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Mercado Bitcoin halts transfers as Tether freezes over 4.5M USDT
AMBCrypto · Mon, 02 Nov 2026 16:59:20 GMT
Hype 5/100 · Market impact 70/100 · Breaking 58/100
Tags: BTC, USDT
Mercado Bitcoin, described as a Brazilian exchange, halted transfers after Tether froze more than 4.5 million USDT and published wallet addresses to help trace the assets, days after a theft at Binance and alongside a new BTCPay security warning.
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