US Freezes $344M in USDT Tied to Iran, Tether Blacklists Wallets
Treasury's 'Economic Fury' campaign pulls Tether directly into the sanctions stack — the freeze happened on-chain in USDT first, with OFAC's wallet designations following the next day.
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Treasury's 'Economic Fury' campaign pulls Tether directly into the sanctions stack — the freeze happened on-chain in USDT first, with OFAC's wallet designations following the next day.
The OTC block is small relative to Bitmine's 4.97M ETH stash, but it shows a treasury-firm bid still live while peers have stepped back — and routes fresh capital straight to the Foundation.
The probe's closure lifts the Tillis hold that had blocked Kevin Warsh's confirmation — and Kalshi's Warsh-confirmation odds jumped from ~30% to 80%+ on the news, signaling traders see a near-term…
A $75B raise at a $1.75T valuation, layered onto $240B+ from OpenAI and Anthropic, would pull risk-on capital from the same pool that has been bidding crypto higher through the spot-ETF era.
The administration's 9.9% position, converted from CHIPS Act grants at $20.47 in August, is now worth roughly $35.4 billion — an $26.5B unrealized gain that recasts industrial policy as an active…
Greenspan agrees the bottom is in but says the real driver ahead is central banks adding BTC to reserves alongside gold — and the US strategic reserve, El Salvador's daily buys, and 300K US-held…
Exodus CEO JP Richardson frames the setup: Morgan Stanley, Schwab and BlackRock keep adding to spot ETFs while retail capitulates, and the 20-week moving average is back at a level that's triggered…
Manuel Bllye — the analyst who nailed the October bearish call before the slide to $60K — says his model has now flipped and Ethereum confirming Bitcoin's higher highs is what seals the read.
St. Louis Fed's Musalem now sees core inflation near 3% for 2026 and rates potentially unchanged — the bullish case for BTC's liquidity tailwind is suddenly conditional on Hormuz traffic normalising…
Chart structures for ETH and the ex-top-10 altcoin index are nearly identical, both sitting ~1,600 days off the 2021 high with prior cycle drawdowns of 82-94% already priced in — the upside math is…
BIS chief Pablo Hernandez de Cos just called global cooperation on stablecoins "critically important" — the language of systemic risk, not investor protection.
Binance alone cleared $1.09T in 2026 volume — and the BIS says the platforms with the deepest books are exactly the ones behaving like unregulated banks, with no capital buffers, no deposit…
There are zero FCA-registered peer-to-peer crypto traders in Britain — and eight cease-and-desist letters later, the line between an occasional swap and an unlicensed exchange just got harder to…
Spot has done the work — 11% this month, $2,330 high, a 10-day ETF inflow streak — but the $322M pile-up at Deribit's $3,200 calls shows derivatives are now pricing the next leg, while leverage is…
Raw dollar losses look similar — roughly $2.6B in TradFi and $2.8B in DeFi in 2025 — but volume-adjusted, DeFi loses at an 86x higher rate, and the marketing damage may outlast the math.
Spot Bitcoin ETF holders absorbed a $1.32B March inflow reversal and $2.42B in April additions while Bitcoin fell to $78K, and the 99.5% retention rate on a 20% drop points to a structurally…
Litecoin executed a chain reorganization covering more than three hours of transaction history to neutralize its first…
The $404K Maduro contract trade is the proof-of-concept the CFTC needed to assert that event contracts sit inside its antifraud perimeter — the first Eddie Murphy Rule case of its kind.
The CFTC has filed suit against New York, marking the fourth state the agency has sued in just three weeks in an…
The US government has sanctioned a network of Iran-linked crypto wallets, including addresses holding $344 million in…