A crypto developer has accused World Liberty Financial (WLFI), a crypto project linked to US President Donald Trump, of seizing his funds by refusing to unlock his tokens.
In a post on X on Saturday, Polygon DevRel Bruno Skvorc shared an email from WLFI’s compliance team, which flagged his wallet as “high risk” due to blockchain exposure and stated that his tokens would not be released.
“TLDR: they stole my money,” Skvorc wrote. “And because it’s the @POTUS family, I can’t do anything about it. This is the new-age mafia. There’s no one to complain to, argue with, or sue.”
Replying to another user, Skvorc added that he is one of six investors who have faced 100% token lockups from the start. “It wasn’t ‘high risk’ to accept money from this address, but it’s high risk to unlock the money owed to it,” he said.
The incident has drawn criticism of the compliance tools used by projects like WLFI. Onchain researcher ZachXBT noted that automated systems often flag wallet addresses as “high risk” for minor or inaccurate reasons, such as interactions with DeFi contracts or exchanges.
“I helped a team manually review addresses for a presale because popular compliance tools flagged them as high risk due to unrelated activity several hops away,” ZachXBT explained. “These tools are deeply flawed.”
In Skvorc’s case, the flags were linked to a past transaction via crypto mixer Tornado Cash, indirect connections to sanctioned entities like Garantex and Netex24, and a previous interaction with a now-blacklisted dashboard.
Skvorc, based in Croatia, is a blockchain developer who contributed to Ethereum 2.0 and founded RMRK, a company integrating multi-resource NFTs into gaming metaverses.
Justin Sun’s WLFI tokens frozen
Meanwhile, Tron founder Justin Sun revealed on Friday that his WLFI token allocation has also been frozen. His wallet was blacklisted after blockchain trackers flagged a $9 million transaction, raising accusations that he had begun selling his tokens.
In an X post, Sun called the freeze “unreasonable” and urged World Liberty Financial to release his tokens. He argued the move contradicted the core values of blockchain, describing tokens as “sacred and inviolable.”
