By Tom Wilson

LONDON, April 13 (Reuters) – A major investor in U.S. President Donald Trump’s World Liberty Financial crypto venture has claimed that the firm “secretly” implemented a tool to unilaterally freeze and restrict private holdings of its WLFI token.

In posts on social media platform ‌X on Sunday, crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun said, without offering evidence, that World Liberty had embedded what he described as a “backdoor blacklisting function” ‌in the blockchain-based contracts used for the tokens.

The move, Sun wrote, gave World Liberty “unilateral power” to “freeze, restrict, and effectively confiscate the property rights” of any token holder, without cause and without recourse.

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