PANews reported on September 15 that ZachXBT, an on-chain detective, published an article on the X platform criticizing Circle for not caring about the ecosystem at all and just squeezing profits from it. After the DeFi vulnerability/hacker attack, the hacker was never blacklisted. Circle took 4.5 months longer than all other major stablecoin issuers to blacklist the funds of the North Korean hacker group Lazarus Group. Some comments pointed out that although Tether is often criticized for non-compliance, it has always responded quickly to freezes.