The circulating supply of TRC20-USDT, Tether's stablecoin on the TRON blockchain, has reached a new all-time high of 87.3 billion tokens. This milestone reflects strong demand for low-fee, fast stablecoin transfers on TRON, widely used for exchange settlements and peer-to-peer payments. The record boosts TRON's liquidity, enhancing its capacity for on-chain transfers, swaps, and DeFi activities. Future trends in circulation will indicate whether this demand is sustained or temporary, with implications for TRON's ecosystem and stablecoin competition across blockchains.
A Senate subcommittee report revealed that Iran used Tether's USDT stablecoin to move value around U.S. sanctions, with 84% of 846 sanctioned wallets linked to Iran having used USDT. The report criticized Tether for delays in freezing some wallets. T...
Tether has invested in Abu Dhabi fintech Shiga Digital to expand self-custodial digital asset services in Africa and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Using Tether's Wallet Development Kit, Shiga will offer USDT-powered payments and treasury tools ...
Binance Wallet has introduced the ability to pay blockchain gas fees using USDT on BNB Smart Chain, Ethereum, Solana, and TRON networks. This removes the previous requirement for users to hold each network's native gas token before making transaction...
Tether has introduced beta command-line and Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools to its Wallet Development Kit, enabling AI clients to interact with self-custodial wallets locally. These tools support wallet management functions such as creation, unloc...
After the Bitget hack stole $387.5 million, Circle and Tether froze about $318,000 in stablecoins from one hacker address. However, the majority of the stolen funds, over 63,000 ETH worth around $170 million, remain unfrozen as no issuer can block Et...
