
{"id":168920,"date":"2026-05-21T19:51:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T19:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=168920"},"modified":"2026-05-21T19:51:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T19:51:47","slug":"wlfi-holders-dump-1-8b-tokens-in-record-profit-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=168920","title":{"rendered":"WLFI Holders Dump 1.8B Tokens in Record Profit Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World Liberty Financial\u2019s WLFI token recently hit a huge milestone after it recorded its highest-ever realized profit event.<\/p>\n<p>According to on-chain analytics firm Santiment, 1.8 billion of the Trump-linked tokens were sold at a profit on May 18, with the spike coming only weeks after WLFI hit an all-time low.<\/p>\n<h2>WLFI Holders Cash Out After Binance-Linked Catalyst<\/h2>\n<p>Alongside the record realized profit, Santiment <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SantimentData\/status\/2057221643429363882?s=20\">noted<\/a> that a metric that tracks tokens moving on-chain multiplied by their level of dormancy, known as \u201cage consumed,\u201d had also hit an all-time high of 17.4 trillion, indicating unprecedented movement of long-dormant supply.<\/p>\n<p>It tied the activity to Binance launching a USD1\/BTC trading pair that allowed traders to use WLFI\u2019s USD1 stablecoin as collateral for Bitcoin futures for the first time.\u00a0The analytics firm said the listing created a rare exit opportunity for long-term holders after WLFI spent months sliding lower.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a major, well-publicized event that gave long-time holders a high-profile moment to finally cash out,\u201d it wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Even after the recent bounce, the token is still down more than 80% from its September 2025 all-time high near $0.33, with the situation having been made worse late last month after WLFI <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/world-liberty-financial-wlfi-plunges-to-new-atl-has-trumps-family-ruined-crypto\/\">crashed<\/a> to an all-time low near $0.05.<\/p>\n<p>Per Santiment, that drop was caused by \u201cgovernance drama, a controversial token unlock proposal involving 62 billion tokens, and several reports about secret token sales benefiting insiders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The unlock proposal in particular drew intense scrutiny from holders and even led to a public dispute with Tron\u2019s Justin Sun, one of the biggest investors in World Liberty, who called it \u201cone of the most absurd governance scams\u201d he had ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>He then <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/justin-sun-sues-trump-linked-world-liberty-financial-over-frozen-wlfi-tokens\/\">filed<\/a> a lawsuit against the project in a California federal court, which WLFI <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wlfi-lawsuit-sparks-response-justin-sun-calls-it-meritless\/\">countered<\/a> with a suit of its own, accusing Sun of running \u201ca coordinated media smear campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Where WLFI Stands Now<\/h2>\n<p>Apart from unlocking dormant selling, the Binance listing event appears to have also coincided with a wave of other on-chain activity, including several huge USD1 burn transactions linked to World Liberty, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CryptoNotaz\/status\/2056906415319433447?s=20\">flagged<\/a> by crypto analyst CryptoNotaz.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, at the time of writing, WLFI was trading around $0.061, which is a nearly 12% dip over the past seven days and 22% in the last month.<\/p>\n<p>Its market cap is sitting at about $1.9 billion against a fully diluted valuation near $6.1 billion, with only around 31.8 billion of the 100 billion total supply currently in circulation.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at open interest, WLFI futures stand at $181.7 million according to CoinGlass. About $226,000 worth was liquidated over the past 24 hours, with slightly over $133,000 of that being long positions.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wlfi-holders-dump-1-8b-tokens-in-record-profit-event\/\">WLFI Holders Dump 1.8B Tokens in Record Profit Event<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/\">CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Liberty Financial\u2019s WLFI token recently hit a huge milestone after it recorded its highest-ever realized profit event. According to on-chain analytics firm Santiment, 1.8 billion of the Trump-linked tokens were sold at a profit on May 18, with the spike coming only weeks after WLFI hit an all-time low. WLFI Holders Cash Out After [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}