Many people see my case against World Liberty @worldlibertyfi as a business dispute.

On the surface, it is — $45 million, 4 billion tokens, a contract.

But months into this fight, its true nature has become clear to me: this is a fight over the founding principle of blockchain itself.

Our generation built this industry on one simple conviction:

that every person should truly own what is theirs, regardless of who they are, what they believe, or where they were born, and without needing anyone's permission.

Your keys, your coins.

That is the first principle of everything we do.

What this case has exposed is a betrayal of that principle:

a company with "Liberty" in its name secretly embedded, in its own contract, the power to freeze any user's assets at will — without disclosure, without governance, without any process at all.

And within days of my tokens unlocking, they used it.