Tether’s USDT minting on Ethereum hits $1B, signaling stablecoin dominance
Late last night, Tether, the world’s largest stablecoin issuer, minted another billion USDT tokens on the Ethereum network. According to Tether CTO Paolo Ardoino, this is part of an “inventory replenish” and will be used to meet the next period of issuance requests and chain swaps. As the most popular stablecoin in the crypto industry, USDT is pegged 1:1 to the United States dollar and is widely used to facilitate trading on large exchanges that don’t accept fiat currencies. On the Ethereum blockchain, Tether has emerged as the dominant stablecoin issuer, with over 35 billion tokens. Its closest competitor, USDC,