Tether and Fasanara Capital have launched StableFund, a private credit fund seeded with $400 million and targeting $3 billion from institutional investors. The fund aims to use Tether's USDT stablecoin infrastructure to speed up lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and consumers worldwide, focusing on short-duration, asset-backed loans. This initiative addresses a $5.7 trillion global SME financing gap by leveraging crypto-native settlement rails to improve cross-border loan disbursements and repayments. The fund's success will indicate institutional appetite for crypto-integrated finance, though risks include regulatory uncertainty and infrastructure challenges across multiple jurisdictions.
A new working paper from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) shows that rising bank deposit rates in the U.S. predict slower growth in the stablecoin market from 2019 to 2025. The effect is stronger for Circle's USDC than Tether's USDT, like...
XRP accounted for the largest share of domestic crypto trading at 15.99%, with STX showing the highest domestic trading intensity relative to its global presence, at 46.24 times higher. Other tokens like ONDO and WLD also had significantly higher dom...
AIsa, an AI infrastructure startup, announced it has raised over $9 million in cumulative funding after Tether and HIVEN joined a seed extension round. The company connects AI agents to external data and services while managing usage, billing, and sp...
Businesses accepting Tether USD (USDT) on the TRON blockchain face network costs that vary based on Energy and Bandwidth consumption during transactions. Energy covers contract execution and has no free allocation, while Bandwidth covers transaction ...
As of October 17, Tether (USDT) and USD Coin (USDC) together accounted for 84.7% of the $302.5 billion stablecoin market, with a combined market cap of $256.1 billion. USDT held $183.4 billion, while USDC was valued at $72.7 billion. Other stablecoin...
