Trump-Backed World Liberty Team Proposes Aggressive Buyback-and-Burn Strategy Amid WLFI Plunge

World Liberty Financial's token tanks as Trump-linked team scrambles with radical tokenomics maneuver.

The Burn Gambit

Team announces massive buyback program to pull WLFI off exchanges and send it straight to the burner address. No gentle deflation here—this is token destruction at scale.

Market Mechanics Exposed

WLFI's price chart looks like a cliff dive. Traditional recovery methods got tossed. Now they're playing with fire—literally burning tokens to create artificial scarcity.

Because nothing says 'liberty' like centrally-planned token burns while retail bags get heavier. Welcome to crypto governance, where the solution to every problem is literally setting money on fire.

WLFI's Deflationary Narrative

For WLFI’s backers, the burn proposal aims to shift the narrative from one of oversupply to one of engineered scarcity. More trading activity would mean more fees, which in turn would result in more WLFI being removed from circulation.

At the same time, another governance proposal is making the rounds, this time from the community rather than the team, that would see 80% of WLFI tokens still locked and automatically staked into pools, with rewards drawn from the 20% community reserve.

Supporters argue that it would convert idle supply into productive assets and reduce selling pressure, but critics warn that it amounts to redistribution rather than genuine yield generation.

The plan is still being debated on the forum and has not gained traction compared with the official burn proposal.

Despite the market headwinds and criticism from some token holders on the forum, WLFI’s camp is not without high-profile allies: TRON founder Justin Sun continues to endorse the project on X, calling it “one of the biggest and most important projects in crypto” and pledging not to sell his unlocked tokens.

Data from Arkham shows that WLFI's treasury holds $13.78 million in TRX, while SUN holds approximately $693 million of WLFI's token, much of it tied up in vesting arrangements that reinforce his long-term stake in the project.