Tether

Paolo Ardoino is the CEO of Tether, the $100 Billion stablecoin company that owns more U.S. Treasuries than most countries.

We explore why Tether is winning, how it’s helping people in emerging markets and what really backs a $USDT. We also cover the state of the stablecoin regulation and even market competitors.

Tether has been and it’s still a target of Fud in the Crypto industry. Paolo is here to refute that Fud and much more.

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Intro
6:52 Paolo Background
11:01 The History of Tether
15:40 USDT in Emerging Markets
25:30 Why not Bitcoin?
28:25 What’s Backing Tether?
42:25 Banking Risks
54:59 Tether Reserves Breakdown
59:39 Becoming Too Big
1:06:23 The Stablecoin Wars
1:11:18 Freezing Funds
1:13:45 USDT Competitors
1:16:59 Tokenized T-Bills
1:19:55 Tether on Tron
1:24:53 Regulation
1:26:14 The Value of Tether
1:29:10 Closing & Disclaimers

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RESOURCES

Paolo Ardoino
https://twitter.com/paoloardoino 

Tether Transparency Reports
https://tether.to/en/transparency/#reports  

Circle’s Caroline Hill on Congress
https://twitter.com/Pledditor/status/1758243599446089799  

JPMorgan negative on Tether
https://www.theblock.co/post/275643/jpmorgan-tether-negative-crypto  

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On the fifteenth episode of Interlinked, Ben, Jarred and Nick are joined by Luc Michael the CEO & Founder of Octavian Studios. Octavian Studios is developing The Fabled. The episode kicks off with a deep dive into The Fabled. Key discussions include the psychology of game difficulty, airdrop season, Tether's treasury holdings and much more. 

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Dans la fascinante industrie des crypto-actifs, Tether (USDT) s'est taillé la part du lion en 2023, avec des performances qui feraient pâlir d'envie même les plus grandes institutions financières. Avec un USDT dont la capitalisation flirte avec les 100 milliards de dollars, ce géant des stablecoins a écrasé la concurrence. On y revient dans l’Analyse Cryptique, après les actualités essentielles de la semaine. 

Zeke Faux, an investigative reporter for Bloomberg and the author of “Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall,” goes behind the scenes on Sam Bankman Fried’s conviction last week, including his interviews with the former FTX leader and what it means for the industry at large.

Au menu de ce Crypto Recap : Tether s'envole au Salvador pour miner des cryptomonnaies, Binance Pay va proposer le paiement en cryptomonnaies chez les commerçants en France, les NFTs débarquent dans la Justice française, Do Kwon pourrait être extradé aux Etats-Unis et l'Analyse Cryptique de la semaine sur la répression réglementaire de l'autre côté de l'Atlantique. 

Tether blacklists the MEV exploiter wallet. Voltz Labs announces its V2 generalizable margin engine. Reddit launches Gen3 collectible avatars. And Fire raises a $3.5 million funding round.

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