Tether Enforces Freeze On $12 Million In Tron Funds Over Illicit Activity
Tether acted swiftly Sunday when it froze $12.3 million worth of USDT on the Tron blockchain. Based on reports from Tronscan, this step targets wallets allegedly linked to money laundering and sanctions evasion. The company has not issued a public statement yet, but on‑chain data left little room for doubt. Related Reading: Amid Bitcoin Hype, Seasoned Trader Predicts Sudden Drop To This Level T3 Financial Crime Unit Shows Muscle According to Tether, its T3 Financial Crime Unit (FCU) partners with Tron and TRM Labs to track suspect transactions in real time. Since late 2024, the FCU has....
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Tether has thus far only frozen USDT funds held in private wallets when requested by law enforcement. According to blockchain transaction data provided by WhaleAlert.io on Nov. 10, Tether appears to have frozen 46,360,701 USDT ($46,274,472) owned by troubled cryptocurrency exchange FTX in its Tron blockchain wallet. The move comes one day after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Justice Department began investigating FTX over its liquidity crisis. A spokesperson from Tether stated on Oct. 11 that the firm only freezes privately held wallets when it firm receives a....
Cryptocurrency exchange Kucoin may have been hacked for $150 million in bitcoin and multiple ERC20 tokens. The Singapore-based exchange confirmed the September 25 security breach, but did not disclose the amount stolen. “Bitcoin, ERC-20 and, other tokens in Kucoin’s hot wallets were transferred out of the exchange,” said Kucoin in an update on Saturday. Meanwhile, Bitfinex and Tether, issuers of the centralized stablecoin USDT, immediately froze a combined $33 million worth of USDT suspected to be part of the funds looted in the Kucoin hack – an action that has....
Seven days ago, Bitcoin.com News reported on the Tron DAO Reserve purchasing $38 million in tron to safeguard the network’s stablecoin USDD. Since then and since the terrausd (UST) de-pegging event, the Tron DAO Reserve has continued to purchase large quantities of digital assets to bolster the project’s reserves. In addition to the tron purchases, the organization has been adding stablecoins and bitcoin into the mix as well.
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Tether, the largest stablecoin by market cap, has reached a milestone by issuing 30 billion USDT on top of the Tron blockchain. While the stablecoin is now present on several chains, including BSC (Binance Smart Chain) most of it is now on Tron due to the blockchain’s low transaction fees, which make using it easy and cheap. Tether Reaches 30 Billion USDT Issued on Tron Tether, the biggest stablecoin in the market, has reached a volume of 30 billion USDT issued as TRC20 tokens on the Tron blockchain, being this the highest the stablecoin has issued on top of any chain so far. The....
KuCoin reported at least $129M of the affected funds are ‘safe.’ Following news of a security breach resulting in the loss of more than $200 million worth of tokens on KuCoin, many projects quickly reacted to prevent users’ holdings from being moved off to other exchanges. Speaking to Cointelegraph, KuCoin Global CEO Johnny Lyu said at least $129 million of the tokens affected in the breach and the Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), and ERC20 hot wallets impacted were “safe” or in a position to be recovered. Though reports initially stated hackers got away with $150 million in tokens, new....