{"id":12166,"date":"2025-09-30T16:59:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T16:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/tether-grows-bitcoin-reserves-to-9-7b-after-1b-q3-buy\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T16:59:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T16:59:17","slug":"tether-grows-bitcoin-reserves-to-9-7b-after-1b-q3-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/tether-grows-bitcoin-reserves-to-9-7b-after-1b-q3-buy\/","title":{"rendered":"Tether grows Bitcoin reserves to $9.7b after $1b Q3 buy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-detail__content blocks\">\n<p class=\"is-style-lead\">Tether reinforced its belief in Bitcoin as a primary reserve asset with its latest acquisition\u2014a $1 billion purchase that brings its total stake to $9.7 billion amid a soaring USDT supply.<\/p>\n<div id=\"cn-block-summary-block_0fecd6bd2dcf6e81c153363ceaa1751f\" class=\"cn-block-summary\">\n<div class=\"cn-block-summary__nav tabs\">\n        <span class=\"tabs__item is-selected\">Summary<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"cn-block-summary__content\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Tether bought 8,889 BTC worth $1 billion in Q3, raising reserves to $9.7 billion.<\/li>\n<li>The move follows a pattern of end-quarter Bitcoin acquisitions.<\/li>\n<li>USDT supply nears $175 billion, reinforcing Tether\u2019s dominance in stablecoins.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .cn-block-summary --><\/p>\n<p>According to onchain data flagged by Nansen on Sept. 30, a wallet tagged to Tether received 8,889 Bitcoin (BTC), valued at approximately $1 billion, in a transaction executed as the third quarter closed.<\/p>\n<p>The acquisition, sourced from a Bitfinex-linked wallet, follows a pattern of end-of-quarter reserve bolstering that the firm has established over the past year, bringing its total disclosed Bitcoin holdings to about $9.7 billion.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Just In: Tether (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tether_to?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">@Tether_to<\/a>) has bought 8,888.889 <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24BTC&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">$BTC<\/a> worth $1B, on the last day of Q3 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Address: bc1qjasf9z3h7w3jspkhtgatgpyvvzgpa2wwd2lr0eh5tx44reyn2k7sfc27a4<\/p>\n<p>Data <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nansen_ai?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">@nansen_ai<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5GwX50ZXou\">pic.twitter.com\/5GwX50ZXou<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Onchain Lens (@OnchainLens) <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OnchainLens\/status\/1972984223889060230?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 30, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Bitcoin at the core of Tether\u2019s reserve strategy<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>This latest acquisition is a direct execution of a policy Tether formally announced in 2023, committing to allocate up to 15% of its net realized operating profits toward purchasing Bitcoin. The stablecoin giant described the move as a way to diversify the reserves that support USDT\u2019s peg to the U.S. dollar.<\/p>\n<p>While Bitcoin is not the sole backing for USDT, its growing weight on Tether\u2019s balance sheet illustrates the company\u2019s view of the asset as a hedge against traditional market risks. By holding non-sovereign, hard assets alongside cash and cash equivalents, Tether is betting that Bitcoin can function as a long-term counterweight to inflation and sovereign-debt instability.<\/p>\n<p>This distinction matters given that USDT, with nearly $175 billion in circulation, now serves as the largest pool of dollar liquidity in the crypto economy. For context, USDT\u2019s closest competitor, Circle\u2019s USDC, had a market cap of $73 billion at last check, according to crypto.news data.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond direct treasury purchases, Tether is deepening its involvement in the broader Bitcoin ecosystem through strategic capital allocations. Earlier this year, the firm reportedly seeded more than $1.4 billion in Bitcoin to Twenty One Capital, a treasury-management firm led by Strike CEO Jack Mallers, where Tether is a lead investor.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tether reinforced its belief in Bitcoin as a primary reserve asset with its latest acquisition\u2014a $1 billion purchase that brings its total stake to $9.7 billion amid a soaring USDT&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12167,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12166\/revisions\/12167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}