Tether CEO Reveals Why 2025 Was Perfect Timing for US Entry - Bitcoin Strategy & USAT Insights from 99Bitcoins Event
Tether's top executive drops bombshell timing rationale for American expansion as Bitcoin dominance grows.
The 2025 Advantage
Tether's CEO explains why this specific moment in financial history creates the ideal landscape for US market penetration. Regulatory clarity meets institutional demand in perfect storm conditions.
Bitcoin's Central Role
The stablecoin giant's strategy leans heavily on Bitcoin's maturation as institutional asset class. No more hedging - direct correlation between crypto reserves and traditional finance acceptance.
USAT Expansion Mechanics
Behind-the-scenes details on infrastructure scaling and banking partnerships that make 2025 deployment feasible where previous attempts stalled. Because apparently waiting for traditional finance to catch up requires the patience of a blockchain confirmation.
Tether's calculated move signals broader crypto acceptance - whether Wall Street's ready or not.
“Bitcoin is the greatest commodity on earth,” Said Cantor Fitzgerald Chairman
“I think that 2024 was the first big year for institutional adoption of Bitcoin with the first ETFs. But I think we are still early. There is a lot of skeptics in the world. I still meet a lot of fans, a lot of companies that are afraid to touch Bitcoin with a 10-foot pole,” Cantor Fitzgerald Chairman said. “It’s clear how Bitcoin is becoming more and more a hedge against all the darkness that is happening in the world. And it doesn’t hurt to study, to educate, to understand it. I think as an industry and also from the institutional point of view, we need to do a better job to make it more accessible.”
“Cantor is one of 25 US primary dealers. So we will be custodying all the USAT assets, like we custody already a lot of the USDT assets,” said Lutnick. “It’s just the beginning for the US. And you’re going to see a lot of real tradified companies catch up to what Cantor’s been trying to do.”
“We were just trying to bring real credibility to the space as a real classic institution”
Tether Launches Local AI Platform QVAC
Describing his newest launch, Ardoino said, “We launched our new product called QVAC, that is a local AI platform. The term QVAC comes from my preferred author – Isaac Asimov. He’s one of the most prolific authors in sci-fi and in history. And QVAC is a soon to be open source platform that aims to bring the execution, the inference and the fine tuning of artificial intelligence models directly on any device from embedded devices to any smartphone.”
“I predict that in the next five years – for more than 90% of the use cases of AI, you will be able to run them locally, maintaining your privacy, preserving your independence,” he added.
“ I think not knowing what is behind the scenes of your AI models – that you are executing with your own data and you’re feeding your own data to – is going to be very detrimental to our freedom and our privacy. I think that we are going to see that more and more, and it will be one of the biggest societal challenges in the history of humanity,” he added. “So, we wanted to prove to the world that as for cloud, you don’t need cloud for 99% of the use cases, yet we use cloud for 100% of the time. But really, you need cloud only as a backup, not as a connector among people. Internet is built and was built from the beginning to be peer-to-peer. And we believe that AI also should be peer-to-peer.”
Tether’s Quiet Revolution: From Stablecoins to Peer-to-Peer AI Workbenches
The cryptocurrency giant Tether, best known for its global stablecoin USDT, has entered a completely new frontier — edge AI computing — through its initiative QVAC Workbench and the PEAR peer-to-peer… pic.twitter.com/boUq3rgOVD
— Javed Alam (@jalam1001) October 29, 2025
Key Takeaways
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Both Tether CEO And Cantor Fitzgerald CEO agree on AI, Bitcoin potential.
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“I think that 2024 was the first big year for institutional adoption of Bitcoin with the first ETFs,” said Cantor Fitzgerald Chairman
