Trump-Linked 14.175 Billion WLFI Stake Locked Until 2028 Under Vesting Contract

Six Wallets Move 30 Billion WLFI

On-chain records show that six insider wallets tied to World Liberty Financial moved 30 billion WLFI tokens into a vesting smart contract on May 19, establishing the first formal timetable for when the stake widely attributed to President Donald Trump could become sellable. The largest of the six wallets deposited 15.75 billion WLFI, and the contract's terms required an immediate 10% burn upon entry, leaving 14.175 billion tokens — precisely the size of the “founder allocation” Trump has publicly disclosed for the family-linked venture. At prevailing WLFI prices that residual position is worth roughly $800 million, although blockchain records alone cannot conclusively establish who controls the wallets. The other five participants deposited smaller tranches: two wallets at 3.75 billion WLFI each and three at 2.25 billion each, per our review of the transfer history (on Etherscan). The vesting structure replaces what had been an effectively indefinite lockup with a two-year cliff — no tokens from these wallets can be sold before May 2028 — after which the balance releases in stages across a further three years. That converts an open-ended question mark into a dated schedule, and it matters because the presidential stake has sat at the center of the most prominent conflict-of-interest debate of Trump's second term. The tokens remain unsellable today, but the contract now provides the clearest on-chain map of when that paper value could first be converted into cash.

Governance Vote Paved the Path

The mechanism behind the transfer traces back to a governance proposal passed on or around May 6, supported by 11,537 wallets, which gave founder-token holders the option to swap an indefinite lockup for the two-year cliff plus a three-year staged release. Participation was voluntary: World Liberty Financial's own documentation confirms that holders who declined to join remain locked indefinitely, meaning non-participating insider tokens stay frozen with no release date at all. A World Liberty Financial spokesman, David Wachsman, said the community voted for a founder burn and that co-founders moved tokens into a smart contract to execute it, adding that co-founders face the strictest conditions and the longest vesting schedule of any holder class. The vesting contract itself is now the single largest holder of WLFI, sitting on 46.1 billion tokens — just under half of all tokens in existence, per the contract's balance page. Total supply has fallen to 96.7 billion from the original 100 billion cap, against a project estimate of 4.5 billion destroyed if every eligible insider had joined. The schedule also lands as the latest draft of the Clarity Act tightens ethics rules, requiring senior officials with significant digital-asset holdings to divest or place them in a qualified blind trust — a provision Trump has reportedly accepted. Still, the wallets entered the contract months before that language surfaced, so the move cannot be read as a response to it. Readers tracking the market in real time can follow live spot and futures prices on MEXC.

2028 Supply Overhang in Focus

COINOTAG's read: the May vesting contract and the Senate's ethics debate are converging on the same stake from opposite directions, and 2028 is now the date both sides anchor to. Trump has already extracted value from the venture — his 2025 financial disclosure listed roughly $515 million of income tied to WLFI token sales — yet the founder allocation itself had never carried a sale date until now. The Clarity Act remains unenacted and faces a 60-vote Senate hurdle, leaving the legal treatment of the stake open. Traders watching WLFI's support and resistance levels should note that a staged release of this size could add meaningful slippage pressure well before the cliff, as markets price the coming supply.