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A judge ordered a freeze of $456 million in assets tied to a stablecoin reserve bailout that reportedly involved Tron founder Justin Sun.

According to the lawsuit, Justin Sun’s crypto holdings included about 60 billion Tron, 17,000 Bitcoin, 224,000 Ether and 700 million Tether as of February. A US judge has set Tron founder and CEO Justin Sun’s lawsuit against Bloomberg back a peg after denying a temporary restraining order and injunction over publishing information about his cryptocurrency holdings. In a Monday filing in the US District Court for the District of Delaware, Judge Colm Connolly sided with Bloomberg in Sun’s lawsuit over “disclosed amounts of specific cryptocurrency he owns.” According to the filings, the holdings included about 60 billion Tron (TRX), 17,000 Bitcoin (BTC), 224,000 Ether (ETH) and 700 million Tether (USDt). The publication had reached out to Sun’s team in February to gather information about the Tron founder’s wealth for its Billionaires Index. Read more

An analyst forecasts Bitcoin may tap $50,000 in the 2026 bear market, Justin Sun urges WLFI to unfreeze tokens: Hodler’s Digest Several financial institutions and market analysts are now projecting the US Federal Reserve, the countrys central bank, will slash interest rates from the current target rate of 4.25%-4.5% at least twice in 2025. The banking forecasts followed a weak August jobs report that saw only 22,000 jobs added for the month, versus expectations of about 75,000. Analysts at Bank of America, a banking and financial services company, reversed their long-held stance of no rate cuts in 2025 and are now projecting two 25 basis point (BPS) cuts one in September and another in December according to Bloomberg. Read more

An analyst forecasts Bitcoin may tap $50,000 in the 2026 bear market, Justin Sun urges WLFI to unfreeze tokens: Hodler’s Digest Several financial institutions and market analysts are now projecting the US Federal Reserve, the countrys central bank, will slash interest rates from the current target rate of 4.25%-4.5% at least twice in 2025. The banking forecasts followed a weak August jobs report that saw only 22,000 jobs added for the month, versus expectations of about 75,000. Analysts at Bank of America, a banking and financial services company, reversed their long-held stance of no rate cuts in 2025 and are now projecting two 25 basis point (BPS) cuts one in September and another in December according to Bloomberg. Read more

World Liberty Financial (WLFI), the DeFi project linked to the US President Donald Trump, has blacklisted more than 200 wallet addresses since it started trading on Sept. 1. On Sept. 4, Galaxy researcher Zach Pokorny reported that the DeFi venture had blocked 272 wallet addresses within its first week of trading. According to Pokorny, some […] The post Apart from Justin Sun’s wallet, World Liberty Financial has blacklisted over 270 additional wallets appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Sun said his WLFI pre-sale allocation was “unreasonably frozen” in a move that could damage the reputation of the Trump-family-linked decentralized finance platform. Update Sept. 5, 11:20 a.m. UTC: This article has been updated to include insights from Coinbase’s Conor Grogan. Tron founder Justin Sun is urging World Liberty Financial (WLFI), a crypto project linked to the Trump family, to unfreeze his token allocation. His wallets were blacklisted after suspicious transactions flagged by blockchain trackers sparked accusations of selling. Sun’s World Liberty Financial (WLFI) token address was blacklisted on Thursday, after blockchain data from Nansen and Arkham flagged the address for a $9 million transfer, Cointelegraph reported. Read more

WLFI has rebounded above $0.18 after Justin Sun’s wallet was blacklisted, locking 2.94B tokens and tightening supply. The project has burned 47M tokens and proposed buyback-and-burn as whales have recorded losses and leaders have emphasized community votes on spending.   The post WLFI Jumps 8% as Justin Sun’s Entire Allocation Frozen – $400M Gained appeared first on Cryptonews.

World Liberty Financial (WLFI) blocklisted a wallet address belonging to Justin Sun, preventing the Tron founder from selling his 595.109 million WLFI tokens worth nearly $104 million. The blocklisting affects both unlocked and locked tokens in Sun’s wallet, according to on-chain data. The wallet address is: “0x5AB26169051d0D96217949ADb91E86e51a5FDA74” Sun invested $75 million total in WLFI, making […] The post World Liberty Financial blocklists Justin Sun’s address holding 595 million WLFI appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Justin Sun’s WLFI token address was blacklisted after a $9 million transfer on Thursday, raising concerns over trading restrictions as prices tumble. Tron founder Justin Sun’s World Liberty Financial (WLFI) token address was blacklisted on Thursday after transferring 50 million WLFI tokens to crypto exchange HTX. Onchain data from Nansen and Arkham shows the address was flagged shortly after a $9 million transaction. The blacklisting fueled speculation that WLFI was restricting certain users from selling tokens and pressuring prices during the first week of public trading. On Thursday, Sun responded to speculation in an X thread, saying in a translated post that his address had only carried out a few routine exchange deposit tests with very small amounts of WLFI tokens before creating address dispersion. Read more

Ether eyes $6,000 as exchange supply falls; Justin Sun sues Bloomberg, seeks temporary restraining order: Hodler’s Digest SharpLink Gaming, an online gaming company with the second-largest corporate Ether treasury, announced a net loss of $103 million for the second quarter of 2025, driven by a paper loss from accounting for liquid staked Ether (LsETH). The loss marks a steep drop from a $500,000 loss in the same period of 2024 a year-over-year change of -25,980%. According to a Friday announcement, SharpLink now holds 728,804 Ether worth approximately $3.5 billion at this writing. The only publicly traded company with more ETH is BitMine Immersion Technologies, which holds a little more than 1.15 million ETH worth approximately $5.1 billion. Of SharpLinks Q2 loss, $87.8 million or 85% is related to the companys LsETH. A SharpLink representative told Cointelegraph that the company still has all its LsETH and that the impairment reflects accounting rules, not a sale or loss of ETH. Read more

