A group of U.S. government officials led by U.S. attorney Tracy Wilkinson have filed a civil complaint to the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, following their investigation of four crypto wallets holding over 9.8 million Tether ($USDT).

The biggest stablecoin issuer has come under scrutiny from regulators in recent years. On January 13th, three Ethereum addresses were blocked with around $160 million in USDT. According to Bloxy blockchain statistics, these three addresses are the first to be added to the Tether blacklist this year. Blockchain data shows that two weeks ago, a Tether account was frozen. In addition to the 312 addresses added last year, the Ethereum blockchain now has 563 addresses that have been banned since 2017.

Coinbase will list Tether’s USDT (+0.28%) on its professional trading platform, allowing investors to deposit the dollar-pegged stablecoin immediately and to begin trading next week.

Tether has asked courts to protect confidential information of private companies.

A military coup has been at work trying to overthrow the presiding government of Myanmar since February of 2021, but the elected officials are still working as a shadow government to try to hold on to some semblance of power. The latest move from the elected NUG (National Unity Government) to build support has been to announce the stablecoin Tether (USDT) as the official currency of the country.

Tether Expressed: The new “Pay with Tether” video series introduces businesses that accept Tether tokens for their goods and services. In Episode 1 we talk to travel platform travalacom which lets you buy flights, hotels, and other experiences with Tether tokens.

Coinbase will list Tether’s USDT (+0.28%) on its professional trading platform, allowing investors to deposit the dollar-pegged stablecoin immediately and to begin trading next week.

As an increasing part of the bitcoin economy, stablecoins are collateralizing $7.21 billion of bitcoin futures open interest.