Tether Freezes 13.4M USDT Across 22 Ethereum & TRON Addresses on Oct 16

COINOTAG News reported on October 17 that MistTrack monitoring identified Tether freezing a cumulative 13.4 million USDT across 22 addresses on the Ethereum and TRON networks on October 16. The largest freeze—approximately 10.3 million USDT—was linked to an address starting with 0xecb, while about 1.4 million USDT was associated with an address beginning TYzDe. On-chain analytics providers classify these actions as issuer-level custodial freezes; the figures reported are derived from blockchain monitoring rather than market conjecture. Market participants and compliance teams may consider this data relevant for short-term liquidity profiling and counterparty risk assessment.