The federal lawsuit filed by Justin Sun on Tuesday, April 21, 2026, marks a dramatic fracture in the relationship between the TRON founder and the Trump-backed World Liberty Financial (WLF). Sun, the project’s largest investor, alleges that WLF secretly deployed "backdoor" smart contract functions to blacklist his wallet and freeze approximately 4 billion WLFI tokens—holdings that were worth over $100 million at the time of the freeze in late 2025.

The complaint further claims that WLF leadership, including co-founder Chase Herro, attempted to coerce Sun into a $200 million commitment for their new stablecoin ($USD1) by threatening to "burn" his existing tokens directly within his digital wallet.

While Sun remains a vocal supporter of President Trump, his legal action targets specific project individuals for what he describes as an "illegal scheme to seize property," sparking a fierce industry-wide debate over the ethics of centralized "admin keys" in decentralized finance.

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