{"id":41716,"date":"2025-08-12T12:31:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T12:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=41716"},"modified":"2025-08-12T12:31:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T12:31:53","slug":"tether-tron-backed-t3-financial-crime-unit-has-frozen-250m-of-criminal-assets-in-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=41716","title":{"rendered":"Tether, Tron-Backed T3 Financial Crime Unit Has Frozen $250M of Criminal Assets in a Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The T3 Financial Crime Unit, a joint initiative by Tron, Tether, and blockchain analytics firm TRM Labs, has now frozen over $250 million worth of criminal assets less than a year after its launch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFreezing over $250 million in illicit assets in less than a year is a powerful testament to what\u2019s possible when the industry comes together with a shared goal,\u201d Paolo Ardoino, CEO of Tether, said in a statement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Formed in September 2024, T3 has worked with law enforcement agencies on five continents to target funds linked to money laundering, scams, hacks, terrorism financing, and other crimes.<\/p>\n<p>The unit says it has monitored over $3 billion in transaction volume and coordinated high-profile seizures, including proceeds from \u201cpig butchering\u201d scams and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/policy\/2025\/01\/30\/t3-freezes-usd26-4m-linked-to-european-crime-syndicate\">organized crime networks in Europe.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The milestone coincides with the launch of \u201cT3+,\u201d a new public-private collaboration program aimed at speeding up cross-border investigations by bringing exchanges, financial institutions, and other stakeholders into real-time enforcement efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Binance is the program\u2019s first member, with the exchange already working alongside T3 to freeze nearly $6 million connected to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/tag\/pig-butchering\">pig butchering scam.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The group said expanding partnerships through T3+ will help scale real-time monitoring and intervention across the global crypto ecosystem.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The T3 Financial Crime Unit, a joint initiative by Tron, Tether, and blockchain analytics firm TRM Labs, has now frozen over $250 million worth of criminal assets less than a year after its launch. \u201cFreezing over $250 million in illicit assets in less than a year is a powerful testament to what\u2019s possible when the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-41716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}