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Policy

S&P Faults Biggest Stablecoin, Tether's USDT, as It Debuts New Industry Ranking

USDT was assigned a low score of four, meaning the largest stablecoin is constrained in its ability to maintain its peg to fiat, the rating agency says.

Ratings company S&P Global has started ranking stablecoins' ability to hold their pegs. (eswaran arulkumar/Unsplash)

Markets

Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick Is a Bitcoin Maxi and Tether Fan

He said Cantor Fitzgerald is a custodian of the U.S. Treasuries that Tether holds to back its USDT stablecoin.

Cantor Fitzgerald's Howard Lutnick (World Economic Forum)

Finance

Tether Freezes 41 Crypto Wallets Tied to Sanctions

Several of the frozen wallets had been using Tornado Cash over the past six months.

(Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Consensus Magazine

Paolo Ardoino: The Hardest Working Man in Crypto

The newly promoted CEO of Tether is looking to diversify the firm's investments after a banner year where the stablecoin giant is on track to profit $4.5 billion.

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino (Mason Webb/CoinDesk)

Finance

Tether Deposits of $1B With UK Financial Firm Are at Center of High Court Battle: FT

Tether deposited the funds with a subsidiary of investment bank Britannia Financial, according to the report, which cited filings made in the High Court.

(Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Finance

Tether Freezes $225M Linked to Human Trafficking Syndicate Amid DOJ Investigation

The $225 million was related to the "pig butchering" scam.

Tether freezes $225 million worth of its stablecoin (Jorge Salvador/Unsplash)

Policy

Crypto at the Center of $300M Fraud Case in China

21 people were sentenced in a case involving converting 'dirty' USDT to RMB.

China renminbi bills (Moerschy/Pixabay)

Finance

Tether Reports $3.2B Excess Reserves, but Lags in Reducing Secured Loans

The USDT stablecoin currently has a market cap of roughly $84 billion.

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino (Bitfinex)

Tech

Almost All Crypto Employees Take Pay in Fiat, Pantera Study Finds

The median compensation globally among 570 engineers surveyed was $120,000, with those in North America getting $193,000, up 1.5% versus the prior year, based on the study.

(PM Images/Getty Images)

Finance

Stablecoin Issuer Tether Ventures Into AI With Northern Data in $427M Nvidia Chip Splurge

Damoon, a Tether subsidiary in which Northern Group acquired a stake earlier this year, has purchased $427 million of Nvidia chips for generative AI cloud computing.

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino (Bitfinex)