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Tether’s ambition to venture into asset tokenization, a red-hot trend at the intersection of crypto and traditional finance, has been well-documented as the company strives to diversify from its highly-profitable stablecoin business. The company issues the $126 billion dollar stablecoin USDT and the $600 million gold-backed token XAUT, and reported f $7.7 billion in group-wide net profits this year so far, in large part from the yield on its $80 billion stockpile of U.S. Treasuries. It has used the profits to invest in startups, bitcoin mining, energy production and AI.
