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Plaintiffs claim Tether blacklisted $42.4 million in USDT after an informal U.S. law-enforcement request, more than three months before a formal seizure warrant existed. The case targets the core market-structure risk in stablecoins: a single issuer can immobilize dollar-denominated collateral at discretion, which matters for exchange settlement rails, OTC desks, and DeFi lending books that treat USDT as cash-equivalent. Watch whether the court allows discovery into Tether's freeze protocol and whether U.S. or EU regulators cite the case in stablecoin due-process rules, since any mandated process would raise compliance costs for USDT and marginally favor issuers with clearer freeze standards such as USDC.
As a Policy signal, watch whether it changes price action, volatility, or flows around USDT, BTC, ETH.
Original Source: CoinDesk
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