The Irony of WLFI: Early Investor Says the Only Way to Save Your Money Is to Short the Damn Thing

World Liberty Financial ($WLFI), the cryptocurrency project launched by US President Donald Trump and his family, hit the market with big dreams. Reality has been less kind. The brutal crypto winter since October has hammered WLFI's price along with everything else, leaving investors staring at losses they'd rather forget.

Now one early investor—going by X (bx1818)—has a take that's equal parts bold and brutal: the only way to recover your principal is to short WLFI. Yep, you read that right. In what might be the most unhinged alpha ever posted, this degen is essentially telling fellow bagholders: "The only way out is to bet against your own bags." Peak crypto logic.

Another user went even further, warning that anyone who jumped into WLFI's DeFi offerings chasing those juicy interest rates might watch their entire investment vanish. The claim? The team has apparently pulled all funds from their pools. Ouch. Nothing says "trust the process" like watching liquidity vanish faster than your motivation to check your portfolio at 3 AM.

This user drew an unflattering parallel to Curve (CRV)'s ongoing decline, essentially telling WLFI holders: don't make the same mistakes. For those who missed the memo, CRV has been on a one-way ticket to nowhere for months, and apparently WLFI holders are now getting the same energy. Nothing like being compared to a project that's basically a cautionary tale at this point.

For those keeping score at home, WLFI is down over 6% in the last 24 hours and currently trading at $0.091. At this point, the only thing dropping faster than WLFI's price is everyone's expectations. But hey, who needs green candles when you have this much entertainment?

*This is not investment advice.