Tether says it has frozen $4.2 billion of its stablecoin over crime links
El Salvador-based stablecoin issuer Tether said it has frozen about $4.2 billion of its crypto tokens over links to “illicit activity”, mostly in the past three years, as authorities around the world try to crack down on crypto-related crime.
The world’s largest stablecoin company, which has more than $180 billion of its dollar-pegged token in circulation, up from around $70 billion three years ago, is able to remotely freeze its tokens held in users’ crypto wallets when asked to do so by law enforcement.
