Tether has introduced the launch of a brand new asset referred to as Alloy, a wise contract-issued over-collateralized asset backed by Tether Gold.
At the moment, the documentation for this product states that if the worth of Alloy tokens you mint exceeds 75% of the worth of the collateral deposited, then the good contract will liquidate the place.
Tether Gold is an older gold-backed asset issued by the corporate that’s pegged to the worth of gold and is supposedly backed by gold held in Switzerland.
The conventional USDT pegged to the worth of the US greenback are additionally backed by gold owned by Tether, with its most up-to-date attestation noting over $3.6 billion in ‘precious metals,’ which is described as ‘physical gold bars owned by the Tether International Limited.’
The worth of the gold bars backing USDT is roughly seven occasions bigger than the overall quantity of gold held for Tether Gold on the time of the final attestation.
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In some sense, Tether has consolidated its reserves throughout a number of stablecoins, together with its Mexican Peso stablecoin, its offshore Yuan stablecoin, and its Euro stablecoins. This implies they’re additionally backed by this gold and Tether Alloy is the sixth gold-backed asset issued by the agency.
Tether additional claims that Alloy can be “an open platform that” will enable the creation of belongings backed by quite a lot of different belongings, “including yield-bearing products.”
Tether chief exec Paolo Ardoino has already taken to X to warn customers that it’s not doing an airdrop, following the emergence of numerous impostor web sites.
At the moment, the web site for Alloy says the market capitalization is lower than $4 and has 0.00 kilograms of gold backing it.
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