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Two Thai businessmen have sued Tether, alleging the company froze 42.4 million USDT too early. Here is what the dispute means for users and compliance.
A Thai businessman has sued Tether over a reported $42.4 million USDT freeze. Here is the legal dispute, the claimed timeline, and why the case matters.
Two Thai businessmen sued Tether over $42.4 million in USDT frozen on a verbal Homeland Security request, four months before a judge signed a seizure warrant.
Tether froze 42,417,785.62 USDT across 10 addresses on October 30, 2025, following an informal warning from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). The formal court order authorizing the seizure of these assets was issued by U.S. authorities on February 19, 2026.
Tether launched open-source AI translation models that work offline on everyday devices for 19 African and 9 European languages. The AfriSLM model, with just 800 million parameters, outperformed much larger systems such as Qwen3.5-122B and TranslateGemma-27B across three benchmarks.
Tether is facing a new lawsuit related to its freeze of 42.4 million of its USDT stablecoins. The lawsuit, filed Monday (Aug. 31) by a pair of Thai businessmen, alleged the company blocked the tokens months before United States authorities were granted a seizure warrant.