The USDF Consortium is an association of Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) insured financial institutions that launched on January 12th. The founding members of the consortium include New York Community Bank (NYCB), NBH Bank, FirstBank, Sterling National Bank, and Synovus Bank, according to the announcement. A couple of fintech firms are also part of the...Read More
The issuer of the stablecoin leader USDT – Tether – faces yet another class-action lawsuit with familiar accusations. Lawsuit Against Tether According to the official document, the two plaintiffs, Matthew Anderson and Shawn Dolifka in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, accused Tether of misleading the consumers regarding the attributes...Read More
Senator Sherrod Brown appears to be keen on understanding how the process of stablecoin minting and redemption actually work. A comprehensive regulatory regime for stablecoin is the need of the hour, a failure to roll out one will prompt the watchdogs to step in. The head of the US Senate Banking Committee has called upon...Read More
According to recent research published by the independent cryptocurrency outlet Protos, two companies have been responsible for buying two-thirds of Tether’s USDT total supply since its inception. The organizations, Alameda Research and Cumberland Global, had so far been the recipients of at least $60.3 billion USDT out of the $108.5 billion of Tether’s outbound transfers...Read More
Months after indicating plans to expand the USDT stablecoin support to Avalanche blockchain, popular stablecoin issuer Tether has finally launched its dollar-pegged cryptocurrency on the eco-friendly network. USDT Now Available on Avalanche With USDT launching on Avalanche, users can now transfer the largest stablecoin by market capitalization at a relatively lower cost, and the transactions...Read More
According to an exclusive press release shared by BitMEX, Tether (USDT) is slated to go live on the crypto exchange on 10th November at 04:00 UTC. With this, the traders can now formally begin margin trading and settle with Tether issued on the Ethereum network, i.e., ERC20-USDT on BitMEX. Diversification in BitMEX’s offerings Extreme price...Read More
Tether Holdings Limited, the issuer of the largest stablecoin by market cap, USDT, recently announced integrating Notabene to manage regulatory and counterparty risk in crypto transactions. Tether to Crack Down on Illegal Transfers As per an announcement on Tuesday, Tether will be testing the Notabene platform to comply with the Crypto Travel Rule —a mandate...Read More
The United States Commodity and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has ordered Tether and Bitfinex to pay fines worth $42.5 million. In a release from today, October 15th, Tether Holdings Limited, Tether Limited, Tether Operations Limited, and Tether International Limited – all companies associated with the issuer of the largest stablecoin USDT, Tether, were ordered to...Read More
Bloomberg launched a scathing attack on the stablecoin issuer in a BusinessWeek article on Oct. 7 titled “Anyone Seen Tether’s Billions?” In it, the financial news giant stated that the stablecoin is essentially a fraud because it does not have the assets to back it. At the time of writing, there were 69 billion USDT...Read More
As regulatory pressure mounts in the U.S., policymakers are putting stablecoins at the top of their agendas. Citing “people familiar with the matter,” Bloomberg has reported that officials are crafting a policy framework set to be released in the coming weeks. Their primary concern is ensuring that investors can reliably move money in and out...Read More
William Quigley, who co-founded stablecoin Tether (USDT), thinks non-fungible tokens (NFTs) accessible in metaverses will hit annual sales above $10 trillion. He shared his thoughts about NFTs and metaverse with Bloomberg in an interview over the week. When asked about the lush, blossoming NFT fields of 2021, Quigley said his sights are set on the...Read More
Tether has yet again issued another public opinion by Moore Cayman, a provider of audit services that reassures USDTs are “fully backed by reserves.” However, the company has failed to disclose the precise nature of the reserves it’s referring to, which has raised a few eyebrows in the community. Another Public Opinion By Moore Cayman...Read More
Though the Justice Department declined to comment for the article, Bloomberg was able to report last week that the DOJ is investigating U.S. banks and the backers of popular stablecoin USDT. There is some ongoing speculation about how this might affect bitcoin’s price. What’s Supposedly Going on With Tether and the DOJ? The Justice Department...Read More
Although he made his fortune trading penny stocks and manipulating the markets, Jordan Belfort, the trader who inspired the iconic movie “The Wolf of Wall Street,” is currently not very happy with a lot of what’s going on with the crypto industry. In a recent interview he explained in detail what excites him and what...Read More
Tether just issued a brief response to a Bloomberg article published earlier today, alleging that the company’s executives are facing a criminal probe into Bank Fraud. Tether implies that Bloomberg’s claims are recycled, pointing out that the article is based on unnamed sources and stale, years-old allegations. The stablecoin issuer considers the article as part...Read More
