USDT On-Chain Risk Check

Tether USD · BSC · 0x55d398326f99059ff775485246999027b3197955
16 / 18 On-chain Check
Checked 21 Oct 2026. On-chain Check, 18 of the 100-point ChainSift Score — what it covers.

Evidence

Risk factorFindingEvidenceDate
Sellable Yes Transfer simulation 21 Oct 2026
Buy tax 0% Contract 21 Oct 2026
Sell tax 0% Contract 21 Oct 2026
Admin mint Enabled Contract 21 Oct 2026
Transfers pausable Not present Contract 21 Oct 2026
Address blacklist Not present Contract 21 Oct 2026
Upgradeable proxy No Contract 21 Oct 2026
Source verified Yes Block explorer 21 Oct 2026
Top-10 holders 17.7% Holder distribution 21 Oct 2026
Holders 0 Token contract 21 Oct 2026

This contract — USDT

Deployed by0x970609…9773af
Current owner0xf68a4b…fef62d

Largest holders

RankAddressShare
#1 0x8894e0…e2d4e3 4.89%
#2 0xf97781…41acec 4.19%
#3 0x5a52e9…70efcb 3.27%
#4 · contract 0x8932fe…595f71 1.31%
#5 · contract 0x128463…a87974 0.83%

What this means

This automated check scored this contract 16 out of 18, and the findings describe what the contract's code technically allows, not what its operators intend to do. The most relevant flag here is that admin minting is enabled, which means whoever holds the owner privileges can create new tokens at will. In practice this matters because new supply can dilute existing holders' share of the total, and if minting is used aggressively it could affect the token's value independent of demand. On the positive side, no pausable transfer function and no address blacklist were detected on the date of this check, meaning the contract does not currently contain code that would let an owner freeze transfers or block specific wallets from moving tokens. Sell simulation also returned no honeypot behaviour, with buy and sell tax both reading 0%, and the contract is not an upgradeable proxy, meaning its core logic cannot be swapped out later without deploying a new contract. Top-10 wallets hold 17.7% of supply, a concentration figure worth noting but not inherently alarming on its own. Source code is verified on the block explorer, which allows anyone, including this automated tool, to read the actual logic rather than relying on unverified bytecode.

What this check does not tell you is just as important. It reads contract mechanics only: it cannot assess who controls the admin keys, whether those keys sit behind a multisig or timelock, what the team's track record or identity is, how token supply is allocated or vested, whether there is a working product behind the token, or whether any legal or regulatory structure applies. A contract can score well on mechanics while still carrying risk from concentrated ownership, opaque team control, or business factors entirely outside the code. Nothing here is a judgement on intent, and no human has reviewed this contract or its surrounding project.

Before treating any of this as reassurance, it's worth looking at who holds the admin/owner wallet and whether it's a multisig, checking whether mint events have occurred historically and at what volume, reviewing the project's own documentation for how minting authority is meant to be used, and looking at holder distribution trends over time rather than a single snapshot. Independent research into the team, audits by third parties, and the token's actual circulating supply history would all sit outside what this automated check can confirm.

Team, tokenomics and legal structure are not assessed here — that is the other 82 points of the ChainSift Score. How this check works and what it misses.

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We checked 18 points out of 100.

The other 82 are where money is usually lost: who the team is, where the tokens sit, what the documents actually say, and what the project chose not to put on its front page.

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Contract data read from GoPlus Security and the BSC block explorer. Scores are calculated by fixed rules from that data — no language model decides them. Last updated 21 Oct 2026. A check describes a contract on the date shown; contracts can be changed afterwards.