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Justin Sun and World Liberty Financial Trade Blows in Escalating Public Feud

April 12, 2026
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Justin Sun and World Liberty Financial Trade Blows in Escalating Public Feud

The long-simmering conflict between TRON founder Justin Sun and World Liberty Financial (WLFI) erupted into an all-out public war on Sunday, with both sides hurling accusations on X.

Sun, who invested $75 million in the DeFi venture affiliated with the Trump family, published a lengthy statement accusing WLFI of embedding a hidden blacklisting function in the WLFI token smart contract, a mechanism he said gives the project "unilateral power to freeze, restrict, and effectively confiscate the property rights of any token holder, without notice, without cause, and without recourse."

"This is a trap door marketed as an open door," Sun wrote.

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