Tether executives are reportedly facing a probe from the US Department of Justice (DOJ), as prosecutors are looking into the company’s past activities with its banking partners. According to Bloomberg on Monday (July 26, 2021), the information came from three anonymous sources familiar with the matter. The DOJ is investigating whether banks were aware of...Read More
Tether, the company behind the biggest stablecoin by means of total market cap – USDT – has announced that CREAM Finance has become the first DeFi protocol to support their Euro-pegged EURt token. According to a recent press release, CREAM Finance – a well-known DeFi protocol, has become the first to integrate Tether’s EURt stablecoin...Read More
In an announcement on April 23, Coinbase Pro stated that it had enabled trading for the Tether stablecoin. The move is huge news as previously the leading exchange would only support its own native stablecoin, USDC. The announcement added that support for USDT will generally be available in Coinbase’s supported jurisdictions, with the exception of...Read More
A year after the release of XAUt – a commodity-backed token pegged to gold – Bitfinex has announced the launch of a perpetual contract for the trading pair Tether Gold/Bitcoin. The new product will be settled in BTC and will offer up to 100x leverage for users. XAUt/Bitcoin Perpetual Contract on Bitfinex Launched in 2012,...Read More
The largest stablecoin by market capitalization, Tether (USDT), has announced plans to launch on two more blockchains – Polkadot and Kusama. Tether aims to become the first-ever stablecoin operating on Polkadot, but it will first launch on Kusama due to the availability of parachains. USDT Goes on Polkadot and Kusama Tether Operations Limited is the...Read More
Tether Holdings Limited, the company behind Tether (USDT), has published a testimony yesterday from an insurance company that claims the stablecoin is “fully backed” but without disclosing what kind of assets are backing up the currency. Moore Cayman, an insurance company located in the Cayman Islands, testified for Tether, stating that the stablecoin is fully...Read More
Tether, the company issuing the most widely-used stablecoin, USDT, has revealed that it got a ransom demand for 500 BTC. The sender has threatened the company to leak documents to the public that would “harm the bitcoin ecosystem.” Tether Gets a 500 BTC Ransom Demand Tether, the issuer of the popular USDT stablecoin, took it...Read More
Tether and Bitfinex will no longer be able to trade with New York citizens and will have to pay $18.5 million in penalties as their two-year-long legal case with the New York Attorney General office came to an end. The case started in April 2019 when the NYAG office alleged the popular exchange Bitfinex of...Read More
Following the recent attack on the Yearn.Finance protocol, major U.S. dollar stablecoin company Tether froze $1.7 million worth of USDT stolen from the platform. Meanwhile, Bitfinex disclosed that it had made the last loan repayment to Tether. Tether Freeze Raises Centralization Concerns Tether CTO Paolo Ardoino announced the news of the USDT freeze via his...Read More
Tether has dominated stablecoin markets for the past three years as the treasury has kept churning them out with a record level of almost 27 billion in USDT circulating now. The latest figures from CoinMetrics, however, indicate that its market share has dropped below 75% for the first time ever. More stablecoin options are good...Read More
The January 15th deadline passed, and, as somewhat expected, the parties in the NYAG v iFinex case are yet to conclude the production and submission of the requested documentation. As reported by CryptoPotato earlier, January 15th was a much-anticipated date regarding the case between the New York Attorney General’s office and iFinex – the parent company of...Read More
Cryptocurrency traders that want to benefit from the infamous market volatility would be able to do so by taking advantage of COTI’s recently launched Crypto Volatility Index (CVI). Users will be able to place positions in anticipation of significant fluctuations in either direction. The First Decentralized Crypto Volatility Index COTI is a blockchain project that...Read More
Many in the cryptocurrency field have recently discussed the upcoming January 15th date as an important consideration for the ongoing case between the office of the New York Attorney General (NYAG) and iFinex, the parent company of Bitfinex and Tether. With this in mind, below is a comprehensive summary of what happened and what to...Read More
Over $400 million worth of the most popular stablecoin Tether (USDT) has been sent to the cryptocurrency exchange Huobi over the past couple of hours. Two of the transactions were sent from an unknown address with a total worth of around $304 million, while another transfer worth $100 million was sent from Bitfinex. Over $400...Read More
The combined stablecoin market recently topped a valuation figure of $20 billion. Apparently, this was the total market value of all cryptocurrencies in the pre-bull run month of February 2017. Also, stablecoins together are contributing to $26 billion worth of trading volume. The Crypto Stablecoin Market Is Booming As per the latest statistics, the total...Read More
