{"id":24895,"date":"2025-05-02T13:16:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T13:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=24895"},"modified":"2025-05-02T13:16:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T13:16:58","slug":"tethers-u-s-focussed-stablecoin-could-launch-later-this-year-ceo-paolo-ardoino-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=24895","title":{"rendered":"Tether\u2019s U.S.-Focussed Stablecoin Could Launch Later This Year, CEO Paolo Ardoino Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Tether, the company behind the $148 billion stablecoin USDT, plans to launch its U.S.-focused stablecoin later this year or early 2026 depending on the nation&#8217;s stablecoin legislation, CEO Paolo Ardoino told CNBC in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/05\/02\/crypto-tether-eyes-us-expansion-with-new-stablecoin-as-ceo-courts-washington.html\">interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Realistically, it depends on the timeline of the final legislation on stablecoins, but we are looking at [launching the product] by the end of this year or early next year at the fastest,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ardoino said that the firm&#8217;s flagship USDT token is catered towards users in emerging markets with limited access to U.S. dollars, and the new offering would be a different product.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the U.S., you have to create a payment product, something that could be used by institutions, something that can be used as a competitor of PayPal&#8217;s CashApp,&#8221; he said in the interview. &#8220;That is what we are aiming for.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tether&#8217;s U.S.-based stablecoin plans highlight the firm&#8217;s growing presence in the U.S. as Donald Trump&#8217;s return to the White House allayed regulatory pressure on crypto firms. <\/p>\n<p>Ardoino toured the U.S. earlier this year, giving interviews and speaking at events including at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2025\/03\/12\/tether-s-paolo-ardoino-says-stablecoin-issuer-has-been-through-hell-is-cheered-on-at-cantor-conference\">conference by Wall Street investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald<\/a>. Cantor manages Tether&#8217;s over $100 billion U.S. Treasury holdings, while former CEO Howard Lutnick now serves as Secretary of Commerce in the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>Competition is also increasing in the stablecoin market as U.S. federal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/policy\/2025\/05\/01\/us-senate-moves-toward-action-on-stablecoin-bill\">legislative<\/a> efforts to regulate stablecoins advance. It&#8217;s a big opportunity: Citi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2025\/04\/25\/stablecoins-could-bring-chatgpt-moment-for-blockchain-adoption-hit-usd3-7t-by-2030-citi\">projected<\/a> that the sector could grow to a multi-trillion dollar by the end of the decade.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/policy\/2025\/05\/01\/us-senate-moves-toward-action-on-stablecoin-bill\">U.S. Senate Moves Toward Action on Stablecoin Bill<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rival firm Circle, issuer of the $62 billion USDC token, last month announced plans of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2025\/04\/21\/stablecoin-giant-circle-is-launching-a-new-payments-and-remittance-network\">creating a cross-border payments and remittances network<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tether, the company behind the $148 billion stablecoin USDT, plans to launch its U.S.-focused stablecoin later this year or early 2026 depending on the nation&#8217;s stablecoin legislation, CEO Paolo Ardoino told CNBC in an interview. &#8220;Realistically, it depends on the timeline of the final legislation on stablecoins, but we are looking at [launching the product] [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-24895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}