Krisztian Sandor is a reporter on the U.S. markets team focusing on stablecoins and institutional investment. He holds BTC and ETH.
The platform, called Hadron, was designed to simplify the process of converting a wide range of real-world assets including bonds, commodities, stocks, other stablecoins and loyalty points into digital tokens on blockchain rails.Tether's goal with the new platform is to unlock"alternative financing and capital markets opportunities for nation states and corporations," according to a blog post.
The service encompasses the full life-cycle of tokenization, including tools for risk management, know-your-customer and anti-money-laundering compliance and secondary market monitoring. The platform at the beginning supports Ethereum, Avalanche and Bitcoin scaling network Liquid by Blockstream, and"soon" will add the Telegram-adjacent TON network and other smart contract chains, a Tether spokesperson said in an email to CoinDesk.
"We believe 'Hadron by Tether' will significantly improve the financial industry," Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino said in a statement."Our goal is to create new opportunities for businesses and governments, while also making the digital asset space more accessible and transparent." 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 companyfrom 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.
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