OKX has filed with the SEC to launch tokenized-stock trading in the US, Bloomberg reported, aiming at buyers barred from its 70-plus ticker offshore line. The SEC's new exemption admits only tokens with dividends and votes, so the synthetic product it sells abroad would need rebuilding first.
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Tether-backed Utexo plans to issue USDT on Bitcoin and police the nearly $190 billion stablecoin there with a coin blacklist in place of address freezes. Utexo cannot freeze those coins, so a block holds only where exchanges and bridges check the list.
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Philippines' Court of Appeals has frozen 116 assets tied to an unnamed lawmaker, 25 of them crypto wallets, in a flood-control plunder probe. For exchanges and custodians, what the order means depends on how much those wallets hold.
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Open USD launched with Stripe distribution and $468 million of backed supply, about 0.15% of a dollar-stablecoin market led by USDT and USDC. Its share grows only if Stripe customers move payments and treasury balances into it beyond the liquidity its founders seeded.
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Iran's central bank plans to block rial accounts at some crypto exchanges, after capping Tether purchases in September at 2,000 USDT per user a day. Losing those accounts would strip the exchanges of the local-currency deposits their core business converts into crypto.
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Senate Democratic staff found 84% of 846 Iran-linked sanctioned wallets moved almost only in Tether's USDT. Most came from Israel's list, and any penalty rests with a Treasury and Justice Department that Senator Blumenthal says have enforced nothing.
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Stripe-owned Bridge is issuing the OUSD stablecoin on four blockchains, with reserves held at BlackRock, Lead Bank and BNY. Open Standard has not said how much has been issued, so its list of more than 200 partner businesses is the only size figure on record.
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Belarus's Hi-Tech Park supervisory board has registered the country's first two crypto banks under January's Decree No. 19. Neither can run at full scale until the National Bank adds them to its registry. The National Bank is also one of the two supervisors each bank will answer to.
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Senate staff say Tether froze 5 of 39 Hezbollah-linked wallets Israel named in 2023 while $34.6 million left the rest. Treasury and the Justice Department can act on that freeze record more readily than on the report's 84% USDT share when they answer Blumenthal by Oct. 9.
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Sen. Richard Blumenthal's report says Tether left 34 of 39 Hezbollah-flagged wallets open for nine months as $34.6 million moved through. It reaches Treasury about four months before the secretary can bar US platforms from trading a noncompliant issuer's token.
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Tokenized Treasury and money-market funds rose from $2.99 to $11.39 per $100 of stablecoins in two years, according to Crypto Briefing. Whether three big issuers own most of that growth depends on which estimate of the category's size is right.
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DOJ is seeking $84.2 million from Tether-linked processor Capstone, almost all of it held in Wells Fargo and JPMorgan accounts with just $1.1 million in USDT. The Dominica bank behind Capstone says losing the funds could liquidate it, while Tether puts its exposure under 0.034% of assets.
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Justin Sun says the reports are fabricated. Either way, the screening cost of a 7.5 USDT deposit from an HTX-tagged wallet lands on whoever receives it.
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Twenty-one institutions have set a first-half-2027 date for a jointly issued dollar token. The float arithmetic points to a different motive: defending settlement flows, not earning on reserves.
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Two Thai businessmen say a Homeland Security agent asked informally, without a warrant, and Tether flagged ten Ethereum addresses holding $42.4m of USDT that the men had bought on the secondary market without ever opening a Tether account.
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Elliptic and the US Secret Service froze 52 wallets holding $52.8 million in USDT on September 8. US sanctions followed a day later, Telegram deleted the channels the same day, and Xinbi says it is moving to a stablecoin nobody can freeze.
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Federal Law No. 282-FZ took effect on September 1, requiring Russians to disclose foreign wallets and capping new retail buyers at 300,000 rubles a year per intermediary. The deputy finance minister sizes the market at 3.7 trillion rubles.
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Orlen's Swiss trading arm paid for Venezuelan crude with Tether tokens and received almost none of it. The loss was set before the first conversion, by the payment terms written into a contract signed days after the parties met.
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Orlen's contractor converted $245m into USDT at Dubai companies and later handed 110m of it to a purported broker on two USB sticks. The Polish government's investigation pins the total lost and spent at $424m.
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Prosecutors froze ten Tron addresses in June and July before filing on September 14. Getting the money into government hands means Tether destroys the frozen tokens and issues the same value again to an FBI hardware wallet.
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