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Why Tether Is Acting More Like A Central Bank Than A Stablecoin
Authored by Bradley Peak via CoinTelegraph.com,
• Tether operates a Treasury- and repo-heavy balance sheet, holding $181.2 billion in reserves against $174.5 billion in liabilities, leaving $6.8 billion in excess.
• High interest rates have turned those reserves into profit, generating more than $10 billion in interest income so far in 2025, which is uncommon for a typical crypto issuer.
• It exercises policy-style levers by freezing sanctioned wallets, shifting supported blockchains and allocating up to 15% of profits to Bitcoin.
• The central bank comparison has limits. Tether has no public mandate or backstop, relies on attestations instead of full audits and depends on private counterparties.
Tether no longer looks like a simple stablecoin company. It runs a balance sheet packed with short-term US Treasurys, reverse repos, gold and even Bitcoin. It mints and redeems dollars at scale and can freeze addresses at the request of law enforcement.