Tron founder, HTX advisor, and early World Liberty Financial investor Justin Sun protested his innocence to the Trump family-backed DeFi project early Friday, requesting that it release his WLFI tokens following a blacklisting of his address on Thursday.
Sun argued his WLFI were "unreasonably frozen," insisting he purchased them like any other investor and deserves the same rights to what he called the "sacred and inviolable" tokens, part of what makes blockchain "stronger and more fair than traditional finance."
"I call on the team to respect these principles, unlock my tokens, and let's move forward together toward the success of World Liberty Financial," Sun said, warning unilateral freezes risk undermining trust in the project’s fairness and transparency.
Responding to Nansen CEO Alex Svanevik's post on the situation, Sun declared, "I am innocent."
World Liberty Financial has yet to publicly comment on the blacklisting. However, it came within hours of the Justin Sun-labeled wallet sending 50 million WLFI, worth around $9 million, to an address linked to an HTX hot wallet.
Onchain data showed HTX had also transferred millions of WLFI tokens to a Binance deposit address over the last couple of days amid accusations of selling.
This came during a period of substantial exchange deposit flow more generally, with the volume spike creating extreme selling pressure.
World Liberty Financial's native token started trading on crypto exchanges earlier this week, plunging by around 24% at one point on Thursday, though the majority of that move was ahead of Sun's transfer.
Sun has been one of the biggest supporters of both WLFI and Trump's memecoin, while World Liberty Financial has also bought millions of dollars' worth of Tron's TRX token.$TRX
