Tether freezes more than $45 million in Xinbi-linked USDT wallets

  • Tether froze USDT across Tron addresses linked to Xinbi Guarantee on Sept. 8.
  • MistTrack counted 39,273,713 USDT; Bitrace estimated roughly $45 million across broader addresses.
  • Xinbi redirected deposits to USDD after earlier replacement wallets were frozen within hours.

Tether froze roughly $39.3 million in USDT across 10 Tron addresses linked to Xinbi Guarantee on Sept. 8, MistTrack said, while Bitrace identified approximately $45 million across 21 addresses. The differing counts reflect separate tracing methodologies and follow earlier Bitrace reporting that at least 22 operational addresses tied to Xinbi had been restricted, including deposit, intermediary, withdrawal and Xpay wallets. Xinbi Guarantee is a Chinese-language escrow marketplace that blockchain investigators have linked to pig-butchering scams, stolen funds and Southeast Asian scam compounds. The UK sanctioned Xinbi on March 26, and Elliptic attributed at least $8.4 billion in USDT transactions to the platform since 2022. Xinbi has previously replaced frozen wallets within hours and redirected users to USDD, a stablecoin designed without a central issuer able to blacklist individual holders. The latest action comes as Xinbi continues to expand despite Telegram restrictions and earlier freezes targeting related marketplaces.

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