World's Largest Stablecoin Tether Passes $50B Market Capitalization

World’s Largest Stablecoin Tether Passes $50B Market Capitalization

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Tether Market Cap Swells Past $50 Billion, USDT Stablecoin Gets Listed on Coinbase Pro – Bitcoin News

Tether Market Cap Swells Past $50 Billion, USDT Stablecoin Gets Listed on Coinbase Pro

The blockchain stablecoin issuer Tether Operations Limited has recently surpassed a $50 billion market valuation after seeing exponential growth during the last few years. Furthermore, the stablecoin tether has launched on the trading platform Coinbase Pro this week marking the San Francisco-based exchange’s first time supporting the dollar-pegged token.

Tether Market Cap Increases by 170% in 6 Months

The blockchain company has reached a milestone this week as the firm’s dollar-pegged token USDT has surpassed a $50 billion market capitalization. Back in November 2020, Bitcoin.com News reported on how USDT towered over the stablecoin competition, as the market cap grew by 2 million percent in four years. At that time, records had shown tether’s (USDT) market valuation was around $18.5 billion. At $50 billion today, the USDT market valuation increased by 170.27% since November.

Tether Operations Limited says that the skyrocketing market cap stems from a myriad of use cases including spot exchanges leveraging tether and decentralized finance (defi) applications using the stablecoin. Data from Messari.io shows that reported daily volume for tether is around $117 billion and usually reported daily USDT volume is over the $100 billion mark every day. 24 hour “Real Volume” stats from Messari.io indicate that USDT volume could really be around $38.80 billion on April 26. This is still the largest crypto in terms of traded volume on a daily basis, in comparison to top crypto assets like ETH and BTC.

“Crossing a market cap of US$50 billion represents an incredibly important milestone for Tether,” Paolo Ardoino, the CTO at Tether explained after reaching the $50 billion market cap milestone. “When the group of visionaries that created Tether in 2014 first launched the stablecoin they could not have dreamt that it would have grown so exponentially. Tether’s success is a blueprint for a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) and a banking system of the future. We are truly humbled by the pivotal role that Tether now plays in the digital token ecosystem across myriad protocols and applications.”

Coinbase Pro Starts to List Tether Trading Pairs in Phases, Stablecoin Is Not Supported on Coinbase.com Yet

When tether (USDT) first came out, the stablecoin was issued via the Bitcoin (BTC) network by using the Omni Layer Protocol. Since then, the token has branched off into multiple blockchains and USDT has been issued on blockchain networks like Ethereum, Solana, Tron, Bitcoin Cash, EOS, Liquid, and Algorand. Moreover, tether’s ERC20 version is leveraged on various defi applications and decentralized exchange (dex) platforms. USDT is used on a myriad of centralized spot exchanges all across the globe and just recently the token was added to Coinbase Pro.

“Starting immediately,” Coinbase said. “We will begin accepting inbound transfers of USDT to Coinbase Pro. Trading will begin on or after 6 p.m. Pacific Time (PT) Monday, April 26, if liquidity conditions are met. Please note that Coinbase only supports ERC20 USDT.”

If everything works out and a sufficient supply of USDT is established on the Coinbase platform, the exchange will offer tether pairs in BTC, ETH, EUR, GBP, USD, and USDC. But if there is not enough liquidity for one pair, the pairing may get removed. Coinbase says that it will announce each tether pair listing in phases and USDT will not be available yet on Coinbase.com.

“We will make a separate announcement if and when this support is added,” the San Francisco exchange’s announcement concludes.

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Tether market capitalization hits $50 billion as use of the US dollar stablecoin grows

In this photo illustration, a smartphone displays the Tether market value on the stock exchange via The Crypto App. Photo Illustration by Guillaume Payen/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Tether surpassed a market capitalization of $50 billion on Sunday.

The fifth-largest cryptocurrency has more than doubled its value since the start of 2021.

Data shows that tether had the highest sentiment score across social media, news, and other online content.

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The US dollar stablecoin Tether surpassed a market capitalization of $50 billion on Sunday.

A stabelcoin is a type of cryptocurrency that is backed by a reserve. In the case of tether, or USDt, it is pegged to the dollar, affording it more stability compared to other cryptocurrencies.

Paolo Ardoino, CTO at Tether, said this $50 billion mark has been a milestone since Tether’s founding in 2014. This means that there are now more than 50 billion USDt in circulation, with daily trading volume exceeding $140 billion, data from CoinGecko shows.

“Tether’s success is a blueprint for a central bank digital currency and a banking system of the future,” he said in a statement. “We are truly humbled by the pivotal role that tether now plays in the digital token ecosystem across myriad protocols and applications.”

The exponential growth of tether - doubling from $18 billion at the start of 2021 - indicates growing use and positive sentiment toward the stablecoin.

Data from Sentifi, an alternative data company, on Monday show that tether had the highest sentiment score across social media, news, and other online content.

On April 22, newly listed Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the US, gave its stamp of approval by listing tether to Coinbase Pro.

Still, tether is not without controversy. The fifth-largest cryptocurrency and most popular stablecoin by market capitalization went through a legal battle with New York that began in 2019.

“Tether’s claims that its virtual currency was fully backed by US dollars at all times was a lie,” New York Attorney General Letitia James said in a February 2021 statement, banning the stablecoin from trading in the state.

She continued: “These companies obscured the true risk investors faced and were operated by unlicensed and unregulated individuals and entities dealing in the darkest corners of the financial system.”

Tether agreed to pay an $18.5 million fine to settle the dispute, though admitted to no wrongdoing.

“Contrary to online speculation, after two and half years there was no finding that Tether ever issued tethers without backing, or to manipulate crypto prices,” it said in a statement.

Since the start of the year, tether added $29 billion to its market cap, a gain that is greater than the combined valuation of all rival stablecoins.

Tether peaked at an all-time high of $1.26 in July 02018, according to CoinGecko. When it first debuted, the price of each token was $1.