TLDR
- On May 19, six wallets moved WLFI founder tokens into a vesting contract, setting the first clear timeline for potential sales.
- Trump’s allocation of ~14.175 billion WLFI (worth ~$800M) matches one of the wallets in the contract.
- The vesting schedule requires a 10% token burn, a two-year cliff, and a three-year linear unlock — earliest sales possible in May 2028.
- The governance proposal was approved by 11,537 wallets around May 6; participation was voluntary.
- The vesting contract is now the largest single WLFI holder, holding nearly half the total supply.
Trump’s $800 million WLFI token stake now has a formal timeline for becoming sellable, after on-chain data confirmed the tokens entered a vesting contract in May.
LATEST: ⚡ A WLFI position matching Trump’s disclosed holdings, worth roughly $800M, has been moved into a vesting contract that burned 10% of the tokens and blocks sales until May 2028. pic.twitter.com/bkbjuOFhAl
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Blockchain records show that on May 19, six wallets holding World Liberty Financial insider tokens moved 30 billion WLFI into a new vesting contract. Each wallet was required to burn 10% of its tokens upon entry.
The largest wallet deposited 15.75 billion WLFI and retained 14.175 billion after the burn. That amount matches the founder allocation publicly disclosed as President Donald Trump’s stake in World Liberty Financial.
The tokens are still not tradable. The new schedule imposes a two-year cliff, meaning the earliest any tokens can be sold is May 2028, followed by a three-year linear release period.
The vesting contract is now the single largest holder of WLFI, holding 4.61 billion tokens — nearly half of the total supply. Total WLFI supply has dropped from 100 billion to 96.7 billion as a result of the burns.
How the Vesting Plan Was Created
The plan was approved through a governance vote around May 6, with 11,537 wallets voting in support. Founder token holders were given the option to swap an indefinite lockup for the new vesting schedule. Those who chose not to participate remain locked indefinitely.
David Wachsman, a spokesman for World Liberty Financial, confirmed the move. “The community voted in support of a founder burn. Co-founders moved their tokens into a smart contract that would effectuate the burn,” he said, adding that co-founders accepted “the strictest conditions and the longest vesting schedule of all token holders.”
World Liberty Financial also stated that the transfers were not connected to any upcoming token listings or plans to sell.
WLFI and Congressional Ethics Rules
The timing has drawn attention because Congress is currently reviewing the Clarity Act, which would require senior government officials with large crypto holdings to divest or place assets in a qualified blind trust. Trump has reportedly agreed to the provision.
However, the wallets entered the vesting contract months before the latest version of the Clarity Act was drafted, and World Liberty published the vesting mechanism’s terms before the wallets actually entered the schedule.
According to Trump’s 2025 financial disclosure, his crypto-related income included roughly $515 million from WLFI token sales made by World Liberty Financial to outside investors.
The Clarity Act has not yet become law and still requires 60 Senate votes to advance.
WLFI is currently trading at $0.0569, down 1.72% on the day.
