Trump's $800M World Liberty token stake now has a path to sale — starting 2028
On-chain records show six insider wallets, including one matching Donald Trump's disclosed WLFI stake, entered a vesting contract on May 19 that could make roughly $800 million in tokens sellable starting in 2028.
An $800 million allocation of World Liberty Financial (WLFI) tokens matching President Donald Trump's disclosed holding now has a formal timeline to becoming sellable, according to blockchain data reviewed by CoinDesk.
On May 19, six wallets holding World Liberty's insider allocation moved 30 billion WLFI into a vesting contract. Entry required an immediate 10% token burn, a two-year cliff, and a three-year release drip afterward — pushing the earliest possible sale to May 2028. The largest wallet deposited 15.75 billion WLFI and retained 14.175 billion after the burn, matching the "founder allocation" Trump disclosed. Two wallets deposited 3.75 billion each; three deposited 2.25 billion each. At WLFI's current price, the matching stake is worth roughly $800 million, CoinDesk reported.
Until now, those founder tokens carried no set unlock date — an indefinite lockup. The governance proposal that created the option passed on or around May 6 with 11,537 wallets in support, per CoinDesk. Joining was optional; holders who declined stay locked indefinitely. World Liberty spokesman David Wachsman told CoinDesk that "the community voted in support of a founder burn" and that co-founders accepted "the strictest conditions and the longest vesting schedule of all token holders."
The vesting contract is now the single largest WLFI holder, at 46.1 billion tokens — just under half the supply. Total supply has fallen to 96.7 billion from the original 100 billion cap, short of the 4.5 billion the project estimated would burn if every eligible insider joined.
The timeline surfaces as the revised Clarity Act would require senior officials with significant crypto holdings to divest or use a qualified blind trust — a provision Trump has reportedly agreed to. The bill is not law and still faces a 60-vote Senate hurdle.
Key facts
- 30 billion WLFI moved into the vesting contract by six wallets on May 19; 10% burned on entry (CoinDesk, on-chain data).
- Largest wallet: 15.75B deposited, 14.175B after burn — matches Trump's disclosed founder allocation (CoinDesk).
- Two-year cliff plus three-year drip; earliest sale May 2028 (CoinDesk).
- Governance proposal passed ~May 6, 11,537 wallets in support; opt-in (WLFI documentation, via CoinDesk).
- Contract now holds 46.1B WLFI; total supply down to 96.7B from 100B cap (CoinDesk).
- Trump's 2025 financial disclosure: ~$515M in income from WLFI token sales.
The real-world read
CoinDesk's own on-chain review contradicts the story that broke it. The Washington Sun, which first reported the vesting move on Sunday, described four wallets and an even three-way split among Trump's sons; CoinDesk found six wallets and no such split, and could not identify ownership of any wallet beyond the one matching Trump's disclosure. Treat the "sons" framing as unconfirmed.
Note the timing that cuts against a tidy narrative: the wallets entered the contract in May, months before the Clarity Act's ethics language emerged, and WLFI published the mechanism's terms weeks before entry — so this reads less as a response to pending ethics rules than as coincident with them. What "sellable in 2028" actually means for Trump depends on final legislation that hasn't passed. The receipt for Trump already profiting is his own disclosure: ~$515M from token sales.
This is news coverage, not financial advice.