BlockSec: In 2025, Tether froze an average of $3.4 million per day, with 55% of the funds permanently destroyed.
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BlockSec's 2025 report reveals Tether blacklisted 4,163 USDT addresses, freezing $1.26 billion ($3.4M daily). 55.6% ($698M) of frozen funds were permanently destroyed, with only 3.6% of addresses removed in 2025.
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According to Foresight News , BlockSec released its 2025 USDT Freeze Report, stating that after analyzing on-chain data from all events on Ethereum and Tron in 2025, a total of 4,163 different USDT addresses were blacklisted by Tether, freezing a total of $1.26 billion. This means that approximately $3.4 million was frozen every day.
At the same time, Tether destroyed $698 million of the $1.26 billion in frozen funds, representing 55.6% of the frozen value that was permanently removed from circulation. Of the 4,163 unique addresses that Tether blacklisted in 2025, only 150 (3.6%) were removed that year. The remaining 231 addresses were blacklisted before 2025.