Global Adoption

Tether Invests in Parfin to Help Latin American Stablecoin Adoption

Tether, the company behind the world’s largest stablecoin USDT said Thursday it has invested in Parfin, a Latin American crypto firm that builds digital asset infrastructure for institutions.

The firm said the deal will help scale tools for banks and institutions to move more of their operations onto blockchain rails, a shift Tether sees as critical for making crypto infrastructure more practical and accessible in regions with limited financial infrastructure. The firms did not disclose details of the investment.

The investment is part of Tether’s larger push to deepen its footprint in emerging markets and expand the real-world use of USDT for cross-border payments and asset tokenization. The partnership also signals that Tether, long seen primarily as a retail-focused stablecoin issuer for emerging market users, is now pushing deeper into the institutional layer of crypto finance.

Parfin offers tools for custody, tokenization, and blockchain-based settlement aimed at financial institutions. Its services are tailored for use cases like trade finance, credit markets, and institutional payments, areas where Tether wants to see broader adoption of USDT as a settlement asset.
Terron Gold

Recent Posts

39 U.S. Banking Associations Join Forces to Build Nationwide Blockchain Network

Thirty-nine U.S. state banking associations are joining forces to build their own nationwide blockchain network,…

4 days ago

Bitcoin Gets a Quantum Lifeboat as StarkWare Executes Historic Mainnet Transaction

StarkWare says it has successfully executed the first quantum-resistant Bitcoin transaction on the Bitcoin mainnet,…

4 days ago

OpenAI’s AI Agents Went Rogue and Built Their Own Network to Hack Hugging Face

An independent investigation into OpenAI’s recent Hugging Face security incident found something far stranger than…

4 days ago

GTA 6 Leaker Pumps His Own Memecoin Then Cashes Out $270K Before Rockstar Reveal

The anonymous hacker behind a wave of Grand Theft Auto VI leaks appears to have…

4 days ago

Keep Your Bitcoin and Buy the House as Coinbase and Better Take Crypto Mortgages Nationwide

Coinbase and Better Mortgage are making token-backed mortgages broadly available to Coinbase One members, allowing…

4 days ago

Grayscale Launches First U.S. Zcash ETF as ZEC Surges

Grayscale has officially launched the first U.S.-listed exchange-traded product dedicated solely to Zcash, bringing the…

5 days ago