Whale Alert Spots Significant Transactions Involving Tether Treasury

Whale Alert, the popular wallet tracker, has spotted significant transactions on Tether Treasury. In two recent posts, Whale Alert shared that 100 million USDT had been transferred from Bitfinex to Tether Treasury earlier today.

In a separate post, Whale Alert noted that the Tether Treasury also minted 1 billion USDT today. Responding to the latter, Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino noted that the recently minted assets represent an inventory replenishment on the Ethereum Network.

According to Ardoino, the replenishment is an authorized but not issued transaction. He further explained that the minted amount would be used as inventory for the next period of issuance requests and chain swaps.

Tether’s market cap increased by 0.46% in the last 24 hours, reaching $106.62 billion, according to CoinmarketCap. Tether’s circulating supply was 106.6 billion USDT, with a total supply rising to 109.94 billion USDT at the time of writing.

A user responding to Whale Alert’s post on the transfer from Bitfinex to Tether Treasury showed optimism about the transaction. According to him, balance in large transactions highlights the importance of mindful resource management. He believes such actions are fundamental in shaping the shared Tether ecosystem.

A crypto trader responding to the same post clarified that the alert does not imply Tether is “mindlessly printing” digital tokens. According to him, the action is about people depositing enough crypto so that their balance sheet allows a print.

Tether is the most used stablecoin, with a market capitalization that ranks 3rd among all the cryptocurrencies.