Tether’s circulating supply reaches 10-month high of $74B

Tether’s USDT supply reached 74 billion for the first time since May 2022, according to CryptoSlate’s data. Over the past 30 days, Tether’s supply added roughly 5 billion as its stablecoin rivals like Binance USD (BUSD) and USD Coin (USDC) faced regulatory scrutiny and banking issues. This resulted in investors ditching these embattled stablecoins for…

Traders turn to USDT as BUSD dominates heavily imbalanced Curve liquidity pool

Ad Curve pool’s Binance USD (BUSD) V2 pool is heavily imbalanced, with crypto traders showing preferences for Tether’s USDT. The BUSD V2 dashboard shows that the embattled stablecoin accounted for roughly 81% of the pool’s $12.85 million reserve, while USDT made up 4%. The other stablecoins in the pool — USD Coin (USDC) and DAI…

Wall street institution Cantor Fitzgerald reportedly manages $39B of Tether’s reserves

Ad Stablecoin issuer Tether (USDT) is reportedly using Wall Street financial institution Cantor Fitzgerald to manage its $39 billion bond portfolio, Wall Street Journal reported Feb. 10. According to the report, the stablecoin issuer began using Cantor Fitzgerald in 2021 after it reached a settlement agreement with a financial regulator over the management of its…

Tether reports $700M profit for Q4’22

Latest Report Is the crypto bottom in? On-chain says yes, macro says pain occurs after the fed pause Is Bitcoin poised for a new low or has the bottom been set at $15,500? CryptoSlate analyzed on-chain and macro data to present both sides of the argument. Andjela Radmilac · 5 days ago

Tether denies borrowing from bankrupt Celsius

Three Arrows Capital Venture Capital Company in Asia Three Arrows Capital (3AC), a Singapore-based crypto hedge fund, collapsed due to poor risk management, recklessness in dealing with business partners and a significant portion of greed. More about Three Arrows Capital Info LinkedIn

Adoption grows as more than $7T settled with stablecoins in 2022

The ongoing bear market did little to curb the rising use of stablecoins. On the contrary, dollar-pegged coins like USDT and USDC saw a parabolic growth in market cap this year, becoming a defacto settlement currency of the crypto industry. Following the collapse of Terra and its algorithmic stablecoin UST, the two stablecoin giants took…

BUSD’s supply falls below $20B as USDC’s supply climbs above $45B

Binance USD’s (BUSD) supply declined by over 15% to $18.8 billion from $22 billion within the last 24 hours after Binance experienced a surge in withdrawals. The withdrawals appeared to have affected BUSD’s supply as it dropped below $20 billion for the first time since climbing above it in September when Binance converted its users’…

CFTC considers Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tether to be commodities

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) stated in its Dec. 13 court filing against FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried that digital assets like Bitcoin(BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and Tether (USDT) are commodities. Source: CFTC Court Filing CFTC wrote that these digital assets are commodities because they meet the definition of the term as defined by the…

Tether to reduce secured loans to zero by 2023

Tether (USDT) said it would remove its secured loans in its reserves by 2023, according to a Dec. 13 blog post. A Dec. 1 Wall Street Journal report said Tether’s secured loan was 9% (roughly $6.1 billion) of its total assets as of Sept. 30. The report added that the stablecoin issuer might not have…

Bitfinex holds the highest amount of Tether(USDT) at 60%, exchange balances surpass ATH

Amidst increased bearish action on the cryptocurrency market, digital assets are offloading from exchanges and finding their way into cold wallets. However, the case is pretty different for Bitfinex’s stablecoin inflows, which according to onchain data provider Glassnode, Tether (USDT)  holdings on the exchange broke a fresh all-time high on Nov.29 and surpased $11 billion….