Trump’s crypto firm joins Tether, Circle, and Ripple in $2.6 billion stablecoin freeze as Binance hack outflows near $6 billion

Stablecoin issuers, including Tether, Circle, Ripple, and World Liberty Financial, have frozen more than $2.6 billion in digital assets linked to a suspected Binance security breach involving nearly $6 billion. On Oct. 29, Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino said the company had frozen more than $ 1.567 billion in USDT linked to the suspected incident. He wrote on X: Circle also froze approximately $823 million in USDC linked to the incident. CEO Jeremy Allaire confirmed that the company was coordinating with law enforcement to restrict the movement of potentially compromised assets and support the investigation. Other stablecoin issuers joined the effort, with Ripple reportedly freezing approximately $200 million and Donald Trump-linked World Liberty Financial restricting $27 million in USD1.

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