World Liberty Financial AI
$674,000,000.00
IN ESTIMATED LOSSES. WALLETS FROZEN. ZERO RESTITUTION.

They built the lock.
We're building
the way out.

World Liberty Financial promised tokenized finance and shipped a contract that could freeze you out of your own money. It did. 272 times. Then the price fell 83% while the allocations that mattered stayed locked.

WLAI is the same premise with the trapdoor removed. No blacklist function. No pause. No compliance queue between you and your balance. Built on The Robinhood Chain and launched by The Uniswap Pools Platform. Every buy is donated to pay back 1% of its dollar value of investor losses — 0.75% is returned to the people who invested, 0.25% goes back to the WFAI team to fund the operations and other costs — Everything is verified on the blockchain.

Check eligibility
−83%
WLFI PEAK→JUL 2026
272
WALLETS BLACKLISTED
$22.1M
BURNED & REISSUED
80%
STILL LOCKED
$WLAI · ROBINHOOD CHAIN
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NetworkRobinhood Chain
SettlementEthereum L1
Payout assetETH
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Buy clip1%
To the people0.75%
Operations0.25%

$WLAI is not an investment. Distributions are executed by an automated off-chain engine and published to a public monitor — deliberately not enforced by the token contract, and not guaranteed. Read the disclosure at the foot of this page before acquiring anything.

01 · PRESS KIT

For journalists.

Every factual claim on this site is listed below with its primary source. Nothing here is an allegation of criminal conduct against any person or entity.

Download evidence pack (.zip)
272 wallets blacklisted; Sun freeze; "who's next" reactionCoinDesk
Sun transfer timing vs. crash (Nansen on-chain data)CoinCentral
Lockbox connection failures for KYC'd holdersCCN
$22.14M burn and reissue, 19 Nov 2025crypto.news
−83% from peak; $674M estimated investor lossesBitcoin Foundation
Hut 8 purchase of 100M locked WLFI for $25MArkham
99.94% governance vote; 20% unlock structureWLFI docs
Robinhood Chain mainnet, USDG, Arbitrum stackRobinhood
02 · THE RECORD

What actually
happened.

Every claim below is dated and sourced. We are not asking you to take our word for anything — that is the entire point of this project.

2024 — 2025 · THE SALE

Sold as a governance token that legally could not be sold

WLFI launched as a non-transferable governance asset. The project's Gold Paper stated that tokens could not be traded on exchanges or transferred to third parties without a successful governance vote. Buyers in the $0.015 and $0.05 rounds were the designated "early supporters."

9 JULY 2025 · THE VOTE

99.94% voted to unlock. They unlocked 20%.

A proposal to enable on-chain transfers passed the WLF governance platform with 99.94% of participating tokens in favour. What shipped on 1 September 2025 was a 20% unlock. The other 80% stayed locked, contingent on further proposals.

27 AUG 2025 · THE LOCKOUT

KYC'd holders could not connect to their own tokens

Users who had completed KYC and held tokens on-chain reported being unable to connect or activate the Lockbox. WLFI acknowledged it, saying some wallets were still under review and that its compliance team was continuing to unlock accounts.

"We hear your concerns. Some of you may not yet be able to connect your wallet. Our compliance team is continuing to review and unlock additional wallets." — WLFI, 27 Aug 2025
SOURCE: CCN
5 SEPT 2025 · THE BLACKLIST

272 wallets frozen by a contract that was sold as decentralised

WLFI confirmed 272 wallets were blacklisted — roughly 215 tied to a phishing attack, around 50 self-reported as compromised through support. The team's position: "We do not seek to blacklist anyone. We respond when alerted to malicious or high-risk activity." Critics argued the ability to freeze assets at all contradicted the project's decentralisation claims.

4—5 SEPT 2025 · THE $75M INVESTOR

They froze their largest backer — and the on-chain data didn't support it

Justin Sun, who had put $75M into the project, had his address frozen after a $9.2M transfer. Nansen data showed the transfer occurred three to five hours after the steepest decline, not before it, and that none of the transfers were sales to external parties. By December 2025 his tokens were still inaccessible and had fallen roughly $60M in value. Insiders quoted at the time: "If they can do it to Sun, who's next?"

19 NOV 2025 · THE REWRITE

$22.1M burned out of user wallets and reissued elsewhere

WLFI executed an emergency function burning approximately 166.667 million WLFI — around $22.14M — from compromised wallets, then issued the same amount to KYC-verified recovery addresses. The stated intent was restitution for phishing victims. The demonstrated capability was that the issuer can delete and recreate balances at will.

31 JULY 2026 · THE BILL

$674 million, and the people who paid it are still holding

WLFI peaked around $0.331 in September 2025 and traded near $0.055 by 31 July 2026 — roughly 83% below peak. Public estimates put investor losses, realised and unrealised, at $674 million. Much of the early-investor allocation remains locked, so exits have been infrequent and the true damage is hard to assess.

