Circle froze $57.6 million in USDC linked to the Libra memecoin scandal, with one wallet holding $44.59 million and the deployer wallet containing roughly $13 million.
The freeze was confirmed through visual data shared by Arkham, showing both wallets inactive with halted token movement.
Circle, similar to other centralized stablecoin providers, can freeze USDC under emergency or legal circumstances, such as security breaches, fraud investigations, or regulatory enforcement.
The Libra memecoin project faced controversy due to allegations of insider activity, bot manipulation, and developer profiteering, leading to one of the largest known USDC freezes related to a memecoin incident.