Iran's central bank has officially authorized the use of Bitcoin and Tether's USDT stablecoin for international business transactions, aiming to bypass US sanctions. In 2025, about $10 billion in digital currency flowed through Iranian networks, with Iran controlling roughly 4.5% of global Bitcoin mining. The US Treasury has aggressively targeted Iranian crypto activities in 2026, freezing over $1 billion in assets and sanctioning major Iranian crypto platforms. This move highlights Iran's growing reliance on cryptocurrency to stabilize its economy and evade sanctions, while the US intensifies enforcement efforts.
Tether is building Hypersearch, a decentralized peer-to-peer search engine using distributed hash table technology to avoid central servers. The project, announced in April 2026, has demonstrated a working P2P Wikipedia search engine, showing the pot...
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino revealed a strategy to transform the stablecoin issuer into a diversified financial powerhouse by accumulating large reserves of Bitcoin and physical gold. The company has been purchasing 1-2 tons of gold weekly, amassing abo...
Bitcoin remains stuck below $80,000 following stronger-than-expected US payroll data that revived fears of a Federal Reserve rate hike. Despite a sharp drop and liquidations, market expectations for a Fed hike remain steady, with the upcoming CPI rep...
Tether, the issuer of the world's largest stablecoin USDT, now holds over $122 billion in US Treasury bills, making it one of the top buyers of American government debt. With USDT's market cap around $185 billion, Tether allocates about 83% of its re...
