WWLFI · Ethereum
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WLFI · the token mints nothing, and the treasury sells anyway.

WLFI is the governance token of World Liberty Financial, an Ethereum token with mirrors on BNB Chain and Solana. Supply is capped at 100B and has already fallen to 96.7B through burns; only about 31.8B is counted as freely tradable, with 45.9B sitting in a lock contract that does not open until May 6 2028.

Sell pressure. 993.8M WLFI, and none of it newly created. A project treasury wallet shipped 990.5M out over 90 days — including 170.0M onto an exchange in each of three straight months — while the protocol issued nothing at all.

Buy pressure. 213.9M WLFI, almost all of it one holder locking 200.0M away until 2028 and forfeiting 20.0M to a permanent burn. The approved fee-funded buyback did not fire once.

Net. About 2.45% to market over 90 days and 2.17% projected next — heading up. The lock takes coins off the table for two more years; the treasury puts them back on every month.

Inflation
Last 90 Days
+2.45%
updated · Aug 18 2026
Net flow: 2.45% of supply goes to market over 90 days
Next 90 Days
+2.17%
estimate
Net flow: 2.17% of supply goes to market next 90 days
Supply growing · projected to keep growing
monitor gap · The project treasury at 0xfef30c262676de9af5e5e9ba999cf774000b14b4 fell from 8,818.573M to 7,828.043M between May 20 2026 and Aug 18 2026, with 510.0M of it landing on an exchange in three dated transfers, while the counted-supply feed held near 31.776B throughout; the deep walk on Aug 18 2026 found no offsetting inflow, so primary is kept.
Sell pressure
1. Protocol inflation
0

Nothing creates new WLFI. The live token code was read in full this session: it carries working ways to destroy coins and no way at all to make them, in any form. There is no block reward, no staking payout and no emission curve — WLFI is a governance token, not a fee token. Supply on the contract only ever fell across this window. The address is an upgradeable one, so this row is read fresh from the chain each build rather than closed for good.

updated · Aug 18 2026
2. Vesting unlocks
3.3M WLFI

The calendar says nothing releases until May 6 2028, but the lock contract says otherwise, so the contract was read instead of the calendar. Holders signing the new unlock agreement deposit their allocation and get 20% handed straight back, and those small repayments totalled 3.3M WLFI across 90 days. Everything else stays behind the two-year wall. Almost nothing, but not the flat zero a schedule read would have shipped.

updated · Aug 18 2026
3. Foundation + unscheduled unlocks
990.5M WLFI

This is the entire story. A project treasury wallet holding 7,828M WLFI sent 990.5M out over 90 days and took nothing in, across 27 separate transfers. Three of them were 170.0M each, on Jun 10 2026, Jul 7 2026 and Aug 5 2026, each hopping through a fresh throwaway address before landing on an exchange within the same hour. A further 250.0M crossed the bridge on Aug 6 2026. Every receiving wallet is empty today. The same wallet shed 672.3M the quarter before and 472.1M the quarter before that, so this is speeding up, not slowing. Also watched and unmoved: the lock contract at 45,919M, the master multisig at 12,621M, an untouched 3,584M contract and a 1,000M safe.

updated · Aug 18 2026
4. Long-term locked or bankruptcy
0

There is no estate and no trustee holding WLFI. World Liberty Financial is an operating business with no insolvency proceeding attached to its token, and no court-supervised distribution names it. No public evidence of release in window — monitored.

checked · Aug 18 2026
Buy pressure
1. Programmatic buyback
0

Approved, announced, and not running. Holders voted in Sep 2025 to route every dollar of trading-fee income from the project's own liquidity into open-market WLFI purchases that are then destroyed. Destroying WLFI lowers the supply figure on the contract, so the promise is directly measurable — and that figure read 96,742,743,250 on thirteen weekly samples from May 27 2026 through Aug 18 2026, identical every time. The project's own forum carries a holder letter dated Mar 18 2026 saying no meaningful buyback has run since late 2025; it has no reply. A budget is not a flow.

updated · Aug 18 2026
2. Protocol fee burn
0

There is no fee-funded burn on WLFI. The token takes no cut of any transfer and runs no automatic destruction, so nothing is removed by the act of using it. The one destruction this window did happen came from the unlock agreement instead, and is carried on its own row below so the two mechanisms are never confused.

updated · Aug 18 2026
3. Foundation buy
0

No entity was accumulating. The treasury wallets were read at both ends of the window and swept transfer by transfer through the middle: the active one only sends, the master multisig recorded not one single WLFI transfer in 90 days, and no treasury purchase was disclosed anywhere. No public evidence of release in window — monitored.

updated · Aug 18 2026
4. New long-term lock
193.9M WLFI

Coins moved behind the 2028 wall, and most of it was one wallet. The lock contract took in 213.9M WLFI over the window, of which 20.0M was destroyed on entry and 193.9M is still locked. A single holder that had sat on 200.0M since Jan 2025 put the whole position in on May 22 2026; the rest is hundreds of small holders signing up, running about 13M a quarter now that the big one is done. Locked is not gone — it reappears from May 6 2028 — but for this window it is off the market.

updated · Aug 18 2026
5. Unlock-agreement burn
20.0M WLFI

Destroyed outright, and only visible if you check the right place. Anyone in the team and adviser group who signs the new unlock terms forfeits 10% of their holding permanently. When the 200.0M holder signed on May 22 2026, exactly 20.0M was destroyed fourteen blocks later. It never touched a dead wallet — the supply figure on the contract simply dropped, from 96,762,743,250 to 96,742,743,250 — so watching a burn address would have reported nothing at all. It has not fired since, and it only fires when another insider signs.

updated · Aug 18 2026

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Supply check · sell, buy & net
 
Last 90D
Next 90D
Sell total (M WLFI)
993.800
703.000
Buy total (M WLFI)
213.900
13.000
Sell % of circ
+3.127%
+2.212%
Buy % of circ
+0.673%
+0.041%
Net inflation %
+2.454%
+2.171%
Score (0–2)
0.7
0.7
Verdict
mixed
mixed
Circulating supply: 31776.233M WLFI
Read the inflation analysis
The full Pressure Framework write-up for WLFI.
Why a token with no way to mint still reads inflationary, where the monthly exchange deposits go, and what the 65B held off-market means from here.

MrNasdog Pressure Framework analysis of WLFI, Metric 1 (Inflation Monitor). Data + explanation only. Not financial advice. Updated Aug 18, 2026.