# Trump's World Liberty Financial Gets Boost From Justin Sun's $30M WLFI Purchase

Source: https://www.coindesk.com/business/2024/11/25/trumps-sluggish-de-fi-project-gets-a-big-boost-from-justin-suns-30-m-token-purchase
Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Trumps-World-Liberty-Financial-Gets-Boost-From-Justin-Suns-dollar30M-WLFI-Purchase?index=0x674500152140bb0db084dd11022c7c76d163999b7ffe431dfec77b0c9c4b4a421478f2d2
Submitted by misha on 2024-11-25 UTC, 2 upvotes, 1 comment

## Summary

Justin Sun, founder of the TRON blockchain, bought $30 million worth of WLFI tokens from World Liberty Financial, a decentralized finance platform backed by Donald Trump and his three sons. The purchase came after slow initial sales, as investors bought far fewer WLFI tokens than the project hoped. Before Sun's Monday purchase, the project had sold $21 million of its $300 million target. According to the project's "gold paper," a portion of sale proceeds goes to a Trump-controlled company, but only once proceeds exceed $30 million.

## Comments

**misha**: 🍌 this is where the banana went (see photo w/article)