfair

65%, that is the drop of the WLFI token since September 2025. And now, World Liberty Financial announces that crypto investors will not be able to recover their funds before 2030. The community is outraged. Justin Sun, for his part, speaks of “tyranny.”

Crypto and WLFI: when Trump imposes 4 years of waiting on his own investors

Since October 2024, the early supporters of World Liberty Financial (launched in September) have been waiting. They had indeed invested during the public presale, buying WLFI tokens between $0.015 and $0.05 each. The reason is simple: they hoped for a quick return. They had raised a total of 550 million dollars for the crypto project linked to Trump.

On April 15, 2026, about 550 days later, the answer came. The crypto project published on its decentralized governance forum a proposal imposing a vesting in two phases:

• a cliff of 2 years without any unlock;
• followed by 2 years of linear vesting.

Result: the 17.04 billion WLFI of the supporters will only be accessible in 2030 at the earliest.

For founders, the team, and advisors, the schedule is even stricter. The 45.24 billion WLFI allocated to them will be subject to a 5-year vesting. In exchange, 4.52 billion tokens will be permanently burned as soon as the proposal passes (which is 10% of their allocation). The proposal describes this crypto burn as “an on-chain conviction signal.”

The reaction on the governance forum was immediate. One user, for example, wrote:

WTF. So after a full three years, we finally receive our next token unlock.

Another simply replied:

There is no democracy. The system is a joke.

Analysis: the trust of World Liberty crypto investors is eroding.

Why does Justin Sun’s revolt threaten Trump’s crypto credibility?

For his part, Justin Sun does not mince his words. The founder of Tron has invested 75 million dollars in the crypto project. He published a long statement on X on April 15, 2026:

Sun even goes as far as accusing World Liberty of having integrated a secret backdoor into the WLFI token smart contracts, thereby allowing the freezing of funds at will. He also raises a central paradox: holders of large amounts of WLFI (like himself) are excluded from voting on the proposal that directly concerns them. Worse, those who reject the vesting schedule find themselves in an untenable situation: their digital assets remain locked indefinitely.

According to Sun, the governance vote is thus a sham:

The proposal is a no-choice. Accept the vesting or your tokens remain locked forever.

The context only worsens the situation. The previous week, the World Liberty Financial team had indeed borrowed 75 million dollars in stablecoins through Dolomite using 5 billion WLFI as collateral. This is a DeFi protocol co-founded by an advisor to the project. Sun then accused the team of using crypto investors as their “personal ATM.”

For crypto investors, the question is straightforward: if a platform linked to Trump can treat governance this way, what signal does it send about their reliability. In any case, this crypto news of April 15, 2026, reminds us that in DeFi, governance can be as opaque as in traditional finance.