Tether posts $1.5B Q2 profit as reserves halve to $4.1B
Tether keeps printing record operating profits while the equity cushion that backstops USDT shrinks, leaving $4.1B against $183.6B of liabilities and a treasury now heavy in gold and BTC.
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Tether keeps printing record operating profits while the equity cushion that backstops USDT shrinks, leaving $4.1B against $183.6B of liabilities and a treasury now heavy in gold and BTC.
The reserve drawdown and the profit cooldown are linked: Tether's BTC and gold positions have cooled as the same assets that fueled last year's record earnings drag on this year's mark-to-market.
Perps dominate with $200B+ daily volume and brutal margin efficiency, but funding-rate exposure and exchange insurance-fund blowups remain the hidden costs traders say most users underprice.
TD Cowen and Benchmark keep buy ratings on MSTR after Q2, but split on price as the $8.2B loss and a five-week BTC buying pause push STRC preferred back to par as the main goal.
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Strategy's BTC Yield slides, Metaplanet trades below its coin stash, and a clutch of European treasury newcomers are asking public markets to fund them on terms nobody has priced yet.
The Treasury Secretary publicly leans on Bitcoin's founder to break a year-long stall on the market-structure bill already passed by the House.
The treasury-trade playbook that lifted Strategy's stock for two years is cracking: dilution is no longer rewarded, and a biotech is the latest to test how far shareholders will stretch.
The profit print alone would be a beat, but the gold buildout is the structural signal: Tether is now one of the largest private holders of physical bullion on the planet.
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Senators Tillis and Gallego shipped the latest ethics proposal to the White House this morning, and Senator Lummis took to the Senate floor to lobby colleagues as a Senate vote moves into view.
Sygnum's Thomas Brunner says the validator entry queue reflects Ethereum protocol mechanics as much as institutional appetite, and almost no one is un-staking.
The claim targets the equity round Binance and its CEO funded at the top of the prior cycle, not trading activity, and lands as the estate hunts every major 2021 counterparty for clawback.
The new S&P Pantera Digital Asset Index screens 18 tokens by protocol revenue and a $500M market-cap floor, and the omission of BTC and XRP signals Wall Street is finally judging altcoins the way it…
The NYDFS authorization lets Circle wrap fiduciary and custody around USDC at the same time it holds an OCC national trust bank approval, a dual US regulatory footprint few stablecoin issuers can…
An $8.2B Q2 loss, 40% Bitcoin drawdown, and forced STRC margin sales exposed how the perpetual preferred has become both the growth engine and the cheapest way to break the balance sheet.