World Liberty Financial Surges 28% After $2.8M Whale Buy

World Liberty Financial Tops Gainers With 28% Pump After Whale Buys $2.8M WLFI On Binance Despite Blacklisting Controversy

BySteven Walgenbach

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Updated: 07 September 2025

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World Liberty Financial surged 28% to top gainers after a whale bought $2.8 million worth of WLFI from Binance despite controversy over blacklisted addresses tied to TRON’s Justin Sun.

Following that strong 24-hour performance, WLFI trades at $0.2348 as of 1:02 a.m. EST, data from CoinMarketCap shows.

WLFI price chart (Source: CoinMarketCap)

Whale Buys WLFI From Binance Amid Wallet Blacklisting Controversy

WLFI’s surge comes after a whale withdrew $2.84 million worth of tokens from Binance, the largest crypto exchange by 24-hour volume.

According to on-chain data from Arkham Intelligence that was cited by on-chain analytics platform Lookonchain in an X post earlier today, the whale acquired 13 million tokens in the last few hours.

A newly created wallet withdrew 13M $WLFI($2.84M) from #Binance 8 hours ago.https://t.co/tBfJoSAQaC pic.twitter.com/YrJBeVAUTg

— Lookonchain (@lookonchain) September 7, 2025

Lookonchain also said that the wallet behind the activity is a newly-created address.

The on-chain data shows that WLFI is its biggest allocation, with a small Ethereum (ETH) holding worth $420.48 at current prices.

The recent transfer follows WLFI’s debut on several major crypto exchange platforms, including Binance, OKX, KuCoin and others at the start of the week.

Controversy has since clouded the project when billionaire TRON founder and early WLFI investor Sun reported that his wallet was blacklisted by the project’s team after he tried to send some tokens to exchanges.

Sun said that his tokens were “unreasonably frozen” after he a small amount of tokens as part of “a few general exchange deposit tests.”

Multiple other investors who also bought into WLFI early subsequently reported that their wallets were blacklisted and frozen, which locked their WLFI funds. World Liberty Financial recently confirmed that it has blacklisted a total of 272 wallets.

World Liberty Financial Says It Took Preemptive Action

In a thread on Friday, the World Liberty Financial said that around 79% of the wallets, or 215 addresses, were tied to a phishing attack. It added these addresses were frozen as part of a preemptive move, and the team is “working with the rightful owners to secure/move assets.”

We’ve heard community concerns about recent wallet blacklists. Transparency first: WLFI only intervenes to protect users, never to silence normal activity. 🦅

— WLFI (@worldlibertyfi) September 5, 2025

Another 50 of the frozen addresses belonged to owners who had reported that their wallets had been compromised.

There were also 5 addresses that were flagged “for high-risk exposure,” while 1 address was suspected of “misappropriation of other holders’ funds,” according to the project.

“We do not seek to blacklist anyone,” World Liberty Financial wrote in the thread. “We respond when alerted to malicious or high-risk activity that could harm community members. User safety > everything.”