The book value of WLF I held by the Trump family increased to approximately $5.6 billion after it went live for trading, while holding a 38% stake in WLF Holdco LLC and 75% of the net proceeds from the pre-sale. WLF I has a total supply of 100 billion tokens, with a market capitalization of $6.8 billion at launch and a Fully Diluted Valuation of $25 billion.

According to on-chain analysis, crypto KOL DonAlt deposited 12.97 million WLFI on Binance, worth $3.2 million. He previously participated in the WLFI public sale, investing 1000 ETH, and is now suspected of taking profit; if sold, he could make a profit of $2.555 million.

In the past 24 hours, on-chain data shows that the ETH market has become the main battlefield for funds, with Whales frequently switching between long positions stop loss, short positions increase the position, and large stakes, indicating a complex short-term sentiment. The BTC market is quietly moving, with some funds shifting from BTC to ETH. There are signs of large transfers of SOL to exchanges from Galaxy Digital, which could lead to potential selling pressure that needs to be monitored. Hot tokens like WLFI and XPL are experiencing significant fluctuations, with Whale speculation continuing to escalate. Overall, the market is seeing a significant increase in volatility risk during this period of dense macro events, and institutional fund operations deserve close attention.

Gate officially launches WLFI 3x ETF leveraged tokens. Starting from September 2, users can trade WLFI 3 L (go long) and WLFI 3 S (shorting). This product amplifies price fluctuations through a leverage mechanism, providing investors with higher potential returns. Gate is in a leading position in the industry.

On September 2, the Crypto Assets market saw a slight overall Rebound, but the DeFi zone performed weakly, with major Tokens generally experiencing a pullback, and funding sentiment becoming more cautious. The total DeFi TVL across the network slightly decreased to $15.2263 billion, and the total trading volume of DEX was approximately $15.57 billion, down 17.4% from last week, indicating tightening market Liquidity. In terms of hotspots, WLFI officially launched and received endorsement from the Trump family, while the TVL of the Linea network saw a weekly rise of over 60%, becoming a new highlight in the Layer 2 track; Hyperliquid's revenue hit a monthly high, highlighting the continued growth in demand for derivatives trading. Overall, the DeFi market is still in an adjustment cycle, with structurally driven opportunities in short-term hotspot projects receiving more attention.

Trader 0xSun successfully performed two shorting operations on WLFI without incurring unrealized losses. He believes that the current valuation of WLFI is too high, and the short-term trend is influenced by the actual Circulating Supply and the presale unlocking rules, so he will operate cautiously in the future.

BlockBeats news, on September 2, Eric Trump retweeted WLFI's trading performance on its first day of listing, adding the comment, "This is just the beginning." As of the time of writing, WLFI reported at 0.2427 USD. The total trading volume across the network exceeded 2.8 billion USD.

Odaily News Bitget launches WLFI CandyBomb event, where users can share 460,000 WLFI by depositing or trading. Both new and existing users can participate in the corresponding prize pool by completing spot trading tasks, with a maximum of 500 WLFI for a single user. The total prize pool for new users is 290,000 WLFI, while for existing users it is 170,000 WLFI. The event ends on September 8 at 23:00 (UTC+8).

The first place on the Ethena leaderboard is the address AndreIsBack, who participated in the WLFI public sale round, invested 170 ETH eight months ago, and obtained 38.71 million WLFI. This address currently has assets exceeding 41.69 million USD, participated in 21 DeFi projects, and received 1.28 trillion points in rewards on the leaderboard.

Golden Finance reports that Binance will launch the WLFI/BRL and WLFI/EUR spot trading pairs on September 3, 2025, at 16:00, and will open Bots services for these two trading pairs to enhance user trading experience.

Gate News bot message, WLFI has been launched on Alpha.

BlockBeats news, on September 2, Smart Money, crypto KOL 0xsun.sol (@0xSunNFT) disclosed on social media that it profited over 1 million USD by shorting WLFI. 0xSun's attached image shows that it has closed 1279 WLFI positions, with an entry price of 0.32 USD and a closing price of 0.238 USD, resulting in a profit of 1.048 million USD.

Odaily News Odaily reported that MyStonks' "Unlocking Carnival Day · WLFI Universal Distribution" event has successfully concluded. The platform will distribute a total of 80,000 WLFI rewards to users' submitted ETH addresses after the statistics are completed.

According to on-chain analysis, 80% of WLFI holdings whales chose to take profit, with only the TOP 1 and TOP 5 holders not selling. The TOP 1 holder moonmanifest.eth retains most of the tokens, valued at $230 million, while the TOP 6 holder convexcuck.eth sold $3.8 million worth of WLFI to 36 buyers.

