{"id":96462,"date":"2026-04-23T20:12:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T17:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/?p=96462"},"modified":"2026-04-23T20:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T17:15:11","slug":"tether-freezes-344-million-in-usdt-at-us-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/tether-freezes-344-million-in-usdt-at-us-request\/","title":{"rendered":"Tether Freezes $344 Million in USDT at US Request"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tether <a href=\"https:\/\/tether.io\/news\/tether-supports-freeze-of-more-than-344-million-in-usdt-in-coordination-with-ofac-and-u-s-law-enforcement\/\">announced<\/a> the freezing of $344 million in USDT across two wallets linked by US authorities to illegal activities.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;The freezing of funds followed information provided to Tether by US authorities [\u2026]. This has become a routine part of the firm&#8217;s response to legitimate requests from the US and other countries,&#8221; the release stated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Representatives of the issuing company noted that the tracking of funds was conducted in cooperation with the US Department of the Treasury&#8217;s Office of Foreign Assets Control.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;USDT is not a safe haven for illegal activities,&#8221; emphasized Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino, commenting on the situation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is not the first time the company has cooperated with US authorities. In February, Tether <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/tether-freezes-4-2-billion-in-illicit-funds-to-date\">received thanks<\/a> from the Department of Justice for its assistance in thwarting a &#8220;pig butchering&#8221; scam. During an operation in North Carolina, funds amounting to nearly $61 million were seized from the perpetrators.<\/p>\n<p>At that time, the issuer reported a total of $4.2 billion blocked in connection with illegal activities.<\/p>\n<p>USDT remains the largest stablecoin with a market capitalization of $69 billion. Its closest competitor, USDC, has a figure of just over $15 billion.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-08d01658977ca775-2565458771944881.webp\" alt=\"image\" class=\"wp-image-278914\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/categories\/stablecoins\">CoinGecko<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In April, the security council of the <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-is-a-layer%e2%80%912-solution-in-blockchain\">L2<\/a> network Arbitrum <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/arbitrum-freezes-30766-eth-amid-probe-into-kelp-hack\">took<\/a> &#8220;emergency measures&#8221; and blocked 30,766 ETH stolen from the <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/kelp-protocol-loses-293-million-following-cross-chain-bridge-attack\">Kelp protocol<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tether announced the freezing of $344 million in USDT across two wallets linked by US authorities to illegal activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"Tether announced the freezing of $344 million in USDT linked to illegal activities.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1444,807,1245],"class_list":["post-96462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-law-enforcement","tag-stablecoins","tag-tether-usdt"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"29","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"Tether announced the freezing of $344 million in USDT linked to illegal activities.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96464,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96462\/revisions\/96464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}