{"id":70058,"date":"2022-11-14T19:01:41","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T17:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=70058"},"modified":"2025-09-07T23:50:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T20:50:49","slug":"u-s-authorities-demanded-paxos-freeze-assets-withdrawn-from-ftx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/u-s-authorities-demanded-paxos-freeze-assets-withdrawn-from-ftx\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. authorities demanded Paxos freeze assets withdrawn from FTX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paxos has been ordered by US federal law enforcement authorities to freeze assets linked to four Ethereum addresses.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">UPDATE: Paxos, at the direction of US Federal Law enforcement, froze 11,184.38 PAXG tokens valued at ~$19M. These tokens were on FTX and moved to unknown addresses in the last 24hrs. This is rapidly evolving. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bJdAsrNrH3\">https:\/\/t.co\/bJdAsrNrH3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Paxos (@PaxosGlobal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaxosGlobal\/status\/1591506352660414464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>According to a press release dated November 12, Paxos froze 11,184.38 PAXG worth about $19 million. These tokens had previously been on the FTX.com platform and were moved to unknown addresses in the previous 24 hours.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"592\" height=\"163\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2022-11-14-v-18.39.42.png\" alt=\"US authorities demanded Paxos freeze assets withdrawn from FTX\" class=\"wp-image-190847\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2022-11-14-v-18.39.42.png 592w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2022-11-14-v-18.39.42-300x83.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><figcaption>Data: Paxos.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On November 11, the FTX Group <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/ftx-group-files-for-bankruptcy-sam-bankman-fried-resigns-as-ceo\">filed for bankruptcy<\/a> under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. Sam Bankman-Fried stepped down as CEO.<\/p>\n<p>On the same day, Tether Limited, at the request of law enforcement authorities<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/tether-freezes-46-37-million-usdt-held-for-ftx-at-authorities-request\">blocked<\/a> 46,370,701 USDT belonging to FTX on the Tron blockchain, and later 31.4 million USDT. This occurred after PeckShield researchers drew attention to transfers <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/unknown-actors-moved-more-than-400-million-from-ftx-wallets\">worth over $400 million<\/a> from the Bitcoin exchange&#8217;s accounts to external addresses.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Kraken, at the request of law enforcement authorities<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/kraken-freezes-accounts-linked-to-ftx-and-alameda\">froze<\/a> accounts belonging to the FTX Group, including Alameda Research, and their executives.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paxos has been ordered by US federal law enforcement authorities to freeze assets linked to four Ethereum addresses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1236,1504,36],"class_list":["post-70058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-ftx","tag-paxos","tag-regulation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"30","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70060,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70058\/revisions\/70060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}