Tether News
Tether plays a major role in crypto liquidity, making Tether news vital for traders and regulators. As the largest stablecoin, USDT is widely used for trading, remittances, and DeFi applications. Despite questions about its reserves and regulatory concerns, Tether remains a key pillar of the digital asset market.
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Tether faces Senate scrutiny after investigators found USDT dominated 846 Iran-linked wallets, while the company cited $550M in freezes.
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Tether has said it helped freeze nearly $550 million in Iran-linked USDT this year as U.S. authorities targeted wallets tied to the Central Bank of Iran and other sanctioned networks. Tether said on Sep. 28 that it acted on information…
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Tether and Shiga have announced plans to bring self-custodial wallets for USD₮, Bitcoin, and Tether Gold to individuals and institutions across Africa and the Gulf Cooperation Council. Tether said in its Sep. 28 announcement that both products will use its…
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Binance Wallet now lets users pay gas fees with USDT on BNB Smart Chain, Ethereum, Solana and TRON, with more networks planned.
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Circle secured a $100 million Binance investment and five-year USDC deal as it competes with Tether for stablecoin market share.
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Tether says its EQIBank exposure is below 0.034% of assets as the offshore bank fights a U.S. forfeiture case involving $84.2 million.
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The European Central Bank and the EU’s 27 national central banks have asked regulators to replace MiCA’s 30% and 60% bank-deposit floors for stablecoin reserves with maturity-based liquidity requirements. The European System of Central Banks said in its response to…
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Galaxy launched USDC and USDT lending vaults on Kamino, bringing its institutional risk framework and curated yield strategies to Solana.
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Aave has announced an Avalanche credit hub that will let institutions borrow USA₮ against tokenized assets as the RWA market exceeds $51 billion and Avalanche hosts more than $3.4 billion of the assets. Aave RWA Hub will turn tokenized assets…
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The U.S. Department of Justice has restrained more than $52 million in cryptocurrency while targeting wallets and online channels linked to the Xinbi Guarantee scam network. Tether said in a Sep. 11 statement that the DOJ credited the stablecoin issuer’s…
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Tether has tested its decentralized peer-to-peer search technology by storing the full Wikipedia archive across 100 distributed nodes, as the USDT issuer works on a system designed to remain available without relying on centralized search infrastructure. According to Tether CEO…
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Tether has frozen roughly $39.3 million in USDT held across 10 Tron addresses linked to Xinbi Guarantee, a Chinese-language guarantee marketplace that blockchain investigators have tied to billions of dollars in crypto transactions. MistTrack, the onchain tracing platform developed by…
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Tether-backed Orionx is closing after an audit found a $7 million custody gap, prompting suspended withdrawals and a criminal complaint.
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A planned dollar stablecoin backed by 21 global financial institutions will begin with regulatory resources, corporate relationships, and international payment connections. Four industry executives told crypto.news, however, that institutional backing will not guarantee adoption unless the token can match the…
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USDT0 has launched on Stellar through LayerZero, connecting wallets, exchanges and applications to Tether-backed cross-chain liquidity.
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Tether faces a New York lawsuit alleging it froze 42.4 million USDT before authorities obtained a warrant in a $61 million fraud probe.