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 tailored for markets with slow, costly traditional banking. This partnership addresses currency instability in African countries and supports faster, cheaper cross-border transactions between Africa and GCC. Shiga’s existing $350 million transaction volume highlights strong demand for these stablecoin solutions in underserved regions.
Tether's USDT trades at Rp17.969 on Pluang with a slight 0.30% increase as of Sep 28, 2026 19:21 WIB, reflecting steady demand for the stablecoin. The platform shows a market cap of Rp3.305,74 trillion and a 24-hour trading volume of Rp1.303,88 trillion, indicating active liquidity. This stablecoin activity supports the news of Tether's partnership with Shiga to enhance self-custodial finance solutions in Africa and the GCC, regions benefiting from faster and cheaper cross-border payments.
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...
Tether has frozen 218,022.97 USDT connected to the Bitget security breach to prevent further movement of the stolen stablecoins. This action followed Circle's earlier freeze of about 100,000 USDC related to the same incident. The stolen funds were mo...
Circle froze 100,000 USDC tokens held at a crypto address connected to stolen funds from a Bitget hack. The same address also holds 218,000 USDT tokens, which remain unfrozen as of the latest update. The USDC funds were idle for over two and a half h...
