A Strategic Retreat Disguised as Flexibility
Key Highlights
• Tether scraps planned freezes but ends minting and redemptions on Omni, EOS, and three other chains.
• The issuer doubles down on Ethereum and Tron, where nearly all USDT action now lives.
Paradisers! Is it a lifeline or a slow goodbye? Tether has decided not to freeze USDT contracts on five blockchains, Omni Layer, Bitcoin Cash SLP, Kusama, EOS, and Algorand but the catch is this: you can still move your coins, you just can’t get new ones or redeem old ones. Think of it as being allowed to dance on a sinking ship, as long as you don’t ask for another lifeboat.
The move trims off what are, frankly, relics of crypto’s infrastructure past. Omni once carried Tether’s crown but now holds just $82.9 million in circulation, pocket change compared to the $80.9 billion sitting on Tron. EOS, for all its promises of scalability, is down to $4.2 million, the equivalent of finding loose change in the couch cushions of a billion-dollar market.
Ethereum and Tron Take the Throne
The strategy is clear: Tether is pruning the weak branches and watering only the trees that bear fruit. Ethereum and Tron dominate with $72.4 billion and $80.9 billion of USDT issued, dwarfing BNB Chain’s $6.78 billion. Newer contenders like Arbitrum and Base are growing, but most of their flows lean toward USDC.
Stablecoins overall now weigh in at a hefty $285.9 billion market cap, with Tether holding $167.4 billion of it, more than enough to keep its critics and regulators awake at night.
Washington’s Dollar Defense Squad
Overlaying this corporate pivot is political momentum. Trump’s newly signed GENIUS Act effectively turns stablecoins into a state-endorsed weapon in the dollar’s global dominance battle. The Treasury expects the sector to smash $2 trillion by 2028. Ripple’s Brad Garlinghouse is even more bullish, suggesting the leap could happen in just a few years.
Even Western Union, once the dusty wire-transfer king, now dreams of stablecoins making its remittance rails faster and cheaper. Tether’s quiet exit from the weaker blockchains isn’t just efficiency, it’s survival positioning for the next trillion-dollar chapter.
The Bottom Line
This isn’t Tether shrinking; it’s Tether concentrating firepower. By cutting off the underused networks, the company is betting the future lies in scale, liquidity, and regulation-friendly ecosystems. The message to traders? If you’re holding USDT on the forgotten chains, the clock is ticking.
Why You Need to Stay Ahead
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