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29/12/25 03:17 UTC-04

Tether freezes USDT stablecoins far more often than Circle

The issuer of Tether (USDT), the company Tether, freezes stablecoins far more often than Circle, the firm that issues USD Coin (USDC).

Employees of the AMLBot organization reported that from the beginning of 2023 through December 2025:

  • Tether blocked USDT worth $3.29 billion, while Circle froze USDC worth $109 million;
  • Tether blacklisted 7,268 cryptocurrency wallet addresses, whereas Circle listed only 372.

Thus, during the specified period, Tether acted more aggressively, blocking 30 times more stablecoins and imposing sanctions almost 20 times more frequently. This can partly be explained by the high popularity of USDT, which surpasses USDC in market capitalization by more than two times.

Growth in the number of blocked cryptocurrency wallets on the Ethereum blockchain that store USDT

The TRON (TRX) blockchain is highly popular in Asia, which is why more than half of the frozen USDT, worth $1.75 billion, accounts for coins issued on this network. In particular, among the blocked stablecoins were digital assets worth $29.6 million belonging to the fraudulent organization Huione Group from Cambodia.

In addition, this year Tether froze USDT worth $27 million held by users of the Russian exchange Garantex, against which the governments of the United States and the European Union imposed sanctions for money laundering. As a result of the stablecoin freeze, the trading platform first suspended operations and later shut down completely.

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Editor: Pereyidenko Ihor
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