Tether transferred $20 million to Mercado Bitcoin in Brazil, and this is not just an ordinary investment. The platform serves 4.5 million users and holds encrypted assets exceeding BRL 2 billion, making it a fertile environment for Tether to expand its influence in Latin America’s emerging markets.

Tether just dropped 20M into Latin America's biggest crypto platform🌎🔥 Payments, tokenized investments, lending, on-chain capital markets — all expanding now with Tether's backing! Mercado Bitcoin — 4.5 million users, 2B in tokenized assets, 10+ licenses across Brazil and Europe🇪🇺 Can LATAM become the next global crypto powerhouse? 👇💬

How much has Tether made in the past month...? According to DefiLlama's protocol fee dashboard, @Tether has generated an eye-watering $484.4M over the past 30-days, stemming from yield earned from the assets backing the $USDT stablecoin. This means it is currently producing revenue at more than double the rate of its stablecoin competitor @Circle $USDC, which has generated only $194M in the period.

JUST IN: 🇧🇷 Tether invests $20 million in Brazil's largest crypto exchange, Mercado Bitcoin.

Tether Backs Mercado Bitcoin as Latin America Blockchain Finance Grows Tether has taken a $20 million stake in Brazil’s Mercado Bitcoin as it pushes further into tokenized financial products and stablecoin-powered payments across Latin America. The investment is intended to ...

tether burned 2.5b USDT on ethereum july 7th. same week RGB v0.11.1 infrastructure targets mainnet for native USDT on bitcoin by end of month. MiCA already forced USDT delisting across EU exchanges july 1st, circle is eating that market unopposed. tether's move is to route $184b in stablecoin supply through bitcoin + lightning instead of competing on ethereum's regulatory turf. the leading indicator to watch is lightning network channel capacity. sitting at ~5,000 BTC right now. if that spikes 2-3x before any official launch announcement, node operators are already preparing for RGB asset routing. large ethereum burns followed by bitcoin-side issuance is the supply migration pattern

Tether froze 131 TRON addresses linked to ISIS-K sanctions. Over $1.4M flowed through these TRON addresses since 2023. OFAC added 134 addresses total to its list. #Crypto #Sanctions 🏛️

while everyone is obsessing over minor price fluctuations between $63k and $64k, the real plumbing of the ecosystem is undergoing a massive, historical shift @tether just announced a massive commercial rollout to issue USDT natively on the Bitcoin network using the RGB protocol for years, people claimed Bitcoin was just a stagnant digital gold asset while all the utility and smart contract execution belonged to alternative layer1 chains, but this move changes the entire chess board we are talking about the world's dominant stablecoin leveraging the ultimate security and decentralized infrastructure of Bitcoin to settle transactional volume directly this is exactly what it looks like when a narrative catches up to reality, infrastructure is quietly evolving to create a hyper scalable ecosystem on the most secure network alive, and the market hasn't even begun to price in what native stablecoin liquidity on Bitcoin actually unlocks stop trading the five minute emotional noise and start tracking where the absolute titans are laying down the concrete rails