Can Tether Freeze Stolen USDT, and Who Can Recover the Funds?
A token-level freeze can stop a transfer. It does not establish who owns the balance, reverse an old transaction or guarantee a victim receives a dollar. RESEARCH CUTOFF 20 OCTOBER…
Bo Hines Held Nxum Stake as Tether Paid $6.3 Million During US Stablecoin Law Push
Former White House cryptocurrency adviser Bo Hines retained an ownership stake in a consulting company that received approximately $6.3 million from stablecoin issuer Tether while he was helping advance major…
Conduit Sues Tether Over $2.76M USDT Freeze, Challenging Stablecoin Issuers’ Power Over Corporate Cash
Cross-border payments company Conduit Technology has sued Tether over approximately $2.76 million of USDT that it says has been frozen for more than a year, turning a relatively small stablecoin…
Circle vs. Tether Is No Longer Just a Stablecoin Battle
Distribution, regulation, payments, networks, reserves, integrations and ecosystem strategy are pushing the two companies toward very different versions of digital-dollar infrastructure. Research current through October 4, 2026 Research thesis: The…
Tether Says EQIBank Exposure Is Below 0.034% After US Seizes $84M From Capstone
Tether says its financial exposure to a bank connected to a U.S. civil forfeiture case is limited, after federal prosecutors seized approximately $84.2 million in cash and cryptocurrency from accounts…
Tether Freezes $3.75 Million Across 18 Wallets as Post-Blacklist Transfers Raise Screening Questions
Eighteen cryptocurrency addresses holding approximately $3.75 million in USDT were blacklisted on September 17, with the overwhelming majority of the frozen funds sitting on Tron, according to on-chain monitoring data…
Tether Blacklists 15 Tron Wallets Holding $3.3 Million in USDT
Largest Wallet Held More Than $1.1 Million When Freeze Executed Tether’s USDT contract blacklisted 15 addresses on the Tron network holding a combined $3.31 million in a concentrated series of…
Tether, TRON and TRM Labs Freeze $450 Million in Crypto Linked to Illicit Activity
T3 Financial Crime Unit Freezes $450 Million in Illicit Crypto Assets Since Launch A joint crypto enforcement initiative formed by Tether, TRON and TRM Labs said it has frozen more…
Tether’s Treasury Strategy: How USDT Became a Top Buyer of T-Bills
Tether now holds more U.S. Treasury bills than Germany. Read that again. A stablecoin issuer — not a sovereign state, not a central bank — is sitting on a bigger…
Inside Tether’s Investment Strategy: From Stablecoin Issuer to Capital Allocator
For most of its existence, Tether has been viewed almost exclusively through a single lens: the issuer of USDT, the world’s most widely used stablecoin. That framing is now incomplete.…