Tether is the great cover of the world of crypts. Aspires to value 500,000 million for doing something simplistic: save foreign money

Tether Holdings SA is the company responsible for issuing and controlling the most important stablcoin in the world – also called “Tether” (USDT) -. And those responsible are in negotiations with investors for lift up to 20,000 million dollars. If that round becomes effective, Tether would become a company with an assessment of 500,000 million dollars, and the question is obvious: how can a company be worth so much that nobody has heard? What is Tether (USDT). Launched in 2014, Tether is a cryptocurrency With its own block chain. It is designed to facilitate the use of Fiat currencies (such as the dollar or the euro) digital. Tether is specifically A stablecoina cryptocurrency whose value is strongly linked to the US dollar, which makes its volatility virtually nil. One would think that it is much more interesting to operate with Bitcoins or Ethereum, but care: Tether is a giant for a much simpler reason than it seems. As big as Netflix. If this investment round is confirmed, Tether would be at the level of companies such as Netflix, the 18th company for market capitalization According to Companies Market Cap. Unlike other technological companies focused on future innovation, Tether is a company whose business model is strongly tied to current cash flow. Sources close to negotiations talk that this investment round could be “significantly lower”, so the estimated assessment could be much lower. Interest gains. This is Tether’s main source of income. For each USDT token, the company keeps an equivalent amount in reservations, and does so largely in assets that generate interest, such as US Treasury Bonds. Its current market value is 173,000 million dollars, and thanks to that you can invest those huge reserves and obtain mass profits. In fact Tether is currently one of the great debt holders of the United States government. Extraordinary benefit margin. The CEO of Tether, Paolo Ardoino, He has affirmed Recently the company has a 99%benefit margin. That means that their COESTE operations are incredibly low compared to their income. Tether Holdings Sa is an efficient money to make money. The reference stable. Its success is also based on having become the most popular stablcoin in the cryptodivsis market. Thus, while the current market assessment of Tether S of 173,000 million dollars, the following stablecoin in relevance is USDC, with an assessment of 74,000 million, less than half. But. Although the company has a privileged position and an apparently promising future, Tether He had problems in the past that also threaten their projection. Thus, in 2021 He had to pay A fine of 41 million dollars for a lawsuit for misrepresenting its reserves. The company has also been criticized for the opacity of its reserves: although it publishes quarterly reports, these are not audited by any of the Big Four (such as PWC or Deloitte), but by less recognized signatures. Regulation. The true Damocles sword for Tether is the regulatory tensions. That has left her out of the US market for years, but the company has moved a card hiring a former White House official and it seems that there is now a clear and favorable approach Bajo Trump. However, the US continues Approve laws that will force Tether to restructure its model to access that market. In Xataka | In 2011 a group of investors bought 80,000 bitcoins. They have been sold by 17,000,000% more expensive

The bags in the US have collapsed. “The Magnificent Seven” of technology and crypts are the most affected

Wall Street is having a 2025 especially black. In the last two years, the S&P 500 index, which brings together 500 of the most important companies in the US, has suffered a 7.39% drop in a month and is at levels of six months ago, just before the US presidential elections. The debacle has been especially notable for large technological ones, and cryptocurrencies have also suffered a remarkable collapse. What is happening? A drop of 5.5 billion dollars. According to The Kobeissi Letterin the last two months both the S&P 500 index and the cryptodivsis segment have seen how 5.5 billion dollars have evaporated. Most of these losses have occurred in the last month, and For example The Nasdaq is just 8% of falling to entering a bearish market for the first time since 2022 “. Investors don’t feel like risk. These experts speak of a sudden change in the “appetite for risk” and we have gone from “extreme greed” to “extreme fear”, which has made many investors rescue their positions to collect benefits. Risks to the US economy in 2025. The investment firm Apollo Global Management He pointed out in December that foresee a 0% probabilities of recession in the US in 2025, but that there was also 90% chance of tariffs starting (as it has been). To this is joined by the fact that cryptocurrencies, which had generated great expectation in 2024, now seem to be generating concernfor example after Trump’s announcement to create a strategic cryptor. Tariffs and fear of recession, probable causes. These forecasts are of course potential arguments to explain these great falls. The Aggressive tariff policy by Donald Trump and the fear of a recession – which the president himself He did not rule out– They are there, and have affected both the stock market values ​​and cryptocurrencies, which have been especially impacted. The “seven magnificent” in free fall. Apple (5%), Microsoft (2%), Alphabet (4%), Amazon (2%), Nvidia, Meta (4%) and Tesla (15%) have experienced significant falls. According to CNBC They lost 750,000 million dollars on Monday: it was the worst day of Nasdaq since 2022. These shares are 14% below their (recent) maximum values. And the crypts, even worse. In the last month Bitcoin has lost more than 15% of its value and It has passed of $ 97,000 levels to the current 81,000. Ethereum is having even worse: It has fallen almost 28 % in the same period. Other crypts such as XRP, Sun or Doge have recorded milder falls between 3% and 6%, but one thing is clear: the crypto segment continues to spread what happens in the technological one. In Europe (for the moment) the bags are not so affected. That volatility of the US Stock Exchange has impacted European stock markets, but for now it has not done so remarkably. The France of France and the FTSE of London fell about 0.9% and the Dax of Germany 1.75%. Meanwhile, in Spain Ibex 35 fell 1.41%, but the next few days and weeks will undoubtedly decisive for the march of markets. Image | Maxim Hopman In Xataka | The United States has decided to start a tariff war. Videogames in physical format will pay Caro

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