{"id":89595,"date":"2025-10-04T13:28:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T10:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=89595"},"modified":"2025-10-04T13:30:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T10:30:13","slug":"tether-and-antalpha-seek-200-million-for-tether-gold-treasury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/tether-and-antalpha-seek-200-million-for-tether-gold-treasury\/","title":{"rendered":"Tether and Antalpha Seek $200 Million for Tether Gold Treasury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-tether-usdt\">Tether<\/a> and the Bitmain-affiliated financial firm Antalpha aim to raise $200 million for an entity that will establish a treasury in <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-are-stablecoins\">the stablecoin<\/a> Tether Gold (XAUT), according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-10-03\/stablecoin-leader-tether-seeks-capital-for-tokenized-gold-hoard\">Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>&#8220;If successful, the company will use the capital to accumulate XAUT, Tether&#8217;s gold-backed token,&#8221; the article states.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sources indicated that the funding negotiations are confidential, with Cohen &#038; Co. serving as the lead advisor on the deal.<\/p>\n<p>Journalists suggest that the partnership will strengthen existing ties between the largest issuer of &#8220;stablecoins&#8221; and the leading producer of mining equipment. According to data from the Cambridge University Business School,<\/p>\n<p>Bitmain accounts for 82% of global cryptocurrency mining equipment shipments.<\/p>\n<p>In late September, Antalpha announced an expansion of its collaboration with Tether, including lending offerings backed by XAUT and other services related to the &#8220;gold&#8221; stablecoin through its <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-are-rwas-real-world-assets\">RWA<\/a> hub.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We are proud to announce the expansion of our collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tether_to?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Tether_to<\/a>, further integrating Tether Gold ($XAU\u20ae) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tethergold?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@tethergold<\/a> into our RWA Hub.<\/p>\n<p>Through this partnership, we will now offer $XAU\u20ae-backed lending and full-stack infrastructure solutions, making digital gold more\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eXaGQpoY0N\">pic.twitter.com\/eXaGQpoY0N<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Antalpha Global (@AntalphaGlobal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AntalphaGlobal\/status\/1972612037546320295?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 29, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The firm announced the creation of physical vaults in major financial centers to facilitate the exchange of tokens for gold bars by investors. Previously, Tether acquired an 8.1% stake in Antalpha.<\/p>\n<p>Since the beginning of the year, the price of the precious metal has risen by 48%, while the market capitalization of Tether Gold has more than doubled. At the time of writing, there are 375,572 XAUT in circulation, valued at approximately $1.45 billion (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/coins\/tether-gold\">CoinGecko<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>By the end of the second quarter, the market supply of the stablecoin was about 250,000 tokens, backed by <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/tether-reveals-7-6-tons-of-gold-backing-for-xaut\">7.6 tonnes of gold<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of September, the total capitalization of &#8220;stablecoins&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/stablecoin-market-capitalisation-surpasses-300-billion\">exceeded $300 billion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by Bloomberg, Tether <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/softbank-and-ark-investment-consider-20-billion-investment-in-tether\">is in talks<\/a> with investors, including SoftBank and Ark Investment, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/tether-seeks-20-billion-to-reach-500-billion-valuation-reports-suggest\">to raise $20 billion<\/a> at a valuation of $500 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tether and the Bitmain-affiliated financial firm Antalpha aim to raise $200 million for an entity that will establish a treasury in the stablecoin Tether Gold (XAUT), according to Bloomberg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"Tether and Antalpha plan to raise $200 million for a Tether Gold treasury.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[426,536,807,1245],"class_list":["post-89595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitmain","tag-gold","tag-stablecoins","tag-tether-usdt"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"201","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"Tether and Antalpha plan to raise $200 million for a Tether Gold treasury.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89597,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89595\/revisions\/89597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}