{"id":16787,"date":"2026-04-13T13:06:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=16787"},"modified":"2026-04-13T13:13:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:13:16","slug":"justin-sun-says-trumps-defi-project-built-a-secret-backdoor-to-freeze-investor-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2026\/04\/13\/justin-sun-says-trumps-defi-project-built-a-secret-backdoor-to-freeze-investor-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Sun Says Trump\u2019s DeFi Project Built a Secret Backdoor to Freeze Investor Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I wouldn’t touch anything crypto that Trump was supporting or lending his name to, as it will crash as the hype subsides. It would also seem Trump aligned his name with a disreputable group with poor customer service. And really, Trump is not really a friend to crypto as he is aligned with the old guard TradFi bankers. And Justin Sun is a behind Tron which is a settlement layer for Tether stablecoin, with billions held on his network. And Justin was mentored by Jack Ma if memory serves, and no small player in cryptocurrencies. And it goes to show that you don’t put large holdings in cryptocurrency networks that aren’t distributed, as centrally controlled networks can lock or steal your funds. Even a problem with Tether stablecoins where funds are getting locked. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By JP Alegre <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Justin Sun, the founder of the TRON<\/em><\/strong> blockchain and World Liberty Financial<\/em><\/strong>\u2018s single largest investor, turned publicly against the Trump-backed DeFi project on Sunday, accusing it of embedding a hidden backdoor in its token contract that allows the team to freeze, restrict, and effectively seize investor funds without notice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sun, who has poured roughly $175 million into Trump-linked crypto ventures<\/a>, posted a lengthy statement on X calling WLFI \u201ca trap door marketed as an open door\u201d and demanding the immediate release of approximately 545 million WLFI tokens frozen in his wallet since September 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WLFI\u2019s official account responded within hours: \u201cSee you in court pal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I have always been an ardent supporter of President Trump and his crypto friendly policy.

As an early supporter who invested heavily in World Liberty Financial, I did so because I believed in the vision that was presented to the public: a decentralized finance platform that\u2026\u2014 H.E. Justin Sun \ud83d\udc68\u200d\ud83d\ude80 \ud83c\udf1e (@justinsuntron) April 12, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Sun alleged that World Liberty Financial secretly embedded a blacklisting function in the smart contract used to deploy WLFI tokens \u2014 a function that gives the company unilateral power to freeze any token holder\u2019s assets without cause or recourse. \u201cWhat was never disclosed to me or to any investor is that World Liberty embedded a backdoor blacklisting function in the smart contract used to deploy WLFI tokens,\u201d Sun wrote. \u201cThis is the opposite of decentralization.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He accused WLFI of extracting fees from users, treating the crypto community as \u201ca personal ATM,\u201d and staging governance votes with predetermined outcomes. \u201cThese votes do not represent the will of the community \u2014 they represent the will of those who designed them,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sun described himself as \u201cthe first and single largest victim\u201d of the blacklisting, pointing to September 2025, when WLFI froze his wallet<\/a> after he moved roughly $9 million in WLFI tokens to exchanges. WLFI claimed the transfers were part of a broader security response affecting 272 wallets linked to a phishing incident. Sun called the transfers routine \u201cexchange deposit tests.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The freeze has cost him dearly. His locked stake, once worth approximately $107 million, has dropped to under $50 million \u2014 a paper loss of roughly $70 million \u2014 as WLFI\u2019s token has shed 76% from its all-time high and now trades near $0.079<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sun\u2019s public break came days after WLFI deposited five billion of its own governance tokens as collateral on Dolomite, a DeFi lending platform, and borrowed approximately $75 million in stablecoins \u2014 sending $40 million of those funds to Coinbase Prime. The deposit briefly maxed out a key lending pool, temporarily locking ordinary depositors out of their own funds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dolomite\u2019s co-founder, Corey Caplan<\/a>, also serves as an advisor to WLFI \u2014 a dual role on-chain analysts flagged as a conflict of interest. To accommodate WLFI\u2019s deposit, Dolomite raised its WLFI token supply cap to 5.1 billion tokens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WLFI\u2019s official account accused Sun of \u201cplaying the victim while making baseless allegations to cover up his own misconduct,\u201d claiming it has \u201cthe contracts,\u201d \u201cthe evidence,\u201d and \u201cthe truth.\u201d It did not address the backdoor allegation directly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sun responded by demanding that those behind the account identify themselves publicly. \u201cAs the largest investor in this project, I demand that those responsible come forward by name, instead of hiding in the shadows,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Whoever is hiding behind this official account, step forward and identify yourself. Every action taken by the WLFI team to secretly implant backdoor controls over user assets, to freeze investor funds without disclosure or due process, and to treat the crypto community as a\u2026 https:\/\/t.co\/NkxYv20eVj<\/a>\u2014 H.E. Justin Sun \ud83d\udc68\u200d\ud83d\ude80 \ud83c\udf1e (@justinsuntron) April 12, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Sun was careful throughout to separate his attack from Trump himself, opening his statement by reaffirming that he remains \u201can ardent supporter of President Trump and his crypto-friendly policy.\u201d The criticism, he stressed, is directed at \u201cthe bad actors at WLFI.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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TLDR; \u201cI\u2019ve always been a supporter of Trump, because he has allowed me to get away with scamming people in the past. But now that Trump is scamming me, I have some concerns..\u201d\u2014 Anorak (@Anorak_0x) April 12, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wouldn’t touch anything crypto that Trump was supporting or lending his name to, as it will crash as the hype subsides. It would also seem Trump aligned his name with a disreputable group with poor customer service. And really, Trump is not really a friend to crypto as he is aligned with the old […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16787"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16792,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16787\/revisions\/16792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}