2023-02-15
Tether Holdings Limited, the company who created Tether stablecoin (USDT), reported a net profit of $700 million in fourth quarter of 2022. Tether is the largest stablecoin with the market cap of $69 billion. As of February 13, 2023, Tether market share in stablecoin industry made up 49.39%. Tether, Circle, and Paxos are the issuers of USDT, USDC, and BUSD.
Tether makes money from withdrawal
fees, investment in money market funds, and providing loans to other
institutions. 71.25% of Tether reserves are US treasure bills, only 9.66% of
reserves are cash and cash deposits. 13.39% of reserves come from money market
funds. Secured loans make up 8.73% of Tether reserves.
Stablecoins market share
Tether 49.39%
USDC 29.76%
BUSD 11.63%