2026-01-21 05:21:28

A seemingly democratic vote ultimately turns into a transfer of interests?

World Liberty Fi (WLFI) has recently caused a stir in the crypto community. This project with a Trump family background submitted a proposal at the end of 2025 to allocate 5% of the unlocked treasury holdings to promote USD1 growth. The proposal was initially rejected by the majority during the voting, but the team and partners forcibly reversed the outcome.

How was it reversed? The data speaks for itself. Crypto KOL DeFi^2 analyzed the Bubble Maps data—most of the top voting wallets pointed to the team or strategic partners. In other words, this was a show of manipulation.

Here’s a more shocking figure: the WLFI team controls 33.5% of the total token supply, strategic partners hold another 5.85%, while the public sale accounts for only 20%. What about token holders? According to the white paper, they receive no protocol revenue at all. The majority of protocol earnings—75%—flow directly to the Trump family, with the remaining 25% going to the Witkoff family.

The approval of this proposal essentially amounts to the team using "fair voting" as a pretext to sell tokens, then directly filling their own pockets with profits that should have belonged to all token holders.

As of now, WLFI is priced at $0.1641, with a project market cap of $4.469 billion and a fully diluted valuation (FDV) soaring to $16.4 billion. How should locked token holders view this spectacle?

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JustAnotherWallet

· 7h ago

It's the same trick again... The team votes for themselves, and ordinary people are just meant to be cut? Who won the voting game with 33.5% of the chips?

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AlphaBrain

· 7h ago

This voting... I never really voted from the start, just my own people voting for their own, I've seen through it long ago. --- 33.5% is in the hands of the team, and only 20% for ordinary people? As soon as I saw this ratio, I knew what was going on. --- Another "democratic vote" facade, in reality just self-entertainment, same old tricks. --- Holders have no protocol income? What's the point of holding then, just a direct bag-holder definition. --- The data from DeFi^2 this time is brutal, if your wallet doesn't match the account, don't pretend. --- Projects with a Trump background play like this too... When will the crypto circle have some real stuff? --- 75% of the profits go to the Trump family, this ratio is a bit outrageous. --- I just want to ask, are people still bottom-fishing in this kind of project? --- If a vote is rejected but can still be reversed, it shows the rules themselves are flawed. --- FDV 16.4 billion? I laughed, how much bubble is in there, everyone?

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SelfSovereignSteve

· 7h ago

Damn, is it the same old trick again? Just by digging into the voting data, it's all internal wallets. Who would believe that? The people who are locked up are truly wronged; 75% directly flows to the Trump family. Ordinary people still want a share? 33.5% team holdings plus 5.85% strategic partners, the rest are retail investors. Just looking at this setup, you can tell the outcome. Another project that pretends to be something it’s not; democratic voting has become a joke. FDV supports up to 16.4 billion, but the protocol income can't be obtained? How does this logic even make sense? Basically, it's using tokens to cut the leeks, then distributing the profits to themselves. Truly ruthless.

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TopEscapeArtist

· 7h ago

Damn, this is the so-called "democracy cover," the MACD hasn't even had a golden cross, yet it's being forcibly pumped. --- 33.5% team holdings, this technical analysis clearly shows a head and shoulders top warning signal. I should have cut my losses at the all-time high. --- Votes reversed? Wake up, everyone. This is the tuition paid by those who are destined to buy the dip at high levels. The market cycle teaches us. --- Such obvious bearish signals, and some people are still holding? I need to check where my stop-loss is. --- 75% flows to the Trump family... How crazy must this sentiment indicator be? I'm just a retail investor trying to catch a bottom.

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SigmaBrain

· 7h ago

Damn, is this what they call "democratic voting"? It’s just laughable, basically a family internal division meeting. Team gets 33.5%, partners 5.85%, ordinary users 20%, this distribution looks very familiar. They forcibly flip the opposition votes—really daring. No wonder DeFi^2 has to dig into data to uncover the truth. Protocol profits of 75% flow to Trump, token holders get 0 income? Then what am I really getting? Another elitist project disguised as a DAO, hard to support. WLFI still has a market cap of 16.4 billion FDV. The market really needs to reflect on this. If this tactic is correct, I could list ten such projects. Just by looking at this operation method, you know that early investors are insiders, and retail investors are just there to provide liquidity. Wait, a project with a 16.4 billion valuation, protocol income that ordinary token holders can't access— isn’t this just a complete cut of the leeks?

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