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.
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...
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...
