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- Tether has announced a USDT integration with Bitcoin's Lightning Network for faster transactions.
- USDT aims to strengthen its usefulness throughout the AI -led economy, which uses remittance and bitcoin.
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The tether has announced a USDT integration into Bitcoin's ecosystem, including both base layers and lightning networks, according to a statement in the El Salvador Plan Forum.
This integration, equipped with a Taproots Assets protocol developed by Lightning Labs, combines bitcoin's decentralization, security and Lightning efficiency to unlock the new use case of StableCoin transaction.
USDT, which provides services to more than 350 million users, aims to expand the reach of AI -led economy, remittance, and payment across borders.
“The tethers are working to promote the innovation of Bitcoin's ecosystem,” said Paolo Ardinino, Teser CEO. “By enabling USDT in the Lightning network, we have created a practical solution for financial applications that require both speed and reliability, and strengthen the basic principles of bitcoin.”
The CEO Elizabeth Stark of Lightning Labs added,
“Bringing USDT to bitcoin combines the security of bitcoin and the distributed to the lightning speed and the scalability.”
The USDT has maintained a market capitalization of $ 140 billion as of January 2025, and has been integrated into more than 80 blockchain networks.
StableCoin is currently operated at the minimum transaction rate on networks such as Tron and Solana, and offers a sub -tent fee.
The collaboration between Tether and Lightning Labs continues to focus on integrated development to promote recruitment between developers and users, and has expanded bitcoin utility beyond stores.
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