TREE NEWS update: Circle and Tether blacklisted a wallet labeled “Bitget Exploiter 8,” freezing about $318,000 in USDC and USDT tied to the Bitget hack. The attacker had already swapped most of the funds into ETH, which the issuers cannot freeze, so only a fraction of the stolen money was locked.
Circle and Tether Freeze $318K in Stablecoins Tied to Bitget Hack
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AI take
This episode illustrates the structural limits of issuer-level freezing: once stolen stablecoins are swapped into a permissionless asset like ETH, the recovery lever disappears, so blacklisting tends to capture leftovers rather than the bulk of a haul. It matters for exchanges and law-enforcement teams that rely on issuer cooperation as a recovery path, and for anyone assuming centralized stablecoin controls offer comprehensive protection. Whether attackers keep routing proceeds through ETH before issuers can act is the open question.
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