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Tron’s Justin Sun sues Trump-linked World Liberty Financial over frozen assets
World Liberty unfairly froze Sun’s $WLFI tokens and threatened him, the lawsuit alleged.
Apr 22, 2026, 5:20 a.m.
What to know:
- Justin Sun, creator of the Tron blockchain, has sued World Liberty Financial, a Trump family–backed crypto and stablecoin project, alleging it unlawfully locked up his $WLFI tokens and defrauded him about their rights and value.
- The lawsuit claims Sun invested $45 million in $WLFI in 2024 based partly on the Trump family’s association with the project, and that World Liberty later became hostile when he refused to keep investing or mint its USD1 stablecoin on their terms.
- Sun further alleges World Liberty centralized control over tokens, threatened to burn his holdings and report him to U.S. authorities over purported KYC issues, while some details of the dispute remain under seal due to confidentiality provisions.
“At that pivotal time for World Liberty, Mr. Sun invested $45 million to purchase $WLFI tokens from World Liberty not only because of the project’s claims that it would promote adoption of decentralized finance — an issue Mr. Sun cares deeply about and to which he has devoted much of his life’s work — but also because of theTrump family’s association with the project,” the suit said.
World Liberty asked Sun to continue investing through 2025, including through a request to mint World Liberty’s USD1 stablecoin, the filing said. “By July 2025, when it became clear that Mr. Sun would not invest or mint USD1 on their terms, World Liberty principals became hostile toward Mr. Sun.”
