{"id":584327,"date":"2026-04-16T06:52:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T06:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/trumps-world-liberty-under-fire-for-absurd-token-unlock-plan\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T06:52:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T06:52:41","slug":"trumps-world-liberty-under-fire-for-absurd-token-unlock-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/trumps-world-liberty-under-fire-for-absurd-token-unlock-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s World Liberty under fire for \u2018absurd\u2019 token unlock plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjYtMDQvMDE5ZDk0N2EtOWQ0MS03MDJlLWFkZjAtNjA4OGNlZThiN2Q0LmpwZw==.jpg\" alt=\"Trump\u2019s World Liberty under fire for \u2018absurd\u2019 token unlock plan\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Major World Liberty Financial investor Justin Sun called a plan to lock tokens for up to four years \u201cthe most absurd governance scams I have ever seen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Trump family\u2019s crypto platform, World Liberty Financial, is facing backlash over a new proposal to lock up tokens purchased by early investors for up to four years, or in some cases, indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p>World Liberty <a title=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/wlfi-unlock-proposal-62b-tokens-vesting-burn\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/wlfi-unlock-proposal-62b-tokens-vesting-burn\">posted the proposal<\/a> to its governance forum on Wednesday, which outlined that early investors would have their World Liberty Financial (WLFI) tokens locked for a further two years before their tokens would be released in batches over the following two years.<\/p>\n<p>According to the proposal, tokenholders who do not accept the new unlock schedule would \u201ccontinue to have their tokens locked indefinitely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/trump-world-liberty-under-fire-token-unlock-plan\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major World Liberty Financial investor Justin Sun called a plan to lock tokens for up to four years \u201cthe most absurd governance scams I have ever seen.\u201d The Trump family\u2019s crypto platform, World Liberty Financial, is facing backlash over a new proposal to lock up tokens purchased by early investors for up to four years, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":584328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-584327","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\/584327","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=584327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}