Tether CTO Highlights a Coordinated Attack by Hedge Funds to Short USDT, Reiterates the Stablecoin is 100% Backed

Abstract:

• Tether’s CTO, Paolo Ardoino, has recognized a coordinated assault on USDT by conventional hedge funds shorting the stablecoin.
• In accordance 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 business 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 a twelve-part Twitter thread that may be discovered beneath, that the assaults contain a brand new wave of FUD, troll armies, clowns, and extra.

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I’ve been open concerning 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 so on. https://t.co/hhcsgHV1Ow

— Paolo Ardoino (@paoloardoino) June 27, 2022

Conventional Hedge Funds are Betting In opposition to Tether – Wall Road Journal.

Mr. Ardoino was responding to a Wall Road Journal report mentioning that the aforementioned hedge funds ‘have been ramping up their bets in opposition to Tether’ by Genesis World Buying and selling Inc., one of many largest crypto brokerages for skilled traders.

The Wall Road Journal Report explains that the brief sellers have been betting in opposition to 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 will not be 100% backed, that its had publicity to Evergrande and that it has 85% publicity to Chinese language business 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 business paper and exchange them totally with US Treasuries. He mentioned:

Regardless of all the general public third occasion 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 considering and suggesting that we, Tether, are the dangerous guys.

However as we at all times mentioned, Tether had/has in truth >= 100% of the backing, by no means failed a redemption and all USDt are redeemed at 1$.

Tether Has Regularly Honored Redemptions of USDT to USD

Tether’s CTO additionally highlighted that the corporate continues to honor redemptions of USDT into USD even in the course of the hardest of instances within the crypto markets. He mentioned:

In 48 hours Tether processed 7B in redemptions, averaging 10% of our complete belongings, one thing virtually unattainable even for banking establishments.

In a couple of month Tether processed 16B in redemptions (~19% of our complete reserves), once more proving that our operations, portfolio, banking infrastructure and staff are stable and battle examined.