As a crypto project supported by the Trump family, World Liberty Financial (WLFI) has recently become a focus on-chain due to a token unlocking plan involving a market capitalization of tens of billions. According to AiCoin monitoring, the WLFI community has officially initiated a governance proposal regarding the “token unlocking plan for early supporters and founding teams,” and has opened voting on the official page. The essence of the proposal lies in hedging potential market impacts through a lengthy unlocking period, involving a total of approximately 62.28 billion locked tokens. Among them, about 17 billion tokens held by early supporters are planned to be released over a 4-year period with a “2-year cliff + 2-year linear unlocking”; while approximately 45.2 billion tokens held by the founding team, advisors, and partners will need to gradually unlock over a 5-year period (2 years cliff + 3 years linear). Additionally, the plan introduces an optional burn mechanism, allowing the team and partners to voluntarily burn 10% of their holdings (approximately 4.52 billion tokens) permanently, while tokens that do not actively accept the new plan will face permanent locking.

From a data perspective, the threshold for this governance vote is set at 1 billion WLFI, with the voting period lasting 7 days, expected to end on May 7, 2026. As of April 30, 2026, approximately 34 related reports have focused on this proposal, reflecting the market's high attention to the project's token structure. Preliminary assessments suggest that if the proposal passes smoothly, this massive amount of locked WLFI will not create substantial selling pressure in the next two years, and the increase in the circulating supply in the short term is significantly delayed. However, whether this strategy of “timing the sell pressure” can create space for ecological development still needs to focus on closely monitoring the subsequent voting participation and specific on-chain execution details.

62.2 Billion Locked Tokens on Chain Voting: Who is Waiting for Release

The core of this governance proposal is to reassign rights and plan the pathway for 62,282,252,205 WLFI tokens in a locked state. According to AiCoin data, this scale almost covers the major share of the project's early distribution, and its direction directly determines the foundational color of WLFI's circulation in the coming years. Specifically, this massive amount of tokens is divided into two core camps: one is the approximately 17 billion WLFI held by early supporters; the other is the approximately 45.2 billion WLFI held by the founding team, advisors, and partners. For a project supported by the Trump family, which carries a strong narrative attribute, the locked status of over 62.2 billion tokens is not only a touchstone for project governance but also a key anchor for the market's evaluation of its long-term value support. If the proposal is approved, it means that this portion of chips holding absolute weight will be formally incorporated into a release cycle of 4 to 5 years, thus mechanism-wise avoiding the possibility of large-scale sell-offs in the short term.

In terms of governance execution, the voting officially commenced on April 29, 2026, on the official governance page, with a 7-day decision window. To ensure the effectiveness of governance decisions, the proposal requires a quorum threshold of at least 1 billion WLFI participating in the vote. Preliminary on-chain statistics show a very high willingness to participate in the community: currently, around 736 addresses have participated in the vote, with supporting votes reaching approximately 3.2 billion WLFI, surpassing the quorum threshold, while opposing votes are only about 1.1 million, with a support rate of up to 99.6%. This data signal indicates that the core holding community holds a strong consensus on the unlocking plan of “trading time for space.” The vote is expected to end on May 7, 2026. If the plan is finalized then, these 62.2 billion tokens will officially enter at least a two-year “lock-up period,” providing a relatively stable token environment for the early construction of the WLFI ecosystem.

Two-Year Cliff Plus Years of Release: When is the Sell Pressure Pushed Back

According to the details disclosed in this governance proposal, World Liberty Financial (WLFI) has set a highly binding time leverage on the 62 billion tokens in a locked state, with the core logic being to completely lock short-term liquidity expectations with a 2-year “cliff.” According to reports from Foresight News and Odaily, both early supporters and the founding team will not be able to reduce any tokens during the first 24 months after the proposal is passed. This means that if the vote passes smoothly in May 2026, this large portion of chips will not begin unlocking until May 2028. This “everyone locked” mechanism effectively delays any potential immediate sell pressure, reserving ample time for the project's ecological construction under the Trump family background.

In terms of specific release rhythm, the proposal designs differentiated long-cycle paths for addresses with different attributes. Among them, about 17 billion WLFI held by early supporters are planned to adopt a “2-year cliff + 2-year linear unlocking” scheme, which will release monthly over the next two years after the expiration of the lock-up period in 2028, spanning a total of 4 years. The larger portion—approximately 45.2 billion WLFI held by the founding team, advisors, and partners—is subject to a more stringent “2-year cliff + 3-year linear unlocking” arrangement, extending the total release period to 5 years. Notably, the founding team is also required to voluntarily burn 10% (approximately 4.52 billion WLFI) of their holdings when choosing this plan, a move that, combined with a five-year release span, significantly reduces the potential mid-to-long-term circulating inflation rate.

From a time perspective, this proposal essentially transforms WLFI from a previous state of “indefinite lock-up” or ambiguous locking status into a highly transparent and structured release model spanning 4 to 5 years. According to AiCoin data and related reports, this design spreads the sell pressure that may have concentrated into the timeframe between 2028 and 2031. For the market, while this确定的时间锚点明确了未来的减持路径，流通的稀缺性在客观上得到了维持，从而改变了该项目早期的筹码分布结构。

Burning 10% or Permanent Locking: Two Paths Before the Team

In this governance proposal, for the core holdings of around 45.2 billion WLFI held by the founding team, advisors, and partners, the project has designed a highly binding choice mechanism. According to reports from Foresight News and PANews, if these core holders want to obtain the unlocking path, they must accept a “liquidity in exchange for destruction” plan: participants need to voluntarily burn 10% of their total holdings, which is approximately 4.52 billion WLFI. After completing this “good faith deposit” style destruction, the remaining 90% of tokens will enter a 5-year release cycle, including a 2-year complete lock-up period (cliff) followed by 3 years of linear unlocking. This design attempts to achieve a hard data balance between dilutive token value and long-term interest binding through directly reducing the expected profits of the team.

