{"id":106230,"date":"2020-11-06T12:44:40","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T09:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/tether-market-cap-surpasses-17-billion-fueling-bitcoin-price-rally\/"},"modified":"2020-11-06T12:44:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T09:44:40","slug":"tether-market-cap-surpasses-17-billion-fueling-bitcoin-price-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/tether-market-cap-surpasses-17-billion-fueling-bitcoin-price-rally\/","title":{"rendered":"# Tether market cap surpasses $17 billion, fueling Bitcoin price rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong># Tether market cap surpasses $17 billion, fueling Bitcoin price rally <\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div data-v-5a136f3a=\"\">According to Tether\u2019s official transparency <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wallet.tether.to\/transparency\">data<\/a>, the USDT market cap crossed a $17 billion mark for the first time, hitting over $17 billion in total assets.<\/p>\n<p>Tether\u2019s market cap has been growing exponentially in 2020. As of mid-September, Tether\u2019s market cap saw nearly a four-fold increase since the beginning of the year, surging above $15 billion from around $4 billion. <\/p>\n<p>According to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/stablecoinindex.com\/marketcap\">data<\/a> from crypto analytics firm Messari, USDT saw a notable increase from August 2020 to date. As such, USDT added more than $5 billion in market cap over the past three months.<\/p>\n<p>Tether (USDT), the largest stablecoin in the cryptocurrency market, is seeing a massive influx in its market capitalization, which is likely fuelling the current Bitcoin (BTC) price rally.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2020-11\/8e2344e6-f36d-4715-86b6-3704ad98f85b.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"\/><figcaption style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Stablecoin market capitalization. Source: Messari<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to Ki Young-Ju \u2014 CEO of crypto data platform CryptoQuant \u2014 the latest crypto rally is being driven by an increased amount of deposits in stablecoins like USDT. On Nov. 5, he pointed out:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAgain, the $BTC price soared right after the number of stable coin deposits increased.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ki Young-Ju previously drew attention to this correlation in October, noting that the influx of stablecoin deposits was \u201chelpful to predict the BTC surge at the end of July.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cryptoquant.com\/overview\/full\/596?window=day&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=overview&amp;utm_campaign=pc_u\">Data<\/a> from CryptoQuant also shows stablecoin inflow transactions hitting new 2020 highs on Oct. 18, exceeding 60,000 transactions. The number of such transactions has fallen since, however, accounting for about 30,000 by the end of October.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/general\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">General category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/tether-market-cap-surpasses-17b-fueling-bitcoin-price-rally\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;# Tether market cap surpasses $17 billion, fueling Bitcoin price rally &#8221; According to Tether\u2019s official transparency data, the USDT market cap crossed a $17 billion mark for the first time, hitting over $17 billion in total assets. Tether\u2019s market cap has been growing exponentially in 2020. As of mid-September, Tether\u2019s market cap saw nearly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2020-11\/7f9449e8-7e97-4679-b3c8-e14b7fa1dda2.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[74862,74937,74863,74860,74880,75688,36041],"class_list":["post-106230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-bitcoin","tag-bitcoin-price","tag-cryptocurrencies","tag-cryptocurrency-exchange","tag-transactions","tag-usdt","tag-tether"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}