Tether’s Endgame? Ardoino Says It’ll Become A ‘Gold Central Bank’
Tether is rapidly expanding its physical gold footprint, with CEO Paolo Ardoino casting the stablecoin issuer less like a fintech and more like a central bank. “We are soon becoming basically one of the biggest, let’s say, gold central banks in the world,” Ardoino said in an interview with Bloomberg, as the company disclosed buying […]
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Quick Facts: 1️⃣ Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino reaffirmed that Bitcoin and gold will outlast every fiat currency, echoing Tether’s strategy of holding both as reserve assets. 2️⃣ $BTC is up 23% YTD and gold 55.95%, while the U.S. dollar index has fallen nearly 9%. 3️⃣ Tether continues allocating up to 15% of profits into Bitcoin […]
Through a peso-backed stablecoin, Tether is basically “recreating forex markets with Tether products,” Ardoino said. Tether’s decision to launch a new digital asset pegged to the Mexican peso will be a boon to crypto adoption in the Central American country by providing more onramps to the USDT stablecoin, according to Paolo Ardoino. In an exclusive interview with Cointelegraph on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum summit, the Tether and Bitfinex chief technology officer said the reason he came to Davos was to showcase the utility of cryptocurrencies. “I didn’t participate in Davos....
Wall Street Journal's Jean Eaglesham and Vicky Ge Huang suggested that such a “thin cushion of equity” could cause mayhem in the market if Tether’s liabilities were to outweigh its assets. An article in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has claimed that Tether’s balance sheet is in a position that even a 0.3% drop in value of its reserve assets could “render Tether technically insolvent.”In an Aug. 27 report, WSJ journalists Jean Eaglesham and Vicky Ge Huang focused on the cloudy nature of Tether’s USDT reserves and its long-awaited audit that has been in the works since 2017. Eaglesham and....
Arthur Hayes, the BitMEX co-founder, warned late last month that Tether’s shift into Bitcoin and gold could leave the stablecoin exposed if those assets tumble. Related Reading: Bitcoin Reflects Energy As The ‘True Currency,’ Elon Musk Says According to Hayes, a roughly 30% drop in Tether’s BTC and gold holdings could erase the company’s equity […]
Deutsche Bank’s Research Institute argues that Bitcoin is on track to sit alongside gold in central bank reserves by the end of this decade, provided current adoption and market-structure trends persist. In a paper published on September 22, 2025, research analysts Marion Laboure and Camilla Siazon conclude “there is room for both gold and Bitcoin […]