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Summary

Tether is the issuer of USDT, the world's largest stablecoin by market capitalization. The company has faced ongoing regulatory scrutiny, transparency concerns, and legal challenges regarding its reserves and business practices, though it continues to operate as a major cryptocurrency infrastructure provider.

Connected Entities

6 entities · 60 linked investigations
Organizations
□Tether□Commodity Futures Trading Commission□Bitfinex□New York Attorney General
Protocols
⌂Bitfinex / Tether28
Tokens
♦Bitcoin62
Relationships
  • New York Attorney General→associated with→Tether(80%)
  • Commodity Futures Trading Commission→associated with→Tether(80%)
  • Bitfinex→associated with→Tether(95%)
  • Tether→mentioned with→Bitcoin(60%)
  • Tether→mentioned with→Bitfinex / Tether(80%)
  • Bitfinex / Tether→mentioned with→Tether(70%)
  • Bitfinex / Tether→mentioned with→Bitcoin(60%)
Also appears in
Bitfinex / Tether·28Bitcoin·62Lendf.me·30H-Pay Service PLC (Huione Successor Entity)·2Shibarium·28Ruslan Igorevich Tkachuk·2SafePal·42Bitcoin Xchange (Syria-based, ISIS-Linked)·0Gurhan Kiziloz·0Abdelhakim Boukich·0

Connected Through

3 shared actors · 570 investigations

Distinct actors this investigation shares with others — holders, traders, and named parties. Shared infrastructure (exchanges, pools) is excluded.

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Community submissions

Timeline(7 events)

6 October 2014

Tether (originally RealCoin) launched, claiming 1:1 USD backing

Company announcement

21 November 2017

Tether reports $31 million in USDT tokens stolen from treasury wallet

Tether security announcement

June 2018

Tether updates terms of service, removing claim that tokens are backed by USD in bank account

Terms of service revision

25 April 2019

New York Attorney General files court action alleging $850 million loss cover-up

NYAG court filing

23 February 2021

Tether settles with NYAG for $18.5 million, agrees to transparency measures

NYAG settlement agreement

15 October 2021

CFTC fines Tether $41 million over backing claims

CFTC enforcement action

3 December 2021

Tether begins publishing quarterly attestation reports on reserves

First quarterly attestation report

Provenance & Audit Trail
Anchored on SolanaVerify on-chain

Decision Log

This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain (3 events). 0 of 14 cited source URLs have an Internet Archive snapshot.

full audit log →version history →

model: claude-sonnet-4-20250514

generated: 4/12/2026, 5:45:35 AM

last updated: 6/14/2026, 11:16:24 PM

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