{"id":9297,"date":"2025-08-29T19:38:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T19:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/tether-halts-usdt-freeze-on-legacy-chains-adopts-unsupported-status\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T19:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T19:38:08","slug":"tether-halts-usdt-freeze-on-legacy-chains-adopts-unsupported-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/tether-halts-usdt-freeze-on-legacy-chains-adopts-unsupported-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Tether halts USDT freeze on legacy chains, adopts \u2018unsupported\u2019 status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-detail__content blocks\">\n<p class=\"is-style-lead\">Tether will no longer freeze USDT on Omni, BCH SLP, Kusama, EOS, Algorand, and other legacy chains. The assets, however, become \u201cunsupported,\u201d entering a financial limbo without official issuance or redemptions.<\/p>\n<div id=\"cn-block-summary-block_9c5ffe432af16ea3e052f27ab453fae7\" class=\"cn-block-summary\">\n<div class=\"cn-block-summary__nav tabs\">\n        <span class=\"tabs__item is-selected\">Summary<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"cn-block-summary__content\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Tether halts its planned USDT freeze on legacy blockchains, including Omni, BCH SLP, Kusama, EOS, and Algorand.<\/li>\n<li>Tokens on these networks become \u201cunsupported,\u201d with transfers allowed but no official issuance or redemption.<\/li>\n<li>The update follows community feedback and aligns with Tether\u2019s broader strategic focus on active, high-demand chains.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .cn-block-summary --><\/p>\n<p>On August 29, USDT issuer Tether <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/tether.io\/news\/tether-provides-update-on-transition-plan-for-legacy-blockchains\/\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> a significant revision to its transition plan for legacy blockchains. Originally, the company had planned to freeze USDT tokens and halt redemptions on networks including Omni Layer, Bitcoin Cash SLP, Kusama, EOS, and Algorand starting September 1, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Following extensive feedback from user communities, Tether opted to abandon the freeze while still discontinuing official issuance and redemption. This leaves tokens on these networks in an \u201cunsupported\u201d state, where transfers between wallets remain possible but the assets no longer carry the same backing or operational support as USDT on active chains.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cWhile users will still be able to transfer the tokens between wallets, Tether will discontinue direct issuance and redemption on these blockchains. This means the tokens will no longer be officially supported as other Tether tokens,\u201d the USDT issuer said in the statement.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>A strategic pivot, not a retreat<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Tether\u2019s decision to walk back the freeze suggests that pushback from developers and users on networks like EOS and Algorand presented a reputational risk that outweighed the technical simplicity of a clean break.<\/p>\n<p>The revised approach, which Tether states \u201caligns with its broader strategy,\u201d is a pragmatic compromise. It allows the firm to shed the operational burden of supporting low-traffic chains while avoiding the public relations nightmare of effectively destroying user assets.<\/p>\n<p>However, while the issuer pares down its support on one front, it is aggressively expanding on another. Just one day prior to this announcement, Tether revealed plans to launch a native USDT on Bitcoin via the RGB protocol.<\/p>\n<p>The move can be seen as Tether\u2019s strategic bet on Bitcoin\u2019s foundational security. Unlike wrapped assets on bridges, which introduce counterparty risk, RGB leverages Bitcoin\u2019s own scripting and client-side validation to make USDT an intrinsic part of the Bitcoin ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p>Tether already distributes the stablecoin across Ethereum and Tron, each with over $80 billion in circulation, and on smaller platforms like Solana, Avalanche, Celo, and Cosmos.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tether will no longer freeze USDT on Omni, BCH SLP, Kusama, EOS, Algorand, and other legacy chains. The assets, however, become \u201cunsupported,\u201d entering a financial limbo without official issuance or&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9298,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9297\/revisions\/9298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}