Crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun on Tuesday sued World Liberty Financial, the digital currency venture cofounded by U.S. President Donald Trump and his sons, alleging that World Liberty illegally froze his holdings of tokens issued by the company.
Sun alleged in the lawsuit, filed in a federal court in California, that World Liberty secretly installed tools to prevent the sale of his tokens after they became tradeable in September 2025. The lawsuit also alleges that World Liberty threatened to "burn" ¡ª or permanently delete ¡ª his holdings, even while they were ?in Sun's digital wallet.
Sun, the Hong Kong-based founder of the Tron cryptocurrency, bought $45 million of WLFI tokens ¡ª some 3 billion ¡ª and was later awarded a further 1 billion ?tokens after ?being named as an advisor to World Liberty, the lawsuit said.
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