Gate News bot message, WLFI has launched Alpha

PANews, September 2nd news, according to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, Whale @moonmanifest47 last night received 200 million WLFI (59.45 million USD) that was unlocked, and sold 10 million WLFI for 2.1 million U 5 hours ago. Selling price was 0.21 USD.

Bitcoin (BTC) maintains a range-bound fluctuation, temporarily reported at around $109,020 on September 2. The value of the World Liberty Financial tokens (WLFI) held by President Trump's family skyrocketed to $5 billion after unlocking. Despite the fall in prices of Bitcoin and Ethereum (ETH), Crypto Assets funds still saw an inflow of $2.5 billion. Metaplanet achieved a milestone of 20,000 BTC in its $2.8 billion growth plan approved by shareholders.

PANews, September 2 news, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, the WLFI long positions opened by Andrew Tate were liquidated, resulting in a loss of $67,600, and he subsequently reopened WLFI long positions with 3x leverage.

According to BlockBeats news on September 2, the WLFI team announced that a new governance proposal has been launched, proposing that all fees generated from the self-owned Liquidity (POL) of the WLFI protocol be used to repurchase WLFI on the open market and permanently destroy it. The fees from the community or third-party LP are not affected.

Golden Finance reports that the market shows WLFI currently priced at $0.2477, having fallen over 10% in the past 3 hours, with a market capitalization of $7,041,088,549, ranking 31st, and the market fluctuating significantly, please ensure proper risk control.

After earning 38 million USD on XPL, TechnoRevenant made several hundred million USD profit on WLFI. He invested 30 million USD to acquire 1% of WLFI Token, which is now worth approximately 245 million USD, achieving an 8x return.

Golden Finance reported that Slow Mist founder Yu Xian stated that another player had their WLFI Token stolen from multiple addresses. Analysis revealed that this was an attack carried out through the malicious contract 7702 deleGate, predicated on the leakage of the Private Key. The Hacker lay in ambush with the malicious 7702 deleGate address on the target Wallet Address in advance, subsequently transferring all ETH and valuable tokens (such as WLFI) away, leaving no balance.

According to GMGN market data, the token Block associated with WLFI has fallen by 33.52% in the last 24 hours, with a market capitalization of $111 million and a coin price of $0.1093. Matthew Morgan, co-founder of Block, serves as an advisor to WLFI and Chief Information Officer of ALT5 Sigma.

BlockBeats news, on September 1st, according to Arkham monitoring, Justin Sun has just received 600 million WLFI, worth 178 million USD, with a total holding of 3 billion WLFI, worth 891.2 million USD. This distribution is only the first batch, accounting for 20% of the unlocked share.

Odaily News Justin Sun posted on the X platform stating that there are no plans to sell the unlocked WLFI Token in the near future, and will focus on increasing the total Circulating Supply of USD 1 on TRON to 200 million USD.

Odaily News According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, about 10 minutes ago, the largest activated account's WLFI investor moonmanifest received 200 million WLFI. Worth $59.45 million.

Falcon Finance allows the use of WLFI as collateral for minting USDf, 100 million WLFI can mint 19.81 million USDf, providing a safety exit channel for Large Investors and dropping the risk of WLFI falling.

Odaily News WLFI multi-sig addresses have repurchased 6.498 million $WLFI on-chain for 2 million USD in the past hour, with an average price of $0.308.

PANews, September 1st news - Eric Trump, the son of U.S. President Trump, announced the issuance of the WorldLibertyFi (WLFI) Token today, stating that the token aims to establish a new standard for financial freedom based on trust, speed, and American values, and believes this is an important moment for the future of currency.

Odaily News According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, in the half hour after the TGE, the selling situation of the top 10 individual holders of $WLFI is as follows: 4 holders (TOP 6/7/8/10) chose to partially or fully sell, while the remaining 6 are still in a holding state. The holders who chose to sell have all opted to deposit into the exchange, rather than engage in on-chain transactions. The 4 holders have deposited a total of 1.86 billion WLFI, accounting for 4% of the total holdings of the top 10 individual holders, and 20% of the total unlocked amount.

Golden Finance reports that, according to Arkham data, the official address of World Liberty Financial spent 1,000,000 USD to purchase 3.26 million WLFI through Cow.

BlockBeats news, on September 1st, according to Lookonchain monitoring, a Smart money Address starting with 6ccDoT earned a profit of $263,866 through WLFI transactions in less than 10 minutes.

According to BlockBeats news on September 1, the Etherscan data shows that due to the large-scale claim behavior after the WLFI Token launch, the Ethereum network Gas surged temporarily, reporting at 126 Gwei at the time of publication.

BlockBeats news, on September 1st, according to market data, WLFI is temporarily reported at 0.3428 USD on the Solana network, with a significant price difference compared to CEX.

