Abstract:
- Tether’s CTO, Paolo Ardoino, has recognized a coordinated assault on USDT by conventional hedge funds shorting the stablecoin.
- In line with Mr. Ardoino, the assault entails a brand new wave of FUD, trolling, clowns, and extra.
- Mr. Ardoino has reiterated that Tether is 100% backed by reserves.
- He additionally added that Tether is phasing out its reserve publicity of economic paper as opposed to US treasuries.
Tether’s and Bitfinex’s CTO, Paolo Ardoino, has recognized a coordinated assault on USDT by conventional hedge funds shorting the stablecoin. The Tether CTO factors out, by way of a twelve-part Twitter thread that may be discovered under, that the assaults contain a brand new wave of FUD, troll armies, clowns, and extra.
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I’ve been open in regards to the makes an attempt from some hedge funds that had been attempting to trigger additional panic in the marketplace after TERRA/LUNA collapse.
It actually appeared from the start a coordinated assault, with a brand new wave of FUD, troll armies, clowns and many others. https://t.co/hhcsgHV1Ow— Paolo Ardoino (@paoloardoino) June 27, 2022
Conventional Hedge Funds are Betting Towards Tether – Wall Avenue Journal.
Mr. Ardoino was responding to a Wall Avenue Journal report stating that the aforementioned hedge funds ‘have been ramping up their bets towards Tether’ by way of Genesis International Buying and selling Inc., one of many largest crypto brokerages for skilled traders.
The Wall Avenue Journal Report explains that the brief sellers have been betting towards Tether for the final 12 months, with their curiosity rising after TeraUSD’s (UST) collapse. The identical brief sellers imagine that ‘tether’s commercial-paper holdings are backed by debt-ridden Chinese language property builders.’
USDT is 100% Backed – Tether CTO.
It’s with this background that Tether’s CTO has identified within the Twitter thread that the identical hedge funds imagine Tether isn’t 100% backed, that its had publicity to Evergrande and that it has 85% publicity to Chinese language industrial paper.
Moreover, Mr. Ardoino said that the hedge funds additionally imagine Tether is ‘issued from skinny air’ and that ‘lenders had been borrowing from Tether with out over-collateralization.’
Mr. Ardoino reiterates that the USDT was 100% backed and Tether has remained clear over time. The corporate plans to section out its reserves within the type of industrial paper and change them solely with US Treasuries. He mentioned:
Regardless of all the general public third celebration attestations, our collaboration with regulators, our elevated transparency efforts, our dedication to section out CP publicity and transfer into US Treasuries, our settlements, … they saved pondering and suggesting that we, Tether, are the dangerous guys.
However as we all the time mentioned, Tether had/has the truth is >= 100% of the backing, by no means failed a redemption and all USDt are redeemed at 1$.
Tether Has Frequently Honored Redemptions of USDT to USD
Tether’s CTO additionally highlighted that the corporate continues to honor redemptions of USDT into USD even through the hardest of instances within the crypto markets. He mentioned:
In 48 hours Tether processed 7B in redemptions, averaging 10% of our whole belongings, one thing nearly unimaginable even for banking establishments.
In multiple month Tether processed 16B in redemptions (~19% of our whole reserves), once more proving that our operations, portfolio, banking infrastructure and group are stable and battle examined.
