{"id":392790,"date":"2026-04-15T04:41:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T04:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/392790\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T04:41:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T04:41:18","slug":"tether-usdt-launches-crypto-wallet-to-bring-stablecoin-bitcoin-btc-payments-directly-to-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/392790\/","title":{"rendered":"Tether (USDT) launches crypto wallet to bring stablecoin, bitcoin (BTC) payments directly to users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tether, issuer of the most popular stablecoin USDT <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/price\/tether\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">USDT$1.0001<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tether.io\/news\/tether-launches-tether-wallet-the-peoples-wallet-extending-its-global-financial-infrastructure-directly-to-billions-of-users-left-behind-by-the-traditional-financial-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">rolled out<\/a> Tuesday a self-custodial crypto wallet aimed at putting its stablecoin network directly in users&#8217; hands, aiming to make crypto payments as easy as sending a message.<\/p>\n<p>The new app, called tether.wallet, allows users to hold and send USDT and USAT (USAT) stablecoins, gold-backed token XAUT (XAUT) and bitcoin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/price\/bitcoin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BTC$74,340.12<\/a> across multiple blockchains. It removes common friction points by letting users pay transaction fees in the asset they send and by replacing long wallet addresses with human-readable names like &#8220;name@tether.me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The move is notable for Tether because it marks a shift to a consumer-facing app from being an intermediary in crypto payments issuing the most popular digital dollar, the $185 billion USDT token. Tether said more than 570 million users already interact with its technology, largely indirectly through exchanges and payment rails. The new wallet brings those functions into a direct interface, where users control their private keys and sign transactions on their own devices.<\/p>\n<p>The launch builds on Tether\u2019s Wallet Development Kit (WDK), an open-source toolkit the firm developed for third-party efforts such as the Rumble wallet, which uses Tether&#8217;s infrastructure to enable creator payments and peer-to-peer transfers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tether.wallet is &#8216;the People\u2019s Wallet,&#8217; said Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino, &#8220;because it truly reflects the natural evolution of Tether\u2019s role, from building the foundation of the digital asset economy to making it directly usable by anyone, ready for a future in which tens of billions of humans, machines, and trillions of AI agents will transact seamlessly at the speed of light.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tether, issuer of the most popular stablecoin USDT USDT$1.0001, rolled out Tuesday a self-custodial crypto wallet aimed at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[85,46,321,125,32248],"class_list":{"0":"post-392790","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-mobile","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-tether"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}