Crypto: World Liberty investors criticize governance deemed unfair

65%, this is the fall 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 beside itself. Justin Sun speaks of “tyranny”.

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

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

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

• a 2-year cliff without any unlocking;
• followed by 2 years of linear vesting.

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

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

The reaction on the governance forum was immediate. For example, one user wrote:

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

Another responded simply:

There is no democracy. The system is a joke.

Decryption: the trust of World Liberty crypto investors is eroded.

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 committed $75 million to the crypto project. He published a long statement about April 15, 2026:

Sun even goes so far as to accuse World Liberty of having integrated a secret backdoor in the smart contracts of the WLFI tokenthus allowing funds to be frozen at will. It also raises a central paradox: holders of large quantities of WLFI (like himself) are excluded from voting on the proposal that directly concerns them. Worse, those who refuse vesting calendar find themselves in an untenable situation: their digital assets remain blocked indefinitely.

According to Sun, the governance vote would therefore be an illusion:

The proposition is a no-choice. Accept vesting or your tokens will remain locked forever.

The context only makes the situation worse. The previous week, the World Liberty Financial team had indeed borrowed $75 million in stablecoins via 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 Trump-linked platform can treat governance this way, what signal does that send about their trustworthiness. Still, this crypto news from April 15, 2026 reminds us that in DeFi, governance can be as opaque as in traditional finance.