Tether is Stackin' Heavy: 27 Tons of Gold Added 🚀
Tether just dropped their Q4 2025 numbers, and it's official they aren't just playing with dollars anymore. They scooped up another 27 metric tons of gold last quarter.
If you’ve been watching the charts, you know Gold has been absolutely vertical. We’re talking about a 64% jump in 2025, and now it’s sitting pretty above $5,000/oz. Tether is essentially riding this wave to fortify the reserves backing USDT and XAUT.
Here’s the breakdown:
The Buy: 27 tons in Q4 (matching the 26 tons they grabbed in Q3).
The Context: Gold hit $5,000 on Monday. Tether is now buying at a scale usually reserved for actual countries (Central Banks).
The Scale: USDT is sitting at a massive $187B circulation, while their gold-backed token, XAUT, is at $2.7B.
Paolo Ardoino basically said they’re operating at "sovereign" levels now. When a stablecoin issuer starts acting like a central bank, you know the global financial landscape is shifting.
Is this a move to de-risk from US Treasuries, or just Tether flexin' their massive profits? Either way, seeing $5k gold backed by crypto reserves is wild.
What do you guys think? Is Tether becoming "too big to fail" or is this the ultimate hedge? 👇