Tron founder Justin Sun has filed a lawsuit against Bloomberg, accusing the media outlet of unlawfully disclosing his private financial information in its Billionaires Index profile. In an Aug. 11 court filing, the crypto billionaire alleged that Bloomberg intended to “recklessly and improperly” publish highly confidential and proprietary details about his crypto holdings. He argued […] The post Bloomberg faces lawsuit for disclosing Justin Sun’s TRON token holdings appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The Tron founder said it has been a long-time dream to travel to space and reflected on the fragility of the planet following his return. Justin Sun, founder of the layer-1 Tron blockchain network, returned safely from a commercial spaceflight on Saturday, alongside five other crew members aboard Blue Origin mission NS-34. The other crew members included the founder of venture capital firm Alpha Funds, J.D. Russell, entrepreneur Gökhan Erdem, real estate investor Arvi Bahal, meteorologist Deborah Martorell, and philanthropist and teacher Lionel Pitchford.  Sun placed a $28 million bid for a seat aboard Blue Origin spaceflight NS-34 in 2021 and won the first reservation for the scheduled mission. Read more

Blue Origin announced Justin Sun as one of the passengers for its NS-34 mission.

Geneva, Switzerland – July 22, 2025 – Justin Sun, founder of TRON and one of the most recognizable figures in crypto, is set to make history as the youngest Chinese-born commercial astronaut and the first Forbes-cover crypto entrepreneur to travel to space aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard. This mission is the 14th human flight for […] The post Justin Sun to Become Youngest Chinese Commercial Astronaut with Blue Origin’s New Shepard appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The Blue Origin mission is expected to move forward with six crew members after a 2021 bid from the Tron founder. Blue Origin, the privately-owned space technology company launched by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, said Tron founder Justin Sun will be joining the crew of its next mission, which is expected to launch in a matter of weeks. In a Monday notice, Blue Origin said Sun would join five others as part of the company’s 34th mission using its suborbital rocket system New Shepard, named after the first American in space, Alan Shepard. According to the company, Sun placed a bid for the first seat on the mission in 2021, contributing $28 million. The 2021 notice suggested that Sun would personally pick the other five crew members, which the company said would be from “the TRON DAO community, comprising of long-term holders of TRX, BTT, JST, SUN, NFT, and WIN.” However, a spokesperson for the Tron founder told Cointelegraph he had not chosen the crew, which included a real estate investor, a businessman, a journ...

Tron will go public in the US through a reverse merger with SRM Entertainment, a Nasdaq-listed company. Eric Trump, a son of US President Donald Trump, has denied reports that he will be involved in blockchain network Tron’s intent to pursue a public offering in the United States, though he had positive things to say about the project’s founder, Justin Sun. “I’m the biggest fan of Tron,” Trump said on social media, adding that he admires Sun and considers him a “great friend and icon in the crypto space.” However, he denied an earlier report by the Financial Times claiming that he would be part of Sun’s new public venture.  Read more

The move by Nasdaq-listed SRM Entertainment comes amid a regulatory thaw between the US Securities and Exchange Commission and Tron founder Sun. Nasdaq-listed SRM Entertainment is set to launch a Tron corporate treasury of up to $210 million and change its name to Tron Inc., the company announced on Monday. According to the announcement, SRM entered a securities purchase agreement with a private investor for a $100 million equity investment to fund its Tron (TRX) treasury strategy. Tron founder Justin Sun will join the company as an adviser. As part of the deal, SRM Entertainment will issue 100,000 shares of its Series B convertible preferred stock. This stock can be converted into a total of 200 million shares of common stock at a conversion price of $0.50 per share, and 220 million warrants to acquire up to an aggregate of 220 million shares of common stock at an exercise price of $0.50 per share. Read more

TRON founder Justin Sun met Donald Trump Jr. at Bitcoin 2025—and TRX surged on the buzz. The post Justin Sun’s Trump Jr. Photo-Op Fuels TRX Rally—Is Political Clout the Secret Weapon for Crypto’s Next Surge? appeared first on Cryptonews.

Members of Congress have pressed SEC chair Paul Atkins on why the agency has paused its fraud case against Justin Sun while the crypto figure backs a Trump-linked meme coin, asking if political ties are at play. Atkins has said the inquiry remains active and promised clearer crypto rules ahead. The post SEC Chair Grilled Over Trump Meme Coin and Justin Sun’s $75M Ties – Is Crypto Regulation About to Shift? appeared first on Cryptonews.

With his reported TRUMP memecoin purchases, Tron founder Justin Sun will have spent more than $90 million on crypto ventures tied to the US president and his family. After weeks of speculation among crypto enthusiasts and news outlets, Tron founder Justin Sun has claimed he owns the wallet that purchased the largest amount of Donald Trump’s memecoin, allowing him to qualify for a dinner and reception with the US president. In a May 19 X post, Sun said he had received an invitation to attend Trump’s dinner at his golf club outside Washington, DC, as part of a reward for the top 220 memecoin holders. The Tron founder claimed he controlled the top wallet on the TRUMP token leaderboard under the username “Sun,” which held roughly $19 million worth of the memecoin at a price of $13.20. According to Sun, he plans to network at the May 22 memecoin dinner, “talk crypto,” and “discuss the future” of the industry. It’s unclear why the Tron founder chose to announce his planned presence at the event now, when the leader...