Key Highlights Polygon has surpassed 8.1 million Tether ($USDT) holders, establishing the largest USDT holder base across all blockchain networks. The growth milestone was highlighted by the commentator @0xPolygon on Twitter, underscoring the expanding stablecoin adoption on the layer-2 network. This surge in holders reflects robust network engagement and infrastructure strength, even amid mixed market ...
Key Highlights Circle and Tether froze approximately $320,000 in USDC and USDT stablecoins linked to the Bitget exchange hack, leveraging built-in blacklist controls. The attacker moved roughly 54 million XRP from the original five holding wallets overnight, reducing the balance from 70 million to 49 million tokens in eight hours. XRP traded near $1.54 on ...
Chainflip Loses $736,442 in USDT Through TRON Memo Exploit Cross-chain protocol Chainflip suffered a security breach resulting in the loss of 736,442.17 USDT after an attacker exploited how the platform processes TRON transaction memos. The incident occurred during the early hours of September 12, prompting the protocol to pause operations while developers investigated and prepared ...
Tether CEOās āDecentralized Ownershipā Claim Faces Scrutiny Over Legal and Economic Reality Paolo Ardoino offered a striking answer to a familiar U.S. debt problem: replace concentrated foreign buyers with hundreds of millions of stablecoin users. In an Aug. 31 episode of The Wolf of All Streets, the Tether CEO said the company had created the ...
Tether and Fasanara Capital Launch $400M StableFund to Bridge SME Financing Gap With USDT Infrastructure Tether and Fasanara Capital announced the launch of StableFund on September 9, unveiling an evergreen private credit vehicle backed by $400 million in co-investment from the two sponsors. The fund combines Tetherās USDT settlement infrastructure with Fasanaraās global fintech lending ...
A new study from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York reveals that dollar-pegged stablecoins flow more aggressively into digital wallets linked to countries undergoing currency or banking crises, highlighting a growing challenge for central banks attempting to manage capital flight. Crisis-Linked Wallets Show Higher Stablecoin Receipts Researchers Pablo Azar, Maryam Farboodi, and Nish Sinha ...
The Bolivarian National Police in Venezuela recently arrested three young men in Maracaibo, accusing them of running an illicit currency arbitrage ring through the peer-to-peer (P2P) platform of the cryptocurrency exchange Binance. The enforcement action has ignited a critical discussion among local crypto traders about where lawful P2P transactions end and criminal activity begins under ...