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Tether tokens are the most widely adopted stablecoins, having pioneered the
concept in the digital token space. A disruptor to the conventional financial
system and a trailblazer in the digital use of traditional currencies, Tether
Tokens support and empower growing ventures and innovation throughout the
blockchain space. Tether Tokens exist as a digital token built on multiple
blockchains.

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100% BACKED AND FULLY TRANSPARENT

All Tether tokens (USD₮) are pegged at 1-to-1 with a matching fiat currency and
are backed 100% by Tether’s reserves. We publish a daily record of the current
total assets and reserves.

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WIDESPREAD ADOPTION

From being the first, to the most used, stablecoin, and one of the most traded
tokens by volume, Tether tokens have come a long way. Tether tokens are today
the most widely adopted stablecoins across major exchanges, OTC desks, and
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TETHER FOR MERCHANTS

For merchants, integrating Tether tokens opens up an array of opportunities for
consumers to purchase products and services.
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Tether tokens play a pivotal role in the digital token ecosystem and are the
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WHAT IS TETHER?



Launched in 2014, Tether is a blockchain-enabled platform designed to facilitate
the use of fiat currencies in a digital manner. Tether works to disrupt the
conventional financial system via a more modern approach to money. Tether has
made headway by giving customers the ability to transact with traditional
currencies across the blockchain, without the inherent volatility and complexity
typically associated with a digital currency. As the first blockchain-enabled
platform to facilitate the digital use of traditional currencies (a familiar,
stable accounting unit), Tether has democratised cross-border transactions
across the blockchain.

HOW DO TETHER TOKENS WORK?



Tether tokens exist as digital tokens built on several leading blockchains,
including Algorand, Bitcoin Cash’s Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP), Ethereum, EOS,
Liquid Network, Omni, Tron and Solana. These transport protocols consist of open
source software that interface with blockchains to allow for the issuance and
redemption of Tether tokens.

Every Tether token is 100% backed by our reserves, which includes traditional
currency and cash equivalents, and may include other assets and receivables from
loans made by Tether to third parties.

The Tether platform is fully reserved when the sum of all Tether tokens in
circulation is less than or equal to the value of our reserves. Through our
Transparency page, anyone can view both of these numbers on a daily basis.

Tether was originally created to use the Bitcoin network as its transport
protocol—specifically, the Omni Layer—to allow transactions of tokenised
traditional currency. Since this original version of Tether uses the Bitcoin
blockchain, it inherits the inherent stability and security of the longest
established blockchain network.

Tether on the Ethereum blockchain, as an ERC20 token, is a newer transport
layer, which now makes Tether tokens available in Ethereum smart contracts or
decentralized applications on Ethereum. As a standard ERC20 token it can also be
sent to any Ethereum address.

Since Tether tokens are currently available using different transport protocols,
when users send Tether tokens to other addresses, they need to carefully check
the destination address to confirm they are selecting the correct transport
protocol.

WHAT ARE TETHER TOKENS?



Tether tokens are assets that move across the blockchain just as easily as other
digital currencies but that are pegged to real-world currencies on a 1-to-1
basis.

Tether tokens are referred to as stablecoins because they offer price stability
as they are pegged to a fiat currency. This offers traders, merchants and funds
a low volatility solution when exiting positions in the market.

All Tether tokens are pegged at 1-to-1 with a matching fiat currency (e.g., 1
USD₮ = 1 USD) and are backed 100% by Tether’s reserves.

As a fully transparent company, we publish a daily record of the current total
assets and reserves.

WHAT CURRENCIES AND COMMODITIES DOES TETHER SUPPORT?



Tether supports US dollars (USD), euros, Mexican peso, offshore Chinese yuan,
and Gold, with the following Tether tokens, respectively: USD₮, EUR₮, MXN₮, CNH₮
and XAU₮.

WHO CAN USE TETHER TOKENS?



Tether tokens enable businesses – including exchanges, wallets, payment
processors, financial services and ATMs – to easily use fiat currencies on
blockchains. Some of the largest businesses in the digital currency ecosystem
have integrated Tether tokens.

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Individuals can also use Tether-enabled platforms to transact with Tether
tokens.

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LATEST NEWS

FT FIXATION CONTINUES: SAME REHASHING OF SELECTIVE OLD NEWS ON NEW MEDIUM OF
COMMUNICATION

We are unsure what has led the Financial Times to take up such an agenda with
Tether, or its obscure fascination with our executives. We believe that there
are more important things to report on when it comes to the state of financial
innovation than the personal lives of our company’s executives who are private
citizens and principals at private companies. We also find it odd that a leading
global publication is still fixated on a lawsuit that has been settled and
responded to countless times over the past three years when there is so much
exciting innovation happening every day right before our very eyes. What we do
know is that time and time again, Tether has proven itself to be essential to
the crypto ecosystem. A trailblazer in its category, Tether was the first
stablecoin, has withstood multiple black swan events in crypto, and has never
refused a redemption in its history. Trailblazers are a special breed in
business -- they have very big visions and are laser-focused on removing
challenges that stand in their way. Trailblazers are pioneers, those who take
risks and go on a path that isn't already there, blazing a trail and leaving a
path for others. Standing at the forefront of the biggest leap forward that the
financial industry has ever seen, it's often that Tether is scrutinised more
than others, especially its peers and competitors. However, Tether remains
committed to leading not only in innovative technology but also in transparency
and accountability to its customers, who use stablecoin to make tens of billions
of dollars in trades every day. Tether is the first among its peers to disclose
the composition of its reserves and deliver public attestations without
misleading the public to think they were official audits. Tether’s executive
leadership team understands its responsibility as the market leader and fully
embraces its role in helping educate the world about how stablecoin technology
fits into traditional finance, and how it will reshape payments technologies and
the financial infrastructure of the world in decades to come.
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STRESS TESTS, RESILIENCY AND BANK RUNS

