[DigitalToday reporter Chi-gyu Hwang] World Liberty Financial (World Liberty Financial, WLFI), a DeFi project linked to the family of U.S. President Donald Trump, sold about 170 BTC to avoid the risk of liquidation on the DeFi protocol Aave.

According to Arkham Intelligence, the WLFI wallet was confirmed to have sold bitcoin worth about $11 million at around $67,000 to repay a loan.

On the same day, the WLFI token fell 14 percent, underperforming bitcoin and ether, which fell 13 percent.

WLFI started with a market capitalization of $6.6 billion and a token price of $0.23 when it launched its token in September 2025, but it has continued to fall, dropping to $0.115, down by more than half.

Along with financial difficulties, political pressure is also intensifying. Democratic Representative Ro Khanna announced that day that he would launch an official investigation into a $500 million investment from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) into WLFI. Last year, Senator Elizabeth Warren and Senator Jack Reed raised allegations that WLFI was linked to malicious actors tied to North Korea and Russia, but no concrete progress on that has yet been confirmed.

Warren has taken a critical stance toward cryptocurrencies in general, calling users of decentralized finance (DeFi) "fraudsters" and strongly criticising related legislation, the GENIUS Act, as a "grift".