Tether USD (USDT) — what its owner can do
Who can do these things
The permissions above rest with 0xC6CDE7C39eB2f0F0095F41570af89eFC2C1Ea828, itself a contract, which may be a multisig or a timelock. Whether that is acceptable depends on who holds it.
0xC6CDE7C39eB2f0F0095F41570af89eFC2C1Ea828— a contract, possibly a multisig. Found via owner(), getOwner().
Only named getters were read. If this contract uses role-based access control without enumeration, its role holders cannot be listed, and the absence of a controller here does not mean there is none.
What the contract permits
Can new tokens be created?
New tokens can be created after deployment.
Whoever holds that permission can increase the supply, which reduces the share each existing token represents.
- issue(uint256)
Whether minting has been used, and under what constraints, is not established here.
Can transfers be blocked?
Transfers can be blocked by whoever holds the relevant permission.
If the mechanism is applied to your address, or to the pool you would sell into, you would be unable to sell.
- Address blocking: addBlackList(address), removeBlackList(address)
- Pause controls: unpause(), pause()
- paused() currently returns false
This reports what the contract permits. Whether any address is currently blocked was not checked.
Is there a trading tax?
No trading tax mechanism was found.
- No tax setter or tax rate in the ABI
Can the contract logic be replaced?
The contract logic is fixed and cannot be replaced.
- No proxy pattern detected in the deployed bytecode
Is the liquidity locked?
The trading liquidity can be withdrawn by whoever holds the LP tokens.
Withdrawing liquidity leaves holders with tokens and no pool to sell them into. This is the mechanism behind most losses described as rug pulls.
- Uniswap V2 WETH pool at 0x0d4a11d5EEaaC28EC3F61d100daF4d40471f1852: 2,914 WETH of depth, 0% of its LP supply burned
- Uniswap V2 USDC pool at 0x3041CbD36888bECc7bbCBc0045E3B1f144466f5f: 1,799,619 USDC of depth, 0% of its LP supply burned
- SushiSwap WETH pool at 0x06da0fd433C1A5d7a4faa01111c044910A184553: 124.8403 WETH of depth, 0% of its LP supply burned
- SushiSwap USDC pool at 0xD86A120a06255Df8D4e2248aB04d4267E23aDfaA: 661.4662 USDC of depth, 0% of its LP supply burned
Who holds the unburned LP tokens cannot be established: ERC20 holders cannot be enumerated over RPC. It may sit in a time-lock contract, or in a wallet, and this check cannot tell those apart.