Le président de Tether Giancarlo Devasini devient la cinquième fortune mondiale après une levée de 20 milliards de dollars
L'écosystème crypto voit naître un nouveau géant financier.
L'ascension fulgurante de Tether
La stablecoin USDT propulse son dirigeant vers l'olympe des fortunes mondiales. Giancarlo Devasini capitalise sur le succès phénoménal de l'entreprise après cette manne historique de 20 milliards de dollars.
Réalignement de la finance traditionnelle
Les banques centrales observent, médusées, comment un actif numérique dépasse les levées de fonds conventionnelles. Le système financier hérité grince des dents face à cette redistribution des cartes.
Un pied de nez à Wall Street
Devasini incarne désormais la réussite décentralisée - une ironie magistrale pour ceux qui doutaient encore de la viabilité des stablecoins. Les puristes de la finance s'arrachent les cheveux devant cette validation par les chiffres.
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Tether’s leadership would become richer than every other crypto billionaire
If the company hits that half-trillion number, Paolo Ardoino, who took over as CEO in late 2023, would walk away with around $95 billion. So would former CEO Jean-Louis van der Velde. Another shareholder, Stuart Hoegner, would take home over $60 billion.
That means all four of them would jump past Changpeng Zhao, the Binance founder who’s sitting on $52 billion. Jeremy Allaire, co-founder of Circle, the company behind USDC, doesn’t even come close, as he’s at $2.6 billion.
The bank running point on the deal is Cantor Fitzgerald. The firm isn’t just advising. It manages Tether’s reserves and also holds a convertible bond issued by the company. If this placement closes, Cantor gets paid on all sides.
Tether’s profits exploded as USDT circulation soared
The valuation isn’t just smoke. USDT, Tether’s dollar-pegged stablecoin, is the biggest one out there with a market value of $172 billion. Its growth has been tied directly to profits. As more tokens get issued and interest rates stay high, the company earns more off its reserve assets.
In a July blog post, Tether said it earned $4.9 billion in Q2 alone. The company also wrote in its transparency report that it paid out $7.4 billion in dividends in the first half of the year. So, yeah, the money’s real.
The PEOPLE behind this company didn’t come from Wall Street. Giancarlo, now 61, used to be a plastic surgeon in Italy, but dropped the scalpel after two years. He started flipping DVDs and memory chips, then got into crypto through Bitfinex, an exchange he invested in. He ended up running it.
Later, he joined forces with Brock Pierce (former child actor) and Reeve Collins to launch Tether back in 2014. Giancarlo eventually bought out their shares.
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