{"id":668741,"date":"2026-10-09T19:52:39","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T19:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/09\/thorchain-exec-accuses-tether-of-temporarily-freezing-usdt-vaults\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T19:52:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T19:52:39","slug":"thorchain-exec-accuses-tether-of-temporarily-freezing-usdt-vaults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/09\/thorchain-exec-accuses-tether-of-temporarily-freezing-usdt-vaults\/","title":{"rendered":"THORChain exec accuses Tether of temporarily freezing USDT vaults"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"THORChain<\/p>\n

Chad Barraford, technical co-founder of the network, said that the funds were frozen and then unfrozen without explanation. <\/p>\n

THORChain technical co-founder Chad Barraford accused stablecoin issuer Tether of blacklisting the network\u2019s USDt (USDT) vaults without explanation, then unfreezing them hours later.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a Friday X post, Barraford said<\/a> that Tether had blacklisted THORChain vault addresses, freezing about a combined 1.45 million USDT in the network\u2019s funds across four wallets. He reported about two hours later than trading would resume after the company unfroze all the addresses.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t know why this choice was made and have had no comms with USDT before this action and are actively reaching out to have a conversation,\u201d said<\/a> Barraford before the addresses were unfrozen. \u201cWe hope that this was made in error \/ misunderstanding.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Chad Barraford, technical co-founder of the network, said that the funds were frozen and then unfrozen without explanation. THORChain technical co-founder Chad Barraford accused stablecoin issuer Tether of blacklisting the network\u2019s USDt (USDT) vaults without explanation, then unfreezing them hours later.\u00a0 In a Friday X post, Barraford said that Tether had blacklisted THORChain vault addresses, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":668742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-668741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668741","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=668741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}