WLFI team backs multi‑year vesting and up to 4.52B token burn

WLFI’s team has proposed burning up to 4.52 billion tokens and locking most of the remaining team and ecosystem allocation for 2–5 years, lifting the price about 7% to roughly $0.084 as traders bet on a cleaner supply curve.

World Liberty Financial’s team has unveiled a sweeping governance proposal that would permanently destroy up to 4.52 billion WLFI and lock most of the remaining team and ecosystem tokens for between two and five years, in an attempt to repair tokenomics after a volatile first year of trading. The plan, published on the project’s governance forum and now circulating in the community, would apply to a pool of 6.228 billion currently locked WLFI, tightening supply just months after the Trump‑affiliated project navigated a $483 million token unlock that raised concerns about long‑term sell pressure.

Under the proposal, the founding team commits to “permanently destroying up to 4.52 billion WLFI tokens” from its locked allocation, with on‑chain burns executed over time once the measure passes and technical steps are complete. Of the remaining tokens, 90% would be subject to new vesting rules that lock them for between two and five years depending on category, while early investors’ allocations would remain fully retained under their original terms but still subject to any existing lockups.

In its governance post, the team describes the package as a way to “align long‑term incentives and address concerns about supply overhang,” framing the burn and extended vesting as textbook tokenomics repair rather than a cosmetic tweak. That language echoes community feedback and outside reporting from outlets such as CryptoSlate, which previously highlighted how concentrated unlocks and short‑term allocations had weighed on sentiment even as WLFI rolled out buyback‑and‑burn mechanics funded by protocol revenue.

Previous governance votes show WLFI holders are willing to back aggressive lock‑up measures when they believe it supports token value. In March, token holders approved a rule requiring WLFI to be staked for 180 days to participate in governance, with voters who lock and vote at least twice eligible for roughly 2% annual yield; that measure passed with 99.12% support, though more than 76% of voting power came from just ten wallets.

On the latest proposal, the team says the new burn and vesting framework is meant to complement the existing policy of directing protocol‑owned liquidity fees toward buybacks and ongoing burns, which already saw tens of millions of WLFI destroyed last year. Following publication of the new plan, WLFI’s market price climbed around 7% to about $0.084, according to CoinMarketCap data, though the token remains well below its September 2025 all‑time high near $0.46 and continues to trade with high intraday volatility.

In earlier crypto.news coverage of WLFI’s governance‑staking rules, as well as articles on token unlocks and deflationary token models in other ecosystems, multi‑year vesting and targeted burns have been cast as a way to shift projects from reflexive sell pressure to higher‑beta bets on protocol growth, a trajectory this latest WLFI proposal is clearly trying to follow in this story, this story and this story.