Tether Blacklists Four THORChain Vaults Holding 1.45 Million USDT
Tether blacklisted four THORChain vaults holding 1.45 million USDT, and THORChain’s Tron swaps and liquidity-provider operations were halted afterward. Chad Barraford said the team had no advance warning. The incident left one part of THORChain’s activity paused while raising another example of how a centralized issuer can intervene in a DeFi system.
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THORChain users and liquidity providers noticed a change in access to Tron swaps and liquidity-provider operations once the vaults were blacklisted. That meant activity tied to those vaults was no longer functioning as before, while the amount involved was 1.45 million USDT. This detail came from the account of the halt and the blacklist action.
Before this, THORChain’s Tron swaps and liquidity-provider operations were running; after the blacklist, those functions were halted. What stays the same is that the protocol still exists, but the Tron-related activity described here was stopped. The operational change is described alongside the blacklisting of four vaults holding USDT.
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