Originally published by Cointelegraph
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Today in crypto, US spot Bitcoin ETFs have logged six consecutive weeks of net inflows, US Senator Elizabeth Warren questioned Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg over his company’s stablecoin plans. Meanwhile, BlockSec data showed Tether froze over $500 million in USDT across 370 Ethereum and Tron addresses in 30 days.
US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have recorded a sixth consecutive week of net inflows, marking the longest such streak since August 2025.
The current six-week run stretches from the week of April 2 through Friday, pulling in a combined $3.4 billion,accordingto data from SoSoValue. The strongest week came in mid-April, when inflows hit $996.38 million for the week of April 17, while the streak’s weakest showing was the week of April 2 with just $22.34 million. The most recent week logged $622.75 million.
The run marks the longest streak of consecutive net weekly inflows in more than nine months, when a 7-week ran from June 13 to July 18, 2025, drew in roughly $7.57 billion, including $2.72 billion for the week of July 11 and $2.39 billion the following week.
Bitcoin ETFs weekly inflows. Source: SoSoValue
Notably, last week ended on a sour note, with outflows of $277.50 million on Thursday and $145.65 million on Friday. Monday and Tuesday had led the week strongly, pulling in $532.21 million and $467.35 million respectively, before Wednesday’s inflows slowed sharply to $46.33 million ahead of the late-week reversal.
Meta’s stablecoin plans draw scrutiny
US Senator Elizabeth Warren ispressing Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerbergfor answers over the company’s stablecoin strategy, raising concerns about transparency and regulatory safeguards.
In a letter sent this week, Warren said Meta’s limited disclosures around its stablecoin initiatives were “deeply troubling,” pointing to the company’s earlier attempt to launch Libra — later rebranded as Diem — which faced intense regulatory opposition before being shut down.
“It is critical that Meta be transparent with Congress and the public regarding its stablecoin-related plans,” Warren wrote.
The scrutiny comes afterMeta quietly expanded stablecoin payoutsusing USDC for select creators in the Philippines and Colombia in April.
Source: US Senate Banking Committee
Tether freezes over $500 million of USDT in 30 days: BlockSec
Tether hasfrozen more than $514 million in USDTacross Ethereum and Tron over the past 30 days, according to onchain data from BlockSec’s USDT Freeze Tracker, highlighting the stablecoin issuer’s growing role in crypto-related enforcement actions.
As of Friday, thetoolshows 370 addresses blacklisted in that period, including 328 on Tron and 42 on Ethereum, with about $505.9 million frozen on Tron and $8.73 million on Ethereum.
The figures indicate that most recent enforcement activity is concentrated on Tron and highlight how often the world’s largest stablecoin issuer is intervening onchain to immobilize funds flagged as high-risk or linked to investigations.
The recent activity also builds on a pattern of increasingly frequent enforcement. BlockSec’sanalysisof 2025 data found that Tether blacklisted 4,163 unique addresses across Ethereum and Tron, freezing a total of $1.26 billion in USDT. The current pace of freezes suggests Tether could exceed that total in blacklisted USDT well before the end of the year.
Of the $1.26 billion of frozen assets in 2025, more than half (about $698 million) was later destroyed via the contracts’ “destroyBlackFunds” function, and only 3.6% of those addresses were subsequently removed from the blacklist, indicating that once imposed, freezes are rarely reversed.
Aseparatestudyof 2023-2025 trends estimated that Tether immobilized roughly $3.3 billion across 7,268 addresses in those three years, far outpacing rival stablecoin issuer Circle over the same horizon.
USDT Freeze Tracker. Source:BlockSec
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