Sameer Group CEO Syed Sameer is offering to broker a private deal to unfreeze Justin Sun’s blacklisted WLFI tokens, drawing backlash from retail holders shut out of negotiations.
Summary
- Sameer Group CEO Syed Sameer has publicly offered to broker a deal to unfreeze Justin Sun’s blacklisted WLFI tokens.
- The outreach comes after Sun filed a federal lawsuit against World Liberty Financial in California over allegedly locked tokens.
- Retail investors are already pushing back, calling the proposal unfair if it benefits Sun but not the broader WLFI community.
Syed Sameer, CEO of Sameer Group LLC, has put himself forward as an institutional mediator in the escalating fight between Justin Sun and World Liberty Financial (WLFI) over frozen WLFI tokens.
Tagging Sun directly, Sameer wrote that as “one of the largest institutional $WLFI holders alongside Aryam 1 & Aqua 1 ($300M+ combined), we are ready and willing to broker a fair resolution to your situation and have your tokens unlocked.”
The offer landed hours after Sun announced, “Today, I filed a lawsuit in California federal court against World Liberty Financial to protect my legal rights as a holder of $WLFI tokens,” stressing that he “remain[s] an ardent supporter of President Trump and his Administration’s efforts to make America crypto friendly.”
Sameer framed his proposal as a fast track compared with courtroom escalation, saying his UAE institutional partners could “facilitate this equitably and quickly through our established channels while avoiding a lengthy litigation process,” and inviting Sun to discuss terms via DM, Signal, or email.
Crucially, Sameer later clarified that the intervention targets blacklisting, not vesting mechanics.
Responding to community criticism, he wrote, “This is specifically about unfreezing / whitelisting Sun’s tokens – they are blacklisted and not just locked,” and then corrected himself: “Sorry – I meant unfrozen / reversing the blacklisting of his tokens. This has nothing to do with locks / vesting schedule.”
That distinction hasn’t calmed the backlash. One user argued, “That’s unfair resolution who will mediate for other community members their token are unjustly locked with authoritarian governance,” while another said, “The proposal is horrible 2 year cliff is not needed,” accusing WLFI’s vesting setup of being a “scam” that “no one in the community deserves nor voted for.”
Others zoomed out to the optics. Critics mocked the spectacle of “the world biggest scammer” being scammed and institutions trying to clean it up; another replied that WLFI “wouldn’t need to contact 3rd part intermediaries if WLFI kept their promise… Unlocked = unlocked Not back door locked via hidden code…,” highlighting fears of hidden control logic in the contract.
Sameer, who describes himself on X as managing “$650M+ AUM” and an institutional partner of the Solana Foundation, is effectively offering a private, big‑holder backchannel to resolve Sun’s claim while the rest of the WLFI community watches from the cheap seats. Whether that becomes a template — where large, politically connected token holders negotiate bespoke fixes while smaller investors are left to litigate or cope — will decide if this episode reads as pragmatic damage control or as the latest example of two‑tier justice in crypto.
