Have you ever thought about whether selling U will freeze your bank card, and can USDT also be frozen on the blockchain? The answer is yes.



According to the latest data from Whale Alert, on January 11th, Tether directly took action against five wallet addresses on the Tron blockchain, freezing a total of 182 million USDT in one go. This happened on the same day, involving wallets ranging from 12 million to 50 million dollars. Such large-scale multi-wallet restrictions in a single day are not common on the Tron chain.

There is actually a background behind this — Tether officially launched a wallet freezing policy in December 2023, mainly to comply with the Specially Designated Nationals list requirements from the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control. In other words, they are acting according to regulations, managing high-risk addresses in a compliant manner.

This incident is quite interesting; on one hand, it demonstrates the centralized nature of stablecoins — the issuer indeed has the ability to freeze on-chain assets; on the other hand, it also reflects that under compliance pressure, Tether is strengthening its risk control measures. Users holding large amounts of USDT should pay attention to such policy developments.
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MoneyBurnerSocietyvip
· 6h ago
$182 million can be frozen instantly. What is my little U worth? I should have gotten used to it long ago. That's why I insist on diversifying risk. No matter how many wallets I have, I don't dare to put everything into USDT. The daily life of a true professional leek: stacking U while researching freezing policies. Under compliance pressure, no one's U is really U. Tether wields this scalpel quite ruthlessly. I bet five dollars that next time there's a freeze, no one will be aware of it. Remember those who claimed to be completely decentralized—how are they doing now?
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TheMemefathervip
· 6h ago
Wow, 182 million directly frozen. This is the cost of centralization. USDT is not truly decentralized at all.
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ContractFreelancervip
· 6h ago
Damn, this is true centralization, and they still talk about decentralization.
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DegenRecoveryGroupvip
· 6h ago
Here we go again. USDT has long ceased to be truly decentralized; frankly, it's still a centralized thing.
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SerLiquidatedvip
· 6h ago
Frozen 182 million in one go, this is the cost of centralization. Still dare to talk about decentralization?
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BrokeBeansvip
· 6h ago
Wow, 182 million USD just froze instantly. Is this still called decentralization?
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