In the 1800s and early 1900s, the United States experienced 5 major bank runs.
These events, which resulted in enormous losses for depositors and weakened
confidence in the banking system became seared into the American psyche.Outside
of bank failures, such as Lehman Brothers during the 2008 financial crisis, the
21st century has seen far fewer bank runs, at least in America. Globally, many
emerging markets still experience bank runs and bank failures.Bank runs are
fundamentally caused by a confidence crisis that pushes depositors to withdraw
all their money, and because the bank uses a fractional reserve system, the bank
cannot fulfil the redemption requests. A fractional reserve system is when a
bank only needs to have a given percentage of total outstanding loans available
in its deposits. For example, a bank could lend out $100 million dollars even if
it only had $20 million dollars in deposits. The amount of deposits that a bank
needs to have on hand against outstanding loans is called the reserve
requirement ratio. This was generally set around 10% but was reduced to 0%
during the COVID crisis.So rather than pushing for more responsible lending
standards and a full reserve or higher reserve requirement, governments instead
decided to back the banking system with their printing presses. The lack of
fully reserved banks is the underlying cause of all bank runs and is why the
world is so vigilant about bank collapses.If banks were fully reserved, they
would not have anything to fear from their customers withdrawing funds from the
bank at a rapid pace. However, due to the fractional reserve standard, requests
from customers to withdraw their funds can trigger bank failures. In order to
assess the resiliency of the banking sector post-2008, banks conduct stress
tests to evaluate their risk of failure. This can happen if customers tried to
withdraw their funds in a short period of time, but typically it would happen
due to an economic crisis or some other event that put bank assets at risk.
Stress tests are an important aspect of understanding how fragile a financial
system is, and they occur every time markets undergo significant volatility.The
collapse of Terra can be understood as the Terra stablecoin system failing to
pass a stress test that the market imposed on it. De-Fi protocols face similar
challenges when market volatility emerges, and not all of them successfully pass
the test.Why is USD₮ More Resilient?USD₮ has been proven time and time again to
be able to withstand market volatility, crashes, and fund redemptions that would
cause many other protocols and especially banks to fail.How is it that USD₮ is
more resilient than all of these other institutions? The answer is simple: USD₮
is fully reserved.All of the challenges that other protocols and banks face are
only problems because the systems are not fully reserved. If any given financial
system doesn’t have enough collateral to back its outstanding liabilities, it
faces the risk of collapse if it is hit with too many withdrawals or the
collapse of the value of its available collateral.But if a system is fully
reserved it has no such risk.As long as there is $1 value of collateral for each
$1 of outstanding liabilities ( in this case USD₮ tokens) the worst scenario
that can occur is the redemption of all liabilities for the underlying
collateral.USD₮ Passed its Stress Test with Flying ColorsTether recently faced
redemption requests for $10 billion dollars of USD₮ redemptions within a single
week and was able to fulfil all requests in full with ease.$10 billion dollars
of redemptions represented over 12% of outstanding USD₮ tokens.No bank in the
world could process the withdrawal of 12% of its outstanding liabilities within
a week.In fact, the size of USD₮ redemptions over the last two weeks rivals the
size of the largest banking withdrawals in history. This unrecord is held by
requests for $16.7 billion in withdrawals over 10 days from Washington Mutual.
This represented redemption requests for 11% of the bank's assets, less than the
amount Tether processed with ease.Unlike Washington Mutual, which was shut down
and seized by regulators, USD₮ has maintained a stable value and highly liquid
markets.Contrary to the fears which are peddled in the market, Tether’s ability
to redeem USD₮ tokens for dollars is among the best in the world.The last two
weeks were an enormous stress test for cryptocurrency markets, and Tether passed
with flying colors.Are USD₮ Redemptions a Problem for Tether?There has been
discussion that if redemptions were to continue, it would cause issues for USD₮.
This is quite simply not the case.The stability of USD₮, and Tether, does not
rely on continuous inflows into USD₮ and is not threatened by outflows. This is
because USD₮ is backed 1 to 1 by collateral and redemptions only mean that
Tether is exchanging that collateral for USD₮ tokens held by users.Additionally,
some critics have stated that the redemptions that Tether experienced were
because users moved 10 billion dollars into competitor stablecoins. This is also
not true.The vast majority of redemptions went into the traditional finance
system, normal banks, and other financial institutions, not into competing
stablecoins. While it is true that some competitors did see inflows, it is
reasonable to assume some of these inflows could have been from funds redeemed
from USD₮, it did not represent a significant majority of redeemed funds.An
Update on USD₮ ReservesIn Tether’s latest assurance opinion, Tether announced
that over 47% of total USD₮ reserves are now US Treasuries and that commercial
paper now makes up less than 25% of USD₮’s backing. Since March 31, 2022 to the
present, commercial paper has been reduced by an additional 20%.Tether is
committed to further reducing commercial paper as part of its reserves and
increasing its holding of US Treasuries. Tether is reducing its commercial paper
holdings as rising interest rates create superior risk reward opportunities with
US Treasuries. While commercial paper is a secure and widely used cash
equivalent, US Treasury bills are more liquid and provide greater flexibility
when there are short term liquidity demands. Coupled with rising yields,
Treasuries are an attractive and secure collateral option for Tether's reserves.
This change in Tether's reserves will be reflected in the next assurance
opinion, published quarterly.These announcements are part of Tether’s ongoing
commitment to transparency and stability. Tether’s reserves are strong,
conservative, and liquid. This is further demonstrated by Tether’s ability to
honor $10 billion in redemption requests within days.
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