SPX Tether minted $1 billion in new USDT on the TRON network in the past day. Circle minted $250 million in new USDC on the Solana network. Since 2025, Tether has minted a total of $2 billion in USDT, and Circle has minted a total of $6.5 billion in USDC on Solana.
SPX Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino revealed that Tether is developing AI applications such as AI translation, AI voice assistant, and AI Bitcoin wallet assistant, and plans to launch an open source AI SDK platform. The platform is based on Bare (Holepunch's JavaScript runtime) and can run on embedded devices, mobile phones (including low-end models), notebooks, servers, and server clusters, providing privacy protection and enabling self-custody of data and funds.
SPX Kaspersky security team found that some application development kits (SDKs) on Google Play and Apple App Store have embedded malware SparkCat, which can use OCR technology to scan user pictures and steal crypto wallet mnemonics. It is suspected that 242,000 devices have been infected.
SPX U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he is in no hurry to speak to Chinese President Xi Jinping to try to defuse a new trade war between the world's two largest economies sparked by his sweeping 10% tariffs on all Chinese imports. "That's fine," Trump said at the White House when asked about China's retaliatory duties.
BTCUSDT MicroStrategy, the world's largest corporate holder of Bitcoin, revealed a significant change in its Bitcoin acquisition strategy on Monday.
Despite its reputation as a "Bitcoin treasury company," MicroStrategy disclosed that it halted Bitcoin purchases last week.
"Last week, MicroStrategy did not sell any shares of Class A common stock under its at-the-market equity offering program and did not acquire any Bitcoin," Executive Chairman Michael Saylor announced on social media.
For twelve consecutive weeks, the firm had been actively accumulating Bitcoin, now holding 471,107 BTC—equivalent to 2.25% of Bitcoin's total global supply.
The company invested roughly $30.4 billion in its Bitcoin holdings, with an average purchase price of around $64,511 per Bitcoin.
A significant portion of these acquisitions took place over the past 12 weeks, during which MicroStrategy spent over $20 billion on Bitcoin-buying sprees.
In December, Saylor remained optimistic about continued Bitcoin purchases, emphasizing its potential as a store of value and hedge against inflation. “Every day is a good day to buy Bitcoin,” he told CNBC. He compared Bitcoin to prime real estate, stating, “We look at it as Cyber Manhattan. I would have bought Manhattan 100 years ago, 200 years ago. Every year for the past 300 years, you pay a little more than the previous buyer, but it remains a solid investment in the economic capital of the free world.”
On Polymarket, a popular prediction platform, crypto investors are now betting that MicroStrategy’s likelihood of reaching 500,000 Bitcoin before March has dropped to 51%—a 28% decline.
NAS100SPXBTCUSDTDIATSLA The State Department orders the shutdown of USAID overseas missions and recalls staff, sources say. Elon Musk is working hard to implement a $2 trillion U.S. spending cut. If he can manage it and push long-term bond yields below 3.5%, the era of Goldilocks would begin.