World Liberty Fi blackliste deux portefeuilles liés à Justin Sun - une décision qui secoue l’écosystème crypto
L'écosystème DeFi vient de vivre un moment décisif : World Liberty Fi a officiellement blacklisté deux portefeuilles associés à Justin Sun.
Les implications réglementaires
Cette décision intervient dans un contexte de durcissement des contrôles réglementaires mondiaux. Les plateformes renforcent leur compliance face aux pressions des autorités financières.
Impact sur le marché
Les transactions impliquant ces adresses sont désormais bloquées - un mouvement qui montre la volonté croissante des protocoles DeFi de s'auto-réguler avant que les régulateurs traditionnels ne s'en chargent pour eux. Parce que rien ne dit « liberté financière » comme une liste noire centralisée, n'est-ce pas ?
WLFI tokens were frozen in two of Justin Sun’s wallets, locking up $500M of investments. | Source: Etherscan
The blacklisting was seen as a drastic measure, since Sun was among the top project backers and helped close the presale rounds faster with large-scale purchases.
Soon after the blacklisting became public, a wallet identified as HTX48 started sending back WLFI to the token’s contract.
Sun denied the allegations that he has been dumping WLFI through his own exchange. Instead, he stated the token moves were experimental and had to test the exchange infrastructure.
On-chain researchers also discovered attempts to send WLFI to Binance. For now, the token is not even listed on the exchange, but the highly active transfers from wallets connected to Justin Sun further boosted the suspicions of plans to sell.
WLFI kept sliding after the wallet lock
The suspicion against Sun was that on HTX, the token was somehow sold, essentially tanking the market price.
WLFI slid further to $0.18, losing over 40% since its initial post-unlock rally. The token was in price discovery mode, moving from DEX trading to more listings. HTX actually promised to be one of the token’s platforms.
However, HTX volumes were not reported. Most of the WLFI traffic still relied on Bitget and OKX, as well as Mexc and Gate.
World Liberty Fi tried to discourage whales from selling
The start of trading for WLFI did not see any team wallets cashing out. The Trump family DeFi project tried to be more careful in comparison with the handling of meme tokens. This time around, the project tried to discourage whales from cashing out.
WLFI also took another hit from a new reserve wallet that was revealed just during the unlock. A special reserve wallet has been created, which will only be spent based on community voting. World Liberty Fi still aims to discourage selling on the open market, though it cannot prevent some whales from realizing profits.
Based on initial data, 85,000 wallets held WLFI following the presale rounds. Of those wallets, 29% of buyers at the ICO sold completely. Another 10% sold some of their holdings. The remaining 60% of wallets were apparently true believers, still holding onto their WLFI.
Hyperliquid whales signal a bearish outlook for WLFI. 12 out of 19 whales hold short positions, which achieved higher unrealized profits.
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