{"id":11974,"date":"2021-09-10T19:54:05","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T19:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/tethers-1500-market-cap-increase-in-500-days-usdt-stablecoin-market-nears-70-billion\/"},"modified":"2021-09-10T19:54:05","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T19:54:05","slug":"tethers-1500-market-cap-increase-in-500-days-usdt-stablecoin-market-nears-70-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/tethers-1500-market-cap-increase-in-500-days-usdt-stablecoin-market-nears-70-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Tether\u2019s 1,500% Market Cap Increase in 500 Days \u2014 USDT Stablecoin Market Nears $70 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The stablecoin giant tether is by far the largest dollar-pegged crypto asset in the crypto economy and today, the number of tethers in circulation is nearing $70 billion. 90 days ago on June 12, 2021, the number of tethers in circulation was around 63 billion tokens and the supply has swelled by 9.99% since then.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Circulating Tether Economy Nears $70 Billion, 1 Billion Tethers Minted on Solana<\/h2>\n<p>The largest stablecoin today, in terms of market valuation is tether (<a class=\"lar-automated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/markets.bitcoin.com\/crypto\/USDT\">USDT<\/a>) and on Friday, September 10, <a class=\"lar-automated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/markets.bitcoin.com\/crypto\/USDT\">USDT<\/a>\u2019s market capitalization is $69.3 billion, according to the company\u2019s transparency <a href=\"https:\/\/wallet.tether.to\/transparency?__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=pmd_Hr4GBzSNFzA876Jp.BOetHg.sBRRjMNuUqJknlDyjuw-1631288689-0-gqNtZGzNAeWjcnBszQl9\">balance web page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The number is similar to most crypto market aggregation web portals tallying up the value of each coin market. Below <a class=\"lar-automated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/markets.bitcoin.com\/crypto\/USDT\">USDT<\/a>\u2019s market valuation is usd coin (USDC) with $29 billion and the Binance dollar-pegged token BUSD with $12.4 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The top four stablecoins by market valuation on September 10, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a class=\"lar-automated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/markets.bitcoin.com\/crypto\/USDT\">USDT<\/a> transparency page, the token is issued on several blockchains and in recent times the coin has been <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Coin98Analytics\/status\/1435954369816522755?s=20\">issued on Solana<\/a>. The transparency page notes that tethers exist on Ethereum, <a class=\"lar-automated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/markets.bitcoin.com\/crypto\/EOS\">EOS<\/a>, Algorand, Liquid, Tron, Omni Layer, Bitcoin Cash, and Solana. Tether will <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/tether-to-launch-usdt-natively-on-avalanche\/\">reportedly<\/a> reside on the Avalanche (AVAX) network as well.<\/p>\n<p>$33.8 billion is authorized on Ethereum while Solana has $1.1 billion authorized to date. 90 days ago the <a class=\"lar-automated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/markets.bitcoin.com\/crypto\/USDT\">USDT<\/a> in circulation was around 63 billion and today there\u2019s over 69.3 million tethers circulating throughout the crypto economy.<\/p>\n<p><!-- growjs zone placement 31 -->    <!-- end of growjs zone placement --> <\/p>\n<h2>50% of Today\u2019s Crypto Trades Are Swapped With Tether<\/h2>\n<p>Data from Coingecko\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/stablecoins\">stablecoin by market cap stats<\/a> indicate that tether (<a class=\"lar-automated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/markets.bitcoin.com\/crypto\/USDT\">USDT<\/a>) exists on 392 exchanges worldwide. Cryptocompare.com metrics show that when paired against bitcoin (<a class=\"lar-automated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/markets.bitcoin.com\/crypto\/BTC\">BTC<\/a>), tether (<a class=\"lar-automated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/markets.bitcoin.com\/crypto\/USDT\">USDT<\/a>) represents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cryptocompare.com\/coins\/btc\/analysis\/USD\">58.29%<\/a> of all trades on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Tether\u2019s market cap from 2015 to the present day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cryptocompare.com\/coins\/eth\/analysis\/BTC\">48.50%<\/a> of ethereum (<a class=\"lar-automated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/markets.bitcoin.com\/crypto\/ETH\">ETH<\/a>) trades are swapped with tether and the stablecoin captures <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cryptocompare.com\/coins\/ada\/analysis\/USDT\">62.03%<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/countdown-to-cardanos-hard-fork-goguen-phase-smart-contracts-represent-a-big-step-forward\/\">cardano\u2019s (ADA)<\/a> trading share. Aggregation websites show that out of the $160 billion in global crypto trades on Friday, tether commands \u200b\u200b$80.5 billion of that volume.<\/p>\n<p>Other stablecoins that have seen notable issuance increases include terrausd (UST), trueusd (TUSD), neutrino usd (USDN), and frax (FRAX). Nothing has increased in circulation as much as tether has as <a class=\"lar-automated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/markets.bitcoin.com\/crypto\/USDT\">USDT<\/a>\u2019s market cap on Friday, March 27, 2020 was just over $4.2 billion in value and 532 days in increased by 1,549.9%.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>What do you think about tether\u2019s market cap growth nearing $70 billion today? Let us know what you think about this subject in the comments section below. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin News<br \/>\nBlockchain, $69.3 Billion, $70 billion, 1549% increase, Algorand, bitcoin cash, Coinbase Pro, Dollar-Pegged, EOS, Ethereum, Liquid, Market Cap, Market Valuation, Omni Layer, Solana, Stablecoin, Stablecoin markets, Stablecoin Token, Stablecoins, Tether, Tether (USDT), Tether stablecoin, tron, USDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stablecoin giant tether is by far the largest dollar-pegged crypto asset in the crypto economy and today, the number of tethers in circulation is nearing $70 billion. 90 days ago on June 12, 2021, the number of tethers in circulation was around 63 billion tokens and the supply has swelled by 9.99% since then.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blockchain-news","category-coin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11974"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}