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WLFI insiders borrowed $150 million against nearly all supply and Dolomite’s liquidity is now dangerously trapped.
Oluwapelumi Adejumo 7 min read 
Trump’s crypto alliance is facing a credibility test as stalled policy, meme coin blowback, and political baggage start to outweigh the trade.
Is Trump's World Liberty Financial the next FTX-like black swan trigger, as Deja Vu hits crypto community?
WLFI says it is only the interface. Dolomite runs the lending logic. That split may explain how a Trump-linked token ended up inside a structure that could leave outside lenders exposed.
The sale shows staking never replaced treasury offloads and keeps sell-pressure questions alive.
The bigger risk after Drift may be the access attackers gain before a protocol knows it has a problem.
Polymarket’s new token may not cut USDC demand, but it could make that demand harder to see and easier to misread.
Aave still leads DeFi lending, but contributor exits have turned scale into an execution test.
Regulated players are taking blockchain finance on-chain, forcing DeFi to prove its risk is worth the upside.
