THELOGICALINDIAN - Stablecoin issuer Binding has blacklisted 40 Ethereum addresses captivation millions of dollars of the binding cryptocurrency 24 of which were banned this year This award follows the Centre Consortium demography a agnate activity due to a appeal by law enforcement
Tether Frozen in 40 Addresses
Tether has banned 40 Ethereum addresses captivation millions of dollars of the stablecoin USDT, according to an assay by Ethereum researcher Philippe Castonguay who aggregate his allegation on Dune Analytics. Banned addresses cannot accept or accelerate the cryptocurrency.
The 40 addresses “have been banned from application USDT on Ethereum as of now,” Castonguay explained. According to the researcher, one abode was arctic in 2017, eight in 2018, seven in 2019, and 24 in 2020 so far. At columnist time, the latest abode on his account was banned on Friday.
“Tether commonly assists law administration in their investigations,” Stuart Hoegner, accepted admonition at Bitfinex, Tether’s sister company, told The Block. “Through the benumb abode feature, Tether has been able to advice users and exchanges to save and balance tens of millions of dollars baseborn from them by hackers.” The advertisement added that its assay shows that $5.51 actor account of USDT is captivated in addresses blacklisted this year.
Tether is not the alone one freezing its coin. This week, the Centre Consortium blacklisted an abode with $100,000 account of the USDC stablecoin in acknowledgment to a appeal from law enforcement. Castonguay fabricated a agnate Dune Analytics dashboard to accumulate clue of addresses banned from application USDC, which so far alone includes one address.
Meanwhile, the New York Supreme Court’s Appellate Division ruled on Thursday that State Attorney General Letitia James can abide her investigations into entities abaft tether. Bitfinex and Binding are additionally complex in addition ongoing lawsuit.
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