{"id":544262,"date":"2026-01-20T12:52:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T12:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/20\/wlfi-faces-backlash-after-team-wallets-push-through-usd1-growth-proposal\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T12:52:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T12:52:40","slug":"wlfi-faces-backlash-after-team-wallets-push-through-usd1-growth-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/20\/wlfi-faces-backlash-after-team-wallets-push-through-usd1-growth-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"WLFI faces backlash after \u2018team wallets\u2019 push through USD1 growth proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjYtMDEvMDE5YmRiMTctYzBiMC03ZmJlLTgwNWUtYThhODhhZDJjYjRjLmpwZw==.jpg\" alt=\"WLFI faces backlash after \u2018team wallets\u2019 push through USD1 growth proposal\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The top nine wallets controlled nearly 60% of voting power in WLFI\u2019s USD1 governance vote, raising questions about insider influence as locked holders were unable to participate.<\/p>\n<p data-ct-non-breakable=\"undefined\">World Liberty Financial (WLFI) is facing criticism following a governance vote that approved a USD1 growth proposal, despite objections from the community over the lack of voting access for locked WLFI holders.<\/p>\n<p>Onchain voting data shows that the largest \u201cFOR\u201d votes were cast by top wallets flagged as team-linked or strategic partner addresses, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DefiSquared\/status\/2013475113661079735?s=20\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">according<\/a> to pseudonymous crypto trader and researcher DeFi^2. <\/p>\n<p>The top nine wallets alone <a href=\"https:\/\/vote.worldlibertyfinancial.com\/#\/proposal\/0x4cb62c60be4f0664dc4394f4e2c42f748993b3c3c13d88cfb8ab165ffdedb508\/votes\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">accounted<\/a> for roughly 59% of total voting power, giving a small cluster of large holders effective control over the outcome of the USD1 growth proposal. The largest wallet alone contributed 18.786% of the total voting power based on the snapshot vote for WLFI governance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/wlfi-faces-backlash-usd1-governance-vote-locked-holders\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The top nine wallets controlled nearly 60% of voting power in WLFI\u2019s USD1 governance vote, raising questions about insider influence as locked holders were unable to participate. World Liberty Financial (WLFI) is facing criticism following a governance vote that approved a USD1 growth proposal, despite objections from the community over the lack of voting access [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":544263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-544262","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}