Tether scales back $20 billion funding ambitions after investor resistance: FT
Yahoo Finance·2026-02-04 16:52

Tether has quietly pulled back from plans to raise as much as 20billioninfreshcapitalafterfacinginvestorresistancetoaproposedvaluationthatwouldrankthestablecoinissueramongtheworldsmostvaluableprivatecompanies,peranFTreportonWednesday.Thecompany,whichissuestheUSDTstablecoinwithover20 billion in fresh capital after facing investor resistance to a proposed valuation that would rank the stablecoin issuer among the world’s most valuable private companies, per an FT report on Wednesday. The company, which issues the USDT stablecoin with over 185 billion in circulation, had explored a funding round last year that could have valued Tether at around $500 billion, according to people familiar with the talks. Advisers have sin ...

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