{"id":995517,"date":"2026-02-28T08:24:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T02:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=995517"},"modified":"2026-02-28T08:41:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T03:11:17","slug":"tether-says-it-has-frozen-4-2-billion-of-its-stablecoin-over-crime-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/28\/tether-says-it-has-frozen-4-2-billion-of-its-stablecoin-over-crime-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Tether says it has frozen $4.2 billion of its stablecoin over crime links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>El Salvador-based stablecoin issuer Tether said it has frozen about $4.2 billion of its crypto tokens over links to &#8220;illicit activity&#8221;, mostly in the past three years, as authorities around the world try to crack down on crypto-related crime. <\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s largest stablecoin company, which has more than $180 \u200cbillion of \u2060its \u2060dollar-pegged token in circulation, up from around $70 billion three years ago, is able \u200bto remotely freeze its tokens held in users&#8217; crypto wallets when asked to \u200bdo so by law enforcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Salvador-based stablecoin issuer Tether said it has frozen about $4.2 billion of its crypto tokens over links to &#8220;illicit activity&#8221;, mostly in the past three years, as authorities around the world try to crack down on crypto-related crime. The world&#8217;s largest stablecoin company, which has more than $180 \u200cbillion of \u2060its \u2060dollar-pegged token in circulation, up from around $70 billion three years ago, is able \u200bto remotely freeze its tokens held in users&#8217; crypto wallets when asked to \u200bdo so by law enforcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}