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Written by Nancy, PANews At Bitcoin Conference 2025, Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino stood in front of an image of Goku and said, "Bitcoin is my Goku and our friend." This seemingly emotional expression is actually the epitome of the core of Tether's strategy. As the issuer of USDT, the world's largest stablecoin, Tether is embedding itself into multiple levels of the Bitcoin ecosystem as a builder, from reserve asset allocation to mining business, from ecological investment to infrastructure construction, Tether is penetrating into the nerve center of the new global financial order. Due to Tether's deep penetration in the Bitcoin system, its actions have also triggered more and more conspiracy theories and heated discussions overseas, questioning that it artificially pushes up the price of Bitcoin by continuously issuing USDT, building a "closed-loop bubble" that is backed by Bitcoin reserves, supported by gold, and USDT issuance. Establishing a Bitcoin Reserve Strategy and being the only big buyer As of May 2023, Tether announced that it will regularly distribute up to 15% of its realized net operating profit for the purchase of Bitcoin. Tether does not anticipate that current and future Bitcoin holdings in its reserves will not exceed the shareholder capital buffer and will further strengthen and diversify its reserves. As of the first quarter of 2025, Tether holds Bitcoin worth about $7.66 billion, a significant increase from the previous quarter. The "Gold + Bitcoin" two-round reserve mechanism is a hedging combination of Tether's against sovereign fiat currency risks, and has brought substantial financial returns. Ardoino recently revealed that Tether currently holds more than 100,000 bitcoins and more than 50 tons of gold. In 2024 alone, Tether will have a net profit of $13.7 billion, of which investments in gold and bitcoin contribute about $5 billion in profits. Ardoino has said that they are not holding gold to challenge Bitcoin, but to challenge the centralized fiat currency system. However, WhaleWire founder Jacob King pointed out that "relying on constant money printing and takeovers, Tether is the only big buyer in the entire Bitcoin market. It proves its legitimacy by printing USDT and driving up the price of Bitcoin before selling the excess, and buying USD and gold as reserves." He calls this model the "ultimate house of cards," where the system could become unbalanced if stablecoins face regulation or demand for Bitcoin dries up. Tether's ambitions for Bitcoin go far beyond hoarding coins. In April this year, Tether, together with SoftBank and Cantor, jointly launched Twenty One Capital, a crypto investment joint venture, with the goal of building a global platform for the acquisition and management of bitcoin assets, with a total scale of $3 billion. This platform is seen in the industry as Tether's structural layout against MicroStrategy. In this joint venture transaction, Tether has a 42.8% stake and 51.7% of the voting rights in the joint venture, effectively owning the ownership. Cantor, on the other hand, owns a 5% stake in Tether, and its CEO, Brandon Lutnick, is the son of U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick. "Jack Mallers (CEO of Twenty One Capital) has a close relationship with Tether, Bitfinex, and his other company, Strike, has long had a close relationship with Tether. They claim to have a lot of market demand, but the majority of their reserves of bitcoin come directly from Tether. It's an 'empty shell operation' in a larger-scale liquidity trick." Jacob King bluntly said on social media that if stablecoins are regulated by the United States in the future, it will be difficult for Tether to continue to inject water, and in recent months, Bitcoin spot ETFs have continued to see huge net outflows, indicating that institutions are rapidly retreating. On-chain data shows that Twenty One Capital's Bitcoin reserves come from Tether, which recently injected more than 37,000 BTC worth nearly $4 billion through five transfers. And Rumble, a video platform that Tether has invested more than $770 million, has also built its own bitcoin vault, saying that bitcoin has the potential to be used as an inflation hedge. Self-built mines and strategic investments are carried out simultaneously, and it is planned to become one of the largest miners in the world Tether's ambitions go far beyond asset reserves. Back in 2023, Tether launched a renewable energy-powered Bitcoin mining project in Uruguay, leveraging the region's abundant clean energy resources, such as hydropower and wind power, to create an efficient and sustainable mining base. Immediately afterward, it participated in El Salvador's Volcano Energy Program, becoming a capital force driving one of the world's largest geothermal bitcoin mining farms. Since then, Tether has continued to expand its energy map in Latin America, investing a total of $500 million in Uruguay, Paraguay, and El Salvador to build vertically integrated mining bases. "El Salvador's so-called Bitcoin investment is actually an elaborate illusion. The bitcoins in its treasury are transferred directly from Bitfinex and Tether. Tether even personally drafted all of El Salvador's Bitcoin bills. But what many people don't notice is that El Salvador has quietly abandoned the implementation of Bitcoin fiat currency. Tether and its internal network can't support all of this, because there's no real market demand at all." Some of Jacob King's claims are not yet clearly substantiated, but in February of this year, El Salvador did officially remove Bitcoin's status as legal tender through the Bitcoin Act, and merchants and institutions are no longer forced to accept Bitcoin and cannot be used to pay taxes. Opinion polls show that the vast majority of the population has not benefited and that the economic situation has not improved. In addition to building its own mines, Tether is also actively expanding its global mining footprint through investment and mergers and acquisitions. So far, it has invested in Bitdeer, Northern Data Group, Blockstream, Swan Mining and other companies, covering chip procurement, server manufacturing, data center construction and even enterprise-level computing power hosting, becoming an important lever to support Tether's Bitcoin mining layout. And this year, Tether went one step further and announced the deployment of computing power to the OCEAN mining pool to promote the construction of decentralized bitcoin mining infrastructure. At the same time, Tether recently announced plans to open source its bitcoin mining software, a move that will allow new miners to enter the market without relying on expensive third-party vendors. According to Ardoino's disclosure at the Bitcoin 2025 conference, Tether has invested more than $2 billion in energy and infrastructure, and is actually investing more in Bitcoin mining, and is expected to become the world's largest bitcoin miner by the end of this year, a forecast that covers all publicly traded companies. A full-stack layout from Bitcoin on-chain issuance to cultural infiltration Tether is advancing its full-stack strategy and continues to expand the boundaries and influence of the Bitcoin ecosystem. For example, at the technical level, in addition to chains such as Ethereum and TRON, Tether issues USDT to the Bitcoin protocol through Omni, Liquid, Lightning, RGB, etc., as well as the popular Bitcoin sidechain network Plasma, which is expected to natively support USDT. In terms of wallet tools, Tether AI has launched a self-custody wallet WDK, which natively supports Bitcoin and USDT, allowing enterprises, applications, websites, and even AI agents to access, thereby further lowering the threshold for Bitcoin's financial infrastructure. In terms of payment ecosystem, Tether donated the open-source project BTC Pay Server to support the continuous development and optimization of its open-source crypto payment processor. At the cultural and educational level, Tether introduced the brand image of Bitcoin into European stadium culture by co-hosting the Plan B Summit with the city of Lugano, Switzerland, sponsoring local football clubs. At the same time, with the help of the Tether education program, we have established partnerships with many universities around the world to promote the popularization of Bitcoin knowledge and cultivate the next generation of crypto natives. In the future, Twenty One Capital will also focus on popularizing Bitcoin-related knowledge, making educational content and video media, as well as developing a series of Bitcoin-related financial and consulting services. "The most important thing for me is that I can contribute to building a more accessible, resilient, and useful Bitcoin ecosystem. If I can make a difference in infrastructure, technology, education, that's enough. The story of Bitcoin has never been about a single person, but about the global community's obsession with an idea of building the future even at a low point, even if it is not understood. If I can play a role in helping more people join the ecosystem and give them sovereignty and security tools, that will be a mission worth remembering." Ardoino said this in an interview with Bitcoin News not long ago.

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