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Tether Blacklists USDT Wallets Tied to CoinDCX Outflows

Tether blacklisted USDT wallets linked to outflows from CoinDCX, with AMLBot estimating the frozen sum at about $2.2 million. The move follows CoinDCX’s acknowledgment of losses tied to a failed process for securing deposits to retired addresses.

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The significance here is less the size of the freeze than the precedent: Tether's blacklist is being used to ring-fence funds tied to an exchange's own operational failure, not a hack or sanctioned entity. That widens the perceived reach of issuer-level control over USDT, a point of friction for venues and users who treat stablecoin balances as bearer assets. Whether the freeze is challenged or reversed, and how CoinDCX handles remediation for affected depositors, are the open questions worth watching.

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