USDT is a US dollar-pegged stablecoin issued by Tether, the largest stablecoin by market value, widely used for crypto trading and transfers.
FinteqHub says the share of companies settling directly in crypto fell from 62% to 39% between the first halves of 2025 and 2026. Its definition of direct excludes conversion and routing, so part of the drop may be payments moving into routed stablecoin settlement.
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Standard Chartered moved its $2 trillion stablecoin forecast from 2028 to 2030 as supply stalled near $309 billion. Geoffrey Kendrick, its head of digital assets research, ties the stall to weak crypto markets, and Allium data show trading still outweighs payments.
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Tether joined the seed round of EFY Finance, which says it settles to local accounts in 17 countries. Tether did not disclose what it paid, how big the round was or at what valuation, so the price of that reach cannot be worked out.
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BIS researchers link each basis point of US deposit-rate increase to about 4.8% less USDC growth over ten weeks, against 1.9% for USDT. A single deposit-rate assumption for all stablecoins would hide that gap, CryptoSlate reported.
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ESMA told national regulators to have MiCA-authorised crypto firms stop servicing non-compliant stablecoins by 8 January 2027. The notice is supervisory guidance, so the date binds only as far as each national authority enforces it.
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Japanese police arrested six people, including a staffing firm's president, over alleged crypto laundering of about 91 million yen of scam money. Police allege the firm took about 1% to convert victims' money, so the case is built on the conversion service.
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Tether froze about 1.45 million USDT in four THORChain vaults on Tron, taking the protocol's Tron swaps offline. That is about 3% of THORChain's liquidity, and it left Tron-side liquidity providers holding tokens that cannot move.
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Ledger paused sales through authorized reseller CryptoBilis after investigators put suspected losses among its customers near $90 million. How the wallets were breached is still unknown. Ledger's fix is a new device with a fresh recovery phrase, which puts the suspicion on the sales channel.
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Scott Bessent said the US could seize up to $1 billion in Iran-linked crypto this week, nearly twice the $550 million Tether says it helped freeze this year. How much work falls on issuers and exchanges depends on whether that figure is new money or USDT already frozen at blocked addresses.
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Senator Richard Blumenthal asked Brandon Lutnick, the Commerce Secretary's son, to explain Cantor Fitzgerald's ties to Tether, whose US reserves Cantor holds. Cointelegraph reported his estimate that the stake is worth $10 billion, a holding he can question now and could subpoena records on if Democrats take the Senate.
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Crypto card spending rose 33% to $4.31 billion in the third quarter, Cryptopolitan reported. The outlet credits USDC with the growth, though its own September figures suggest the two big stablecoins paid for under half of that spending.
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ESMA told national regulators to make MiCA-authorized crypto firms clear their remaining exposure to non-compliant stablecoins by Jan. 8, 2027. New buying stops first, so the three months are an exit window in which platforms find out whether client balances get converted in-house or withdrawn.
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ESMA's October 8 opinion tells EU supervisors to make licensed crypto firms stop custody and transfers of unauthorised stablecoins within three months. MiCA enforcement now reaches the balances platforms still hold, though each national supervisor decides how leftovers are unwound.
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Senator Richard Blumenthal's staff found that 84% of 846 sanctioned, terror-linked wallets relied heavily on Tether's USDT. He wants Treasury and Justice to examine Tether's sanctions and money-laundering controls, though neither agency has yet announced an inquiry.
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Polkadot launched dotUSD, a stablecoin it says has no issuing company, minted one-for-one against Tether's USDT. Each token rests on reserves Tether can freeze until a DOT-backed second phase arrives, and Cryptopolitan reported that phase has no launch date.
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Decrypt's self-custodial Solana accounts let readers fund prediction markets, swaps, perps and yield from one balance inside its news app. Sister brand Myriad, which Crypto Briefing reports has handled over $600 million in prediction volume, now gets the newsroom's readers as customers.
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Polygon Labs linked its Open Money Stack to TRON, where over $94 billion of USDT circulates, giving payment firms one vendor for ramps and transfers. Firms keep their licensing obligations, so the saving is vendor work, while Polygon sits in flows that need not touch its own chain.
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Conduit sued Tether in New York federal court over $2.76 million in USDT it says Tether's own crime unit froze 376 days before filing. Until a judge rules on whether Tether may do that, firms keeping working capital in USDT have to plan for a lock lasting more than a year.
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Tether signed a non-binding MoU with Kazakhstan's central bank on a tenge stablecoin and pilots in Alatau City, where up to $60 million is to be tokenized. Nothing has been approved, and the parties have yet to choose an issuer, a blockchain or a reserve structure for the token.
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Gate launched Gate Money, letting its more than 60 million users hold, convert and spend cash, crypto, stocks and gold from one account. Founder Lin Han promises conversions at any hour but has not explained how a stock sold after the market shuts would be priced.
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