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El Salvador’s Bitcoin Bond Delays Continue; Investor Interest Wanes: Report
30.8.2022
It’s the latest in a string of delays for the planned $1 billion bond offering
Tether Hires BDO Italia for Monthly Assurance Reports, USDT’s Quarterly Attestation Shows a 58% Decrease in Commercial Paper
20.8.2022
This week, the stablecoin issuer Tether Holdings Limited revealed an update to its assurance and attestation process and detailed that the company has been working with accounting firm BDO Italia. The accounting firm will conduct monthly tether assurance reports based on the stablecoin...
Survey That Asks if The Merge Could Cause an Ethereum Chain Split Sparks PoS Delay Discussions
31.7.2022
While there’s 50 days left until the week of September 19, the crypto community has been discussing whether or not Ethereum developers will delay the penciled-in date for The Merge. Moreover, on July 27, the crypto hedge fund Galois Capital published a survey on Twitter that indicates more...
Bitfinex to Donate $1.3 Million Worth of BTC and USDT to Communities in El Salvador
15.7.2022
The crypto exchange Bitfinex announced on Thursday that the trading platform plans to donate 36 bitcoin and $600K worth of tether tokens to help bolster communities and small businesses located in El Salvador. According to Bitfinex, the funds will initially target small businesses in Salvadoran...
Tether CTO refutes stablecoin FUD as short-sellers circle
28.6.2022
Paolo Ardoino alleged some hedge funds are trying to create pressure “in the billions” to “harm Tether liquidity” so that they can eventually buy back tokens at a much lower price
Tether Launches Stablecoin Pegged to the British Pound Sterling
22.6.2022
Tether, the company behind the largest stablecoin by market capitalization, has announced another fiat-pegged stablecoin called GBPT on Wednesday, tied to the value of the British pound sterling. The news follows Tether’s most recent launch of a Mexican peso-pegged crypto asset called MXNT....
Tether Launches on Polygon, USDT Stablecoin Now Hosted on 11 Blockchain Networks
28.5.2022
Following the company launching a fiat-pegged tied to the value of the Mexican peso, Tether, the stablecoin issuer has announced the firm has launched tether tokens on the Polygon network. The Polygon integration follows the stablecoin being added to the Avalanche and Kusama blockchain networks....
‘Other flavors of Tether’ will bridge users to USDT: Paolo Ardoino
26.5.2022
Through a peso-backed stablecoin, Tether is basically “recreating forex markets with Tether products,” Ardoino said
Tether Launches Tokens Pegged to the Mexican Peso on Ethereum, Tron, and Polygon
26.5.2022
The stablecoin issuer Tether Operations Limited has announced the company has launched a new fiat-pegged token tied to the value of the Mexican peso. According to the team the newly launched MXNT tokens will be initially hosted on Ethereum, Polygon, and Tron. MXNT Stablecoin Is Pegged 1:1 to...
Tether CTO: Terra wasn’t a rug pull, it was a poorly designed ‘castle of cards’
20.5.2022
“It was clear to me, it was clear to many that I know that it was a bad idea,” said Tether and Bitfinex CTO Paolo Ardoino
FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Thinks Bitcoin Has No Future as a Payments Network
18.5.2022
Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has given his take regarding the future of Bitcoin’s usage. Bankman-Fried stated he doesn’t believe that Bitcoin will work as a payments network, due to its limited capability for scaling to fulfill this task. However...
Tether's Paolo Ardoino on UST: 'It's All Fun and Games' Until You're a $100B Coin
18.4.2022
If the algorithmic-based stablecoin keeps growing this fast, there could be major risks to market stability, analysts and researchers say
Stablecoins are the perfect trojan horse for Bitcoin, says Tether CTO
13.4.2022
Bitfinex and Tether CTO, Paolo Ardoino spoke to Cointelegraph about cryptocurrency adoption in Europe
The Old Nintendo Headquarters Hotel Looks Stunning Inside
31.3.2022
When it was announced that Nintendo’s former headquarters was going to be turned into a hotel, I imagined the worse case scenario: a cheesy cash-in to make some quick yen. That certainly doesn’t appear to be the end result. The hotel looks to be a stunning celebration of Nintendo’s heritage. Read...
Largest Stablecoin by Market Cap Tether Launches on the Avalanche Network
10.11.2021
The largest stablecoin by market capitalization, tether has announced the launch of tethers on the Avalanche blockchain protocol. The stablecoin tether has launched a myriad of blockchain networks and today there’s more than 74.8 billion tethers in circulation today. Tether Launches...
Italian Payments Giant Nexi Involved in Digital Euro Project
24.9.2021
Nexi, a leading European payments company, is reportedly giving advice to the European Central Bank (ECB) related to the digital euro project. The announcement was made by Nexi’s CEO Paolo Bertoluzzo, who also gave his opinion about the future of central bank digital currencies (CBDC)...
FTX Slashes Leverage Limit from 100x to 20x — Community Suspects Competitors Will Follow Example
26.7.2021
FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried told his Twitter followers on Sunday that his crypto exchange has lowered its margin trading limit from 101x to 20x. Prior to the change, FTX supported 50x, 100x, and 101x leverage but Bankman-Fried said these high leverage positions represent “a tiny fraction...
Commodity Strategist Mike McGlone Says $40K BTC Target ‘More Likely’ Than $20K
9.6.2021
Bloomberg Intelligence senior commodity strategist Mike McGlone believes bitcoin is “more likely” headed for $40K instead of $20K after discussing the possibility of capitulation in a recent tweet. McGlone’s opinion follows a number of predictions that say bitcoin could drop...
Daily Cryptocurrency Exchange Trade Volume Taps All-Time High, Stablecoin Swaps Dominate
24.5.2021
According to this week’s data, cryptocurrency trade volume touched an all-time high on May 20, reaching $1.76 trillion in reported 24-hour volume. Daily trade volume statistics for Monday have been high, as reported volume from crypto market aggregators shows over $300 billion in 24-hour...
Tether to Launch USDT Natively on Avalanche
18.5.2021
The blockchain company Tether has announced it will make available its stablecoin token as a native asset in Avalanche, a smart contract platform that has picked steam in the last year. Avalanche has a growing decentralized finance (defi) ecosystem, so this launch will most likely improve...