Stablecoin issuer Tether fulfills promise by reducing certificate holdings to zero – Bitcoin News

by James · October 13, 2022

Stablecoin issuer Tether fulfills its promise by reducing its certificate holdings down to zero

On October 13, 2022, Tether Holdings Limited announced that the stablecoin issuer has reduced the company’s certificate holdings down to zero. The company has said it would reach this goal for some time now, and Tether says shrinking its certificate holdings to zero “demonstrates Tether’s commitment to backing its tokens with the safest reserves in the market.”

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Tether Axes $30 Billion in Certificate Holdings, Firm Leverages US Treasury Bills Instead

The company behind the largest stablecoin by market capitalization, Tether, has revealed that USDT’s reserves are exposed to US Treasury bonds (T-Bills), as opposed to certificate holdings. The announcement follows the statement made by Tether’s chief technology officer Paolo Ardoino on October 3.

At the time, Ardoino explained that US T-bills represented more than 58% of the company’s reserves, and he further stated ” [Commercial paper] exposure is [less than] 50 million now.” The company that manages USDT, a stablecoin with a market cap of around $68.53 billion, believes the decision to delete certificate holdings is positive for the crypto industry as a whole.

“Reducing certificates to zero demonstrates Tether’s commitment to backing its tokens with the safest reserves in the market,” the company said Thursday. “This is a step towards even greater transparency and trust, not only for Tether, but for the entire stablecoin industry.”

Tether’s Move Follows The Terra Stablecoin Collapse 5 Months Ago, Both Tether And Usd Coin Have Shed Billions Since Then

Tether’s move follows the issues surrounding the Terra blockchain and the UST de-pegging event last May. Furthermore, a handful of stablecoins have de-pegged from the $1 parity following UST’s collapse. The news also follows stablecoin USDC’s market capitalization which has deflated over the past few months to its current value of around $45.82 billion.

USDT’s market cap also fell, following the Terra collapse, when Bitcoin.com News reported in mid-June that the number of USDT in circulation fell by over 12 billion coins in two months. Despite declines in USDT and USDC in circulation, stablecoins remain the top two stablecoin assets by market capitalization, and the third (USDT) and fourth (USDC) largest cryptoassets by valuation.

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Jamie Redman

Jamie Redman is the news editor at Bitcoin.com News and a financial technology journalist living in Florida. Redman has been an active member of the cryptocurrency community since 2011. He has a passion for Bitcoin, open source and decentralized applications. Since September 2015, Redman has written more than 6,000 articles for Bitcoin.com News about the disruptive protocols emerging today.