Tether's latest move tells us something about crypto

By LeftFooted | bitcoinea | 12 Jul 2025


Tether, the company that issues USDT, is about to discontinue USDT on five blockchains.


This is move was justified by Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino as a way to "focus on platforms that offer greater scalability, developer activity and community engangement."


USDT has a market cap of $134.9 billion, and these five blockchains provide a relatively low impact and contribution on that front.


The five networks in question are Omni Layer, Bitcoin Cash SLP, Kusama, EOS (which rebranded to Vaulta) and Algorand.


Omni Layer holds a net circulation of $82.9 million USDT, EOS has $4.2 million, Bitcoin Cash SLP has $986,500, Algorand follows with $240,000 and then Kusama with $240,000.


What do these five networks have in common? They're all being quickly forgotten.


That tells us something.

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