Stablecoin issuer Tether added 8,888.8888888 BTC to its reserves in Q4 2025. The latest stash brings its total holdings to over 96,000 coins, which is worth roughly $8.46 billion. The purchase of around $779 million was confirmed by CEO Paolo Ardoino on X and continues the company’s ongoing “8888” accumulation pattern. Tether’s Diversification Strategy Tether […]
A new on-chain study published by the AMLBot team shows that Tether has frozen more than $3.29 billion in USDT across the Ethereum and Tron blockchains between 2023 and 2025, blacklisting 7,268 addresses in the process. The findings highlighted a sharp contrast with Circle’s USDC, which froze $109 million across just 372 addresses during the […]
As the institutional adoption of cryptocurrencies, particularly the stablecoin sector, expands, the need for privacy settlement is becoming increasingly important. A Privacy Gap Report from the layer-1 zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) privacy blockchain Aleo has highlighted the challenges that could stem from the persistent lack of privacy. According to the report, the lack of privacy in institutional […]
The stablecoin issuing giant Tether has announced a partnership with two entities to foster the advancement of the tokenized securities sector. The firm’s asset tokenization division, Hadron by Tether, will spearhead the collaboration. The companies involved include the tokenized securities platform Bitfinex Securities and the asset manager KraneShares. According to a press release sent to […]
Tether is evaluating a raise from “a selected group of high-profile key investors,” to maximize the scale of the company’s strategy across all existing and new business lines, “by several orders of magnitude,” stated CEO Paolo Ardoino on Wednesday. The stablecoin issuer is looking to raise between $15 billion and $20 billion for a roughly […]
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino has publicly addressed and dismissed circulating claims that the firm sold Bitcoin for gold. The controversy erupted on September 6, after YouTuber Clive Thompson suggested that Tether had quietly altered its investment strategy. Citing the company’s statements of assets, Thompson alleged that the firm had sold over $1 billion worth of […]
Stablecoin reserves on centralized exchanges have climbed to a new record of $68 billion, even as supply growth has slowed. The latest milestone, recorded on August 22, was driven by $53 billion in USDT holdings and $13 billion in USDC balances. According to a report by the on-chain aggregator CryptoQuant, this marks a clear break […]
Prominent stablecoin issuer, Tether, has announced plans to launch USDT on RGB, a next-generation protocol for issuing digital assets directly on Bitcoin. RGB, which recently went live on mainnet with its 0.11.1 release, is designed to extend Bitcoin’s capabilities beyond being a store of value by enabling private, scalable, and user-controlled asset issuance. Tether’s Bitcoin […]
Ripple’s native cryptocurrency continues its downward trend, causing it to lose the third spot in terms of market capitalization. Tether’s USDT has taken it back after a few months of being fourth, as its own market cap has grown to $167,613,338 on CoinGecko. Recall that XRP skyrocketed to a new all-time high of $3.65 in […]
In a press release shared with CryptoPotato, Tether, the company behind the largest stablecoin per market capitalization, announced that it has designated the former Executive Director of the White House Crypto Council under President Donald Trump as its new advisor. Pivotal Step Bo Hines, who will be spearheading the firm’s Digital Assets and the United States (U.S.) […]