{"id":6896,"date":"2025-09-02T18:13:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T18:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coinsvalue.net\/blog\/wlfi-slides-15-after-launch-as-trump-token-team-eyes-burn-strategy\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T18:13:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T18:13:03","slug":"wlfi-slides-15-after-launch-as-trump-token-team-eyes-burn-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coinsvalue.net\/blog\/wlfi-slides-15-after-launch-as-trump-token-team-eyes-burn-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"WLFI Slides 15% After Launch As Trump Token Team Eyes Burn Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"

World Liberty Financial\u2019s Trump-linked WLFI token plunged in price after a high-profile debut, prompting its backers to propose an aggressive buyback-and-burn plan to steady the market.<\/p>\n

According to trading data<\/a> and market reports, the token briefly traded above $0.30 at launch before falling as much as 15%\u201330% and settling around $0.21\u2013$0.24 in the hours that followed.<\/p>\n

Early Volatility And What Hit The Market<\/h2>\n

Based on reports<\/a>, the sharp drop followed a large token unlock that added roughly 25 billion WLFI to circulating supply, a move that instantly inflated the paper value of the Trump family\u2019s holdings.<\/p>\n

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That unlock pushed the family\u2019s stake into the billions<\/a> on paper\u2014various outlets put the tally near $5 billion to $6+ billion depending on the price used.<\/p>\n

Trading venues including Binance, OKX and Bybit handled early volume, and roughly $1 billion changed hands in the first hour on some platforms, according to coverage of the debut.<\/p>\n

Reports say early investors were allowed to sell a portion of their holdings, which likely amplified selling pressure as markets digested the newly tradable tokens.<\/p>\n

Proposal To Use Fees For Buybacks<\/h2>\n

In response, World Liberty Financial\u2019s community and team floated a buyback-and-burn program<\/a> that would route 100% of protocol-owned liquidity (POL) fees from chains such as Ethereum, BNB Chain and Solana toward repurchasing WLFI on open markets and permanently burning those tokens.<\/p>\n

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The aim, according to proponents, is to reduce circulating supply and support longer-term holders. Critics warn that burns funded by fees may take years to materially reduce the massive unlocked supply.<\/p>\n

Analysts and commentators pointed out a mismatch between headline valuations and the practical reality of supply dynamics. Depending on which price is used, WLFI\u2019s market cap was reported across a wide band\u2014some outlets published peak valuations in the billions, even as price swings kept the effective market cap volatile throughout the day.<\/p>\n

Political Ties And Regulatory Questions<\/p>\n

Reports disclose that the project\u2019s ties to US President Donald Trump and his family have drawn extra scrutiny.<\/p>\n

Observers say that when political figures hold large token positions, questions about conflicts of interest<\/a> and regulatory oversight tend to rise faster than normal market noise.<\/p>\n

World Liberty insists the project is a private venture with governance rules, but regulators and critics have said they will be watching closely.<\/p>\n

Market participants are now watching vote outcomes and governance updates closely. If the fee-to-burn plan is approved and implemented, it will be measured by how much protocol revenue it can divert into buybacks and how quickly those repurchases can reduce supply.<\/p>\n

Featured image from Meta, chart from TradingView<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

World Liberty Financial\u2019s Trump-linked WLFI token plunged in price after a high-profile debut, prompting its backers to propose an aggressive buyback-and-burn plan to steady the market. According to trading data and market reports, the token briefly traded above $0.30 at launch before falling as much as 15%\u201330% and settling around $0.21\u2013$0.24 in the hours that…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1218],"tags":[34,56,36,37,294,473],"class_list":["post-6896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crypto","tag-altcoins","tag-bitcoin","tag-crypto","tag-meme-coins","tag-trump","tag-wlfi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinsvalue.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinsvalue.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinsvalue.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinsvalue.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinsvalue.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coinsvalue.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinsvalue.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinsvalue.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinsvalue.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinsvalue.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}