Tether Takes USDT to Bitcoin as Morgan Stanley Talks Emerge
Tether said it plans to issue USDT natively on Bitcoin through RGB, and Paolo Ardoino repeated that USDT is coming back to Bitcoin. Separate commentary linked Morgan Stanley personnel to discussions about the setup, but no bank rollout has been announced. Another update said RGB and Lightning infrastructure now support the wider Bitcoin plan, while one piece said the Morgan Stanley claim remains unconfirmed.
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Users and market participants who follow USDT on Bitcoin are seeing a live plan rather than a finished rollout. The current change is that Tether is talking about native issuance on Bitcoin through RGB, while a bank-linked discussion has been mentioned without any announced deployment.
In practice, the setup being discussed is different from ordinary on-chain issuance because RGB keeps contract data off-chain while using Bitcoin for commitments. At the same time, the broader Bitcoin-side plan still leaves room for the existing infrastructure story around RGB and Lightning to remain part of the picture.
What is still unknown is whether the Morgan Stanley-related talks amount to a formal partnership or anything more than a discussion. The clearest open point is whether and when any bank-facing adoption work would move beyond the named conversations in Washington, which has not been announced.
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| 1.0 years ago | BTC a 1.152e+05 $ high | today it sits -29.1 % from there |
| 4 months ago | BTC a 5.857e+04 $ low | today it sits +39.5 % from there |
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