{"id":588414,"date":"2026-04-23T20:52:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T20:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/tether-freezes-344m-usdt-stablecoins-at-us-law-enforcement-request\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T20:52:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T20:52:58","slug":"tether-freezes-344m-usdt-stablecoins-at-us-law-enforcement-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/tether-freezes-344m-usdt-stablecoins-at-us-law-enforcement-request\/","title":{"rendered":"Tether freezes $344M USDt stablecoins at US law enforcement request"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Tether<\/p>\n

The stablecoin issuer cited “activity tied to unlawful conduct\u201d but no further explanation for the freezing of the dollar-pegged tokens held in two wallet addresses.<\/p>\n

Tether, the company that issues the USDt dollar-pegged stablecoin, said Thursday that it froze more than $344 million in USDt at the request of US law enforcement officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The company froze two wallet addresses at the request of US authorites for \u201cactivity tied to unlawful conduct,\u201d according to Tether\u2019s announcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tether did not provide a specific reason for the asset freezes, but said that it freezes wallet addresses tied to \u201csanctions evasion, criminal networks, or other illicit activity.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The stablecoin issuer cited “activity tied to unlawful conduct\u201d but no further explanation for the freezing of the dollar-pegged tokens held in two wallet addresses. Tether, the company that issues the USDt dollar-pegged stablecoin, said Thursday that it froze more than $344 million in USDt at the request of US law enforcement officials.\u00a0 The company […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-588414","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}