Catenaa, Saturday, September 06, 2025- Trading in WLFI derivatives surged more than 400% to $3.13 billion last Sunday, reports said.
They said that this was a result of investors anticipating the first token unlock from the Trump-linked DeFi project World Liberty Financial on Monday, according to Coinglass data.
Open interest in WLFI contracts also jumped over 50% to $760 million.
WLFI perpetual futures launched last week around $0.40, dipping to $0.32 in pre-market trading. Binance accounted for nearly half of the derivatives volume at $1.52 billion, followed by OKX at $607 million and Bitget at $428 million. Binance also leads in open interest at $360 million, more than triple Bitget’s $107 million.
Monday’s unlock will release 20% of tokens purchased by early investors in the $0.015 and $0.05 rounds, representing roughly 5% of WLFI’s total 100 billion token supply.
If pre-market prices hold, the token’s fully diluted value will exceed $31 billion, placing World Liberty near projects like Sui, Dogecoin, and Tron. Early investors in the $0.015 round could see a 20-fold return.
The Trump family holds 22.5 billion WLFI tokens via DT Marks DEFI LLC, potentially worth over $7 billion at current prices, though these tokens remain locked.
Critics have raised conflict-of-interest concerns over President Donald Trump’s stake, with attempts to introduce guardrails in stablecoin legislation largely unsuccessful.
World Liberty also hinted at an upcoming announcement for its USD1 stablecoin, which will include a loyalty program, signaling further expansion into US internet capital markets.