Odaily News According to GMGN data, after the WLFI Token trading went live, the on-chain price reached 0.45812 USDT, currently reported at 0.27002 USDT. Odaily reminds users that the market price fluctuates significantly, and investors should participate cautiously.

According to a report by Golden Finance, on-chain analyst Yu Jin monitored that the market-making token WLFI has been gradually entering major CEXs through market makers Jump and DWF. For example, two hours ago, 10 million $WLFI was transferred from the Wlfi official Multi-signature Wallet to Gate.

Gate News bot message, WLFI has removed their latest Medium blog post just 5 minutes after its publication. According to BWENEWS, the blog post was briefly visible on the platform before being taken down.

In the past 24 hours, the crypto market entered a phase of high volatility before the release of macro data, with on-chain funds concentrated in repositioning: BTC ancient Whales continued to transfer over a thousand BTC to HyperLiquid to exchange for ETH, with daily fund flow amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars, making ETH the focus; the newly launched project WLFI has been joined by Jump Crypto for market making, with on-chain Whales engaging in high-leverage layouts and cross-chain tests, causing market activity to surge; institutions like Trend Research have deposited ENS and PENDLE into mainstream CEXs, which may exert reduction pressure; some high-leverage short positions are already facing unrealized losses, with intense capital competition; meanwhile, there are clear signs of market manipulation in the XPL market, and the risk of concentrated holdings is increasing. Overall, BTC remains in a sideways trend, with volatility and capital heat shifting towards ETH and hot projects like WLFI, with a possibility of rapid market movements in the short term. Below are detailed data and trend analysis:

Gate News bot message, a significant cryptocurrency movement occurred as a whale address transferred $10.19M USDC to HyperLiquid platform, subsequently establishing a short position on WLFI with 3x leverage. The transaction data indicates an existing open order to further expand this short position

On September 1, the cryptocurrency market as a whole faced pressure and adjustments, with BTC and ETH and other mainstream assets fluctuating and weakening. However, the DeFi zone performed brightly, with major tokens generally rising, and funds concentrated in high-activity tracks amidst the volatile market. It is worth noting that the WLFI unlock window is about to open, with its initial circulating supply and potential selling pressure becoming the focus of the entire market. Meanwhile, the competitive landscape between Ethereum and Solana ecosystem DEX remains tense, with Hyperliquid returning to the top three thanks to strong trading volume.

Foresight News reports that according to @ai9684xtpa's monitoring, an address starting with 0x453 transferred 2 million USDC to the WLFI fundraising address seven months ago and received 40 million Tokens in return, with a cost of $0.05 per Token. The source of funds for this address is GSR. It is currently unclear whether GSR Markets is participating in the investment as an institution or will provide market-making services, and no related transfers from the official multi-signature have been observed yet.

Odaily News According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's article, based on the WLFI distribution announced by @0 xDylan, the initial circulation of WLFI is 5% for investors + 3% for liquidity. Currently, the unlocked WLFI for investors is 16.9 billion pieces, and unlocking 20% means 3.4 billion pieces. Adding the 3% liquidity, the initial circulation should be at 6.4% (6.4 billion pieces).

Odaily News Dylan0 x announced that the WLFI token economic model has been updated, with 8% allocated to Alt 5 Public Company and locked, 10% reserved for future incentive programs, points, etc. (locked, details to be announced by the official). The shares of the team and institutional investors have been locked. In addition, 3% is allocated for Centralized Exchange liquidity (CEX liquidity) and Decentralized Exchange liquidity (DEX LP), with 5% allocated to investors. Furthermore, Dylan stated in response to WLFI liquidity data that the circulating supply accounts for 5%.

PANews September 1st news, regarding "CMC shows that the verified WLFI TGE initial circulation is 27.3 billion pieces, far higher than the previously estimated theoretical circulation value of 5 billion pieces, suspected to be inaccurate", on-chain analyst @ai9684xtpa released an update stating that CMC CEO Rush indicated that this circulation data has been "repeatedly confirmed with the project party".

BlockBeats news, on September 1, according to CoinGecko data, on the eve of WLFI's listing, the crypto market experienced a widespread fall, with the total market capitalization currently reported at 3.81 trillion USD, a 24-hour decline of 1.5%. On the decline leaderboard, meme coins led the drop: NOBODY had a daily decline of 18.2%, BLOCK had a daily decline of 17.2%, and NEIRO had a daily decline of 17.3%. In terms of mainstream altcoins, SKL had a daily decline of 11.9%, and CFX had a daily decline of 10.6%.

BlockBeats news, on September 1, according to Coinglass data, the current open interest of WLFI contracts across the network reaches 880 million USD, with Holdings calculated in coin terms, the Holdings amount to 2.563 billion WLFI, an increase of 47.58% in the past 24 hours.