The Senate of the United States is now investigating Tether’s USDT in relation to crypto dealings that have connections to Iran. This investigation was led by Senator Richard Blumenthal through the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. The Senate analyzed transactions involving 846 crypto wallets that it had sanctioned or considered
A former CCB Asia manager was sentenced to four years in prison after accepting more than $470,000 in Tether bribes. The bribes were linked to false letters of credit and collateral documents with a combined stated value exceeding $1.6 billion A former China Construction Bank (Asia) relationship manager has been
The Tether group has made efforts in moving beyond stablecoins. They brought institutional real estate tokenization in Saudi Arabia using its Hadron platform. This company has entered into a partnership with First Data and fintech company BKN301. Basically to enable the issuance and administration of tokenized real estate assets for
Fintech companies have taken an awestruck look at the world of digital assets. Recently, the CEO of Tether, Paolo Ardoino, announced some remarkable figures about the user base of the firm. Currently, USDT is seeing more than 30 million new wallets getting added every quarter. In the third quarter of
Tether has frozen four wallets on the TRON network holding a combined $131 million in USDT. The funds have been linked to two of the most heavily sanctioned entities, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the Central Bank of Iran. Moreover, both are sitting on the U.S. Treasury’s OFAC
Tether revealed its plans to cease support for its derivative gold stablecoin aUSDT after the organization decided to change its product strategy. The organization released the stablecoin in 2024 through Alloy by Tether. Itsa platform created to tokenize digital assets using tokenized collateral. In this case, users were able to
The Golden Month Giveaway, a month-long referral and trading promotion focused on gold-backed digital assets, was jointly introduced by Tether, the biggest firm in the digital asset sector, and Bybit, the second-largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world by trading volume. In addition to Lucky Draw entries for a chance to
The U.S. federal court permitted the Tether/Bitfinex crypto case yesterday to proceed as a class action. Although the case of investors claims that both companies influenced Bitcoin and Ethereum prices at the time of the 2018 crypto boom using newly issued USDT tokens. A federal judge in New York permitted
Tether has frozen approximately $4.2 billion worth of its USDT stablecoin over links to illicit activity, the company confirmed. The El Salvador-based issuer said it carried out most of these freezes in the past three years as global enforcement efforts intensified. The stablecoin giant, which now has more than $180
Tether has observed another fall in the market capitalization of its major stablecoin, Tether, for the second consecutive month. It is noted that the market capitalization of USDT reduced from above $186 billion in January to close to $183 billion in February. This reduction is one of the most prominent
