Tether reveals more than 100,000 bitcoins and 50 tonnes of gold in reserve

In an ecosystem where each decision of Crypto leaders redraw the market balance, Tether displays his ambitions. From the Bitcoin 2025 scene in Las Vegas, Paolo Ardoino has revealed that the USDT transmitter has more than 100,000 bitcoins and 50 tonnes of gold. It is no longer a simple Stablecoins company: it is a strategic heritage player. By revealing these reservations, Tether is not content to reassure, but he affirms his role in the new global financial architecture.

Tether exhibits his chests: an unprecedented treasure

While Tether voluntarily maintains his position outside the European market, refusing to comply with the Mica regulation as explained Paolo Ardoino, the company continues to display remarkable financial results.

During his intervention at the Bitcoin 2025 conference in Las Vegas on May 29, 2025, his CEO projected a Slide which immediately caught the attention of the audience. We discovered the latest updated data on the assets held by the company.

To everyone's surprise, Ardoino has revealed that Tether now has more than 100,000 bitcoins, which represents a value greater than 10 billion dollars, as well as more than 50 tonnes of physical gold. “”Tether is probably the most profitable company in the Crypto industry“, He declared Faced with the public.

This statement is supported by the impressive figure of $ 13 billion in net profits made in 2024.

These data complement and update the figures already published in Tether's official report at the end of the first fiscal quarter 2025. This document specified that:

• Bitcoin reserves were valued at more than $ 7 billion, based on an average course of $ 83,000/BTC;
• The gold reserves took the form of standardized physical bars, for a value greater than $ 6 billion;
• These assets are intended to support the circulation of stablecoin USDT, the most used in the world.

By displaying such transparency on his assets, Tether sends a strong signal to the markets. The company seeks to consolidate its credibility and respond to persistent criticisms on the composition and solidity of its reserves.

A symbolic and strategic choice: Tether redefines his role in the ecosystem

By integrating gold into its reserves, Tether is not content to diversify his assets. It sends a message to the two ends of the financial spectrum. Aware that this decision could question an audience mainly made up of Bitcoin maximalists, Paolo Ardoino wanted to defuse any ideological ambiguity.

He said:

Many bitcoiners do not like to talk about gold, as if it could remove something from Bitcoin. This is not the case. Bitcoin is perfect. Gold is imperfect. However, gold does not compete with Bitcoin, it competes with the Fiat. And that's why we like to have a little gold.

This position sheds light on a pragmatic approach: gold is not there to compete with the BTC, but to better counter fiduciary currencies.

This positioning is part of a global movement to reconfigure the role of Crypto cash, where some actors, such as Twenty One Capital which recently acquired $ 458 million in Bitcoin, or Cantor Fitzgerald, which launches a fund exposed to the BTC with gold coverage, adopt similar strategies.

Far from being anecdotal, the choice of Tether translates a desire to anchor in an almost-systemic logic, close to that of a private Central Central Bank, capable of making sheltered from the only fluctuations of the dollar.

In the future, this double reserve, Bitcoin et Or, could strengthen the resilience of the Tether model, while offering the USDT a reinforced status of crypto backed by hard active ingredients. If this strategy inspires confidence, it challenges: should we see the beginnings of a new era for stablecoins, whose demand explodes, or the start of a switch to an even more concentrated market power in the hands of a few private giants? The industry will have to closely follow the evolution of this strategy in a context of increasing regulation and macroeconomic instability.