WLFI threatens Justin Sun with lawsuit over $75 million DeFi loan

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WLFI threatened Justin Sun with legal action after he accused the project of misconduct.
The dispute escalated after a roughly $75 million loan backed by 5 billion WLFI tokens on Dolomite.
Sun was one of the project’s largest outside investors and had previously clashed with WLFI over frozen tokens.
The feud has intensified questions about governance, transparency and related-party ties inside WLFI.

A governance dispute turns legal

According to CoinDesk, the immediate trigger for the escalation was a post by WLFI on X, where the project said it had “contracts,” “evidence,” and “the truth,” before adding: “See you in court.” The threat came after Sun described the team’s actions as illegal and said the project was treating its users like a “personal ATM.”

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At the center of the dispute is a transaction involving WLFI on the Dolomite platform. The project posted 5 billion of its own WLFI tokens as collateral and borrowed about $75 million in stablecoins. Dolomite is advised by a WLFI insider and that Dolomite co-founder Corey Caplan serves as an adviser to World Liberty Financial.

Sun’s criticism came amid a broader debate over whether such a structure should be viewed as a standard treasury operation or as a source of conflicts of interest and risk for protocol users. The loan was arranged on a platform tied to a project adviser, and that the transaction intensified scrutiny of WLFI’s governance and transparency.

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A break with one of the project’s biggest backers

The current conflict stands out because Sun had long been seen as one of WLFI’s most important supporters. He invested at least $75 million in the project, while CoinDesk described him as WLFI’s largest outside backer. As early as the fall of 2025, the project froze a Sun-linked address holding a large amount of WLFI, and that dispute over control of the tokens became one of the first major tests of the project’s governance.

After roughly $9 million in WLFI was transferred from an address linked to Sun, the tokens were “improperly frozen,” while Sun said he had not sold the assets and had only been making test transfers to exchanges. The latest confrontation suggests that dispute was never fully resolved and has now moved beyond internal disagreement.

What the conflict says about WLFI

The story matters not only because of the personal clash between the project and one of its investors. It also shows that questions remain about WLFI’s control structure, related-party ties and handling of user and treasury assets.

When a project that presents itself as a DeFi platform is publicly fighting with one of its largest supporters over frozen tokens, the use of its own assets as collateral and a loan worth tens of millions of dollars, it becomes a test not only of the team’s reputation, but of confidence in the project’s governance model itself.

It was earlier reported that Justin Sun denies selling WLFI tokens after wallet blacklisting.

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