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Dissecting the Tether Imbalance on Curve and Uniswap

Kaiko says Curve’s 3pool and Uniswap V3’s main USDT-USDC pool both became imbalanced late last week, as USDT selling escalated. However, the research firm points out the trend actually started in mid-July, well before the Curve exploit. CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie presents "The Chart of the Day."

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Markets

Huobi Receives $200M USDT, $9M Ether From Whale

Transfers occur as outflows from the exchange continues.

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Markets

Traders Ditch USDT on Curve, Uniswap, Pushing Key Exchange Pools Into Imbalance

Similar imbalances happened when Terra imploded in May 2022 and after the Silicon Valley Bank crisis hit USDC issuer Circle in March.

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Finance

Tether Reports $3.3B in Excess Reserves in Q2, Up $850M for the Quarter

The issuer of stablecoin USDT said its operational profits exceeded $1 billion in Q2 this year.

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Videos

Paolo Ardoino: Tether's Stress Test

The role of the stablecoin is to always ensure customers get a one-to-one redemption to the dollar, says Paolo Ardoino, chief technology officer of Tether, the firm stablecoin USDT, and its affiliate cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex. Scrutiny on the world’s largest stablecoin has been increasing in the past month due to the latest USDT depegging scare. In a Word on the Block interview with Forkast Editor-in-Chief Angie Lau, Ardoino breaks down the USDT reserves, how the firm’s investment in U.S. treasuries is generating profits and discusses why secondary market traders can trigger USDT depegging concerns.

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Markets

Crypto Markets ‘Highly Dependent’ on Stablecoins Lacking Transparency, TUSD Poses Risk: Kaiko

The rapidly growing TUSD, favored by crypto exchange Binance, poses risk to the market, according to the crypto research firm.

Ratings company S&P Global has started ranking stablecoins' ability to hold their pegs. (eswaran arulkumar/Unsplash)

Markets

TrueUSD Depegs on Binance.US, Drops to 80 Cents Against Tether

TUSD trades at a discount versus Tether as former FTX auditor Armanino's rebranded outlet The Network Firm's association with TrueUSD raises alarm bells on Crypto Twitter.

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Policy

Reviewing the Tether Documents

CoinDesk filed a public records request for documents detailing Tether’s reserves. Here’s what we got.

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Finance

Tether Issues USDT on Kava Blockchain; KAVA Token Climbs 5%

Tether is looking to improve the stablecoin's liquidity across multiple blockchains.

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Tether’s Banking Relationships, Commercial Paper Exposure Detailed in Newly Released Legal Documents

Stablecoin issuer Tether kept its funds in four banks, two investment management firms, two gold depositories, and a gold broker and on its own sister company Bitfinex in March 2021, according to documents obtained by CoinDesk. It also had funds in commercial paper issued by various entities. CoinDesk obtained the documents after a nearly two-year legal battle after Tether filed to block the NYAG from releasing them. In a statement, Tether said it “found it suspicious” that USDT depegged after millions of dollars’ worth were sold on decentralized finance pools “on the same day” that the New York government shared the documents with CoinDesk. "The Hash" panel weighs in on the documents.

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