Apart from Justin Sun’s wallet, World Liberty Financial has blacklisted over 270 additional wallets

World Liberty Financial (WLFI), the DeFi project linked to the US President Donald Trump, has blacklisted more than 200 wallet addresses since it started trading on Sept. 1.

On Sept. 4, Galaxy researcher Zach Pokorny reported that the DeFi venture had blocked 272 wallet addresses within its first week of trading.

According to Pokorny, some of the restrictions were applied through bulk transactions. He suggested that initial blocklist actions appeared tied to pre-launch know-your-customer (KYC) checks, while the motives for more recent blocklists remain uncertain.

The move aligns with WLFI’s earlier disclosure that it had blocked wallets during its token rollout to counter hacking attempts.

The project’s team stated:

“A WLFI-designated wallet [has executed the] mass blacklisting of wallets identified as compromised (private-key loss) prior to launch. These onchain actions thwarted attempted theft from the Lockbox.”

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