Tether vs Circle: Two Very Different Freezing Strategies 🧊
📊 2023–2025 Data (AMLBot):
• Tether ($USDT ): 7,268 addresses frozen | $3.29B
– 53% on the Tron network
• Circle (USDC): 372 addresses frozen | $109M
That’s a 30× difference in scale.
🔍 Key Differences:
• Tether takes a proactive approach, working with 275 law enforcement agencies, freezing suspicious addresses early and using a destroy-and-reissue process to return funds to victims.
• Circle freezes funds only with court or regulatory orders and does not support reissuance.
Two stablecoin giants — two very different enforcement philosophies.
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