The U.S. Department of the Treasury is seeking to tackle potential crypto money laundering and the use of crypto for funding criminal activities. The USDT have announced plans to step up enforcements in order to tackle the issue. Sigal Mandelker,the Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, stated that one of the "evolving threats" of cryptocurrencies was the potential enabling of the financing of terror.

Mandelker said that new rules would need to be put in place by financial institutions, including cryptocurrency exchanges, in partnership with the Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.

She said that the USDT's Enforcement Network were ensuring that the 100 registered companies, as well as those who were not registered officially, were being made aware of the rules and were being made to follow them. The Enforcement Network were also partnering with the Internal Revenue Service, in order to recommend specific actions that exchanges could take, in order to ensure their compliance with the stipulated regulations.

She stated that FinCEN had already begun acting in instances where businesses were not complying with the new rules, referencing the shutdown of the BTC-e exchange, and the fining of Alexander Vinnie, its operator.