For those tokens that do not actively accept the new plan, the proposal sets a more aggressive restriction: these tokens will remain in a permanently locked state. It is worth noting that multiple media outlets have mentioned that even if the tokens are permanently locked, the corresponding addresses will still retain governance participation rights. This arrangement of separating governance rights from economic rights (liquidation rights) has profound implications in the on-chain governance logic. It means that the team and core members can maintain control over the protocol’s direction without profiting through secondary market sales. From a data perspective, a potential destruction of up to 4.5 billion tokens will directly reduce WLFI's nominal total supply, while “permanent locking” logically completely removes this portion of chips from circulation expectations, helping to alleviate the community's trust crisis over the core team's large-scale cash-out and strengthen its narrative logic for long-term construction.

Voting Threshold and Community Attitude: Preliminary Signals are Emerging

The passage of this governance proposal is not without requirements, reflecting a dual consideration of governance efficiency and consensus breadth in its procedural settings. According to PANews and Odaily reports, the voting period for this unlocking proposal is strictly limited to 7 days, with a quorum threshold set at 1 billion WLFI. According to preliminary data provided by Grok (pending further verification), the voting process officially started on April 29, 2026, and is expected to close on May 7. This “time-limited voting” mechanism not only requires holders to reach a consensus on the token release path extending over the next 4 to 5 years in a short time but also tests the WLFI community’s mobilization ability at critical governance nodes. For this massive plan involving 62.28 billion locked tokens, a 7-day time window means that core stakeholders must quickly express their positions to establish future liquidity boundaries.

Although the final result still needs to be based on the official governance page, the preliminary signals already show a very high consensus tendency. According to currently collected community statistics, approximately 736 wallets have participated in the vote, with supporting votes around 3.2 billion WLFI, while opposing votes are only about 1.1 million, with a support rate of 99.6%. According to AiCoin data, the current participation scale has significantly exceeded the quorum requirement of 1 billion tokens, indicating that the proposal has basically gained procedural support for passage. The extremely high support rate reflects that early holders deeply recognize the “timing-for-space” strategy, trading actively extended lock-up periods for more stable market expectations instead of seeking liquidity release in the short term.

This governance event has also triggered significant resonance in the public opinion sphere. Statistics show that reports around this proposal have accumulated about 34 within a short period, reflecting the market's high sensitivity to the governance direction of this Trump family-associated project. Notably, even if some token holders do not actively accept the new plan, their tokens will remain permanently locked but still retain governance participation rights. This design of “decoupling governance rights from liquidity,” combined with the current overwhelming support rate, reveals the current logic of the WLFI core community: locking up these 62 billion chips through collective voting before a large-scale circulation of tokens is a key step to strengthen the project’s long-term construction narrative and alleviate market sell-pressure expectations. Currently, community participation enthusiasm is still ongoing, and the final execution details will await further announcements from the official after the voting concludes.

Observing WLFI's Future Risks and Key Observations from the Unlocking Plan

Based on the core terms of this governance proposal, WLFI effectively mitigates the potential short-term concentrated sell pressure of 62 billion tokens through multi-year unlocking arrangements and at least two years of “absolute lock-up period.” If the proposal is ultimately approved and executed, the tokens of early supporters and the team will not flow into the secondary market at least until 2028. This linear release rhythm over 4 to 5 years reflects the intention of the project party to deeply bind core stakeholders to the protocol's long-term value. In particular, if the founding team voluntarily burns about 4.52 billion WLFI (approximately 10% of their holdings) when selecting this new plan, this action, if implemented, will have a one-time reduction effect on the long-term total supply of tokens, improving the supply structure on a data level.

However, investors still need to pay attention to the potential risks arising from the separation of economic rights and governance rights. Since tokens that do not accept the new unlocking plan will remain permanently locked but retain governance rights, there may be a future scenario where a large quantity of governance weights is long-held in addresses unable to engage in market competition, possibly leading to an excessive concentration of governance or decision preferences deviating from the interests of active holders. Future markets should focus on observing the final voting results around May 7, 2026, the actual scale of team execution in token burns, and the specific on-chain execution details. As a flagship project supported by the Trump family, whether WLFI's model of “mandatory lock-up for governance continuation” becomes a reference paradigm for similar agreements still needs to be further verified through its subsequent on-chain governance efficiency and funding retention performance.

Join our community to discuss and become stronger together!
Official Telegram community: https://t.me/aicoincn
AiCoin Chinese Twitter: https://x.com/AiCoinzh
AiCoin On-Chain: https://aicoin.com/hyperliquid
AiCoin Exclusive Hyperliquid Benefits: https://app.hyperliquid.xyz/join/AICOIN88
AiCoin Exclusive Aster Benefits: https://www.asterdex.com/zh-CN/referral/9C50e2

免责声明：本文章仅代表作者个人观点，不代表本平台的立场和观点。本文章仅供信息分享，不构成对任何人的任何投资建议。用户与作者之间的任何争议，与本平台无关。如网页中刊载的文章或图片涉及侵权，请提供相关的权利证明和身份证明发送邮件到support@aicoin.com，本平台相关工作人员将会进行核查。