ONGOING · THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BOOK

Locked tokens were sellable — if you were the right party

While retail allocations sat locked, the World Liberty Financial team sold 100 million locked WLFI tokens to bitcoin mining firm Hut 8 for $25 million. Retail could not move. The treasury could.

03 · ELIGIBILITY

Are you Eligible?

The live list is on The Record. If your address isn't on it, you can message us on X.

04 · THE 0.75%

0.75%
of volume, back
to the people.

1% of every $WLAI buy is converted to ETH. 0.75% is kept as ETH and sent back to the people. The other 0.25% covers operations and other costs. You receive ETH.

01

Volume is measured

Seven days of $WLAI volume on the published Robinhood Chain pools, read from on-chain swap events. The block range is stated in the weekly post.

02

1% is clipped — 0.75% is held as ETH

Each buy is clipped 1%. 0.75% stays as ETH until distribution day, then is sent directly to eligible wallets. 0.25% stays for operations.

03

It streams to eligible wallets

Pro-rata across Pool A and Pool B. Straight to the address — no claim page, no signature, no agreement to accept, nothing you can be locked out of.

04

The engine shows its work

No human presses go, and nothing happens off the record. Each cycle publishes its inputs, maths, recipient set and transaction hashes — so a missed or altered run is visible to everyone at the same moment.

WHY THE ENGINE RUNS OFF-CHAIN — AND WHY THAT IS THE POINT

A smart contract is set in stone. That is exactly the property you want governing a token's transfer rules — it is why $WLAI has no blacklist, no pause and no upgrade path. It is exactly the wrong property for restitution.

People lost money in too many different ways to encode once and freeze forever: wallets blacklisted, balances burned and reissued, allocations stranded behind a compliance queue, open-market buyers filled at the top. A contract deployed today cannot learn a category discovered tomorrow, cannot let a holder identify themselves as the owner of a wallet they've lost access to, and cannot be corrected if the eligibility list turns out to be wrong. We could cover most cases in bytecode. We could not cover all of them — and the ones it would miss are the people hurt worst.

So we split the system deliberately. The token contract is immutable and holds no power over you. Eligibility and distribution run in an automated off-chain engine that executes weekly on a schedule with no human approval step — and publishes every input, every calculation and every transaction to a public real-time monitor as it happens.

The honest trade-off: off-chain means you are trusting a monitored process rather than bytecode. We are not asking you to take that on faith — we are making the process watchable while it runs. Flexibility where people need it, immutability where power would otherwise sit.

05 · THE TRANSACTION

How can we afford it?

Every $WLAI buy is converted 1%. That cut is how the 0.75% exists. Nothing else funds it.

1%taken on every buy
0.75%held and paid as ETH
0.25%operations and other costs
06 · WHY ROBINHOOD CHAIN

Tokenisation's
natural home.

If the argument is that tokenisation deserves better than what WLFI did to it, the right place to make that argument is the chain a 28-million-customer regulated brokerage built for real-world assets — not another anonymous fork.

Robinhood Chain is a permissionless Ethereum L2 built on the Arbitrum stack, designed for tokenised real-world assets. Public mainnet went live 1 July 2026 with 100ms block times, settling to Ethereum, with Uniswap and Chainlink integrated from day one.

SOURCE: Robinhood newsroom · CoinDesk
07 · TOKEN

$WLAI on Robinhood Chain.

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NetworkRobinhood Chain
SettlementEthereum L1
Payout assetETH
Blacklist fnnone
Pause fnnone
Buy clip1%
To the people0.75%
Operations0.25%

$WLAI is not an investment. Distributions are executed by an automated off-chain engine and published to a public monitor — deliberately not enforced by the token contract, and not guaranteed.

IMPORTANT — READ IN FULL

This is not an investment, and we are not offering you one.

$WLAI is a token with no claim on any company, no share of profits, no dividend, and no redemption right. The 0.75% distribution described on this page is funded by a 1% clip on every buy (0.25% operations). It is executed by an automated off-chain process operated by this project and reported to a public monitor. It is deliberately not enforced by the token contract, so that eligibility can adapt to loss types that immutable code cannot cover. That flexibility cuts both ways: the distribution is not contractually guaranteed, and it can be changed or stopped. In some jurisdictions a distribution framed as a share of revenue may be treated as a security — we are not lawyers and this page is not legal advice. Seek your own.

Nothing here is financial advice. You may lose everything you put into this token. Do not spend money you cannot afford to lose — the people documented on this page did.

On World Liberty Financial.

World Liberty Financial AI is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by or connected to World Liberty Financial Inc., DT Marks DeFi LLC, the Trump Organization, Robinhood Markets Inc., or any of their affiliates. "World Liberty Financial", "WLFI", "Robinhood", "Robinhood Chain" and "USDG" are the marks of their respective owners, used here for identification and commentary only.

Statements about WLFI on this page are drawn from dated public reporting and WLFI's own published statements, each linked at the point of claim. Characterisations and criticism are opinion, clearly presented as such. If you believe anything here is factually wrong, contact us with the correction and the evidence and we will amend it in public.