{"id":140314,"date":"2026-03-06T17:09:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T17:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=140314"},"modified":"2026-03-06T17:09:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T17:09:22","slug":"tethers-7-5m-bet-on-bitcoin-payments-using-usdt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=140314","title":{"rendered":"Tether\u2019s $7.5M bet on Bitcoin payments using USDT"},"content":{"rendered":"

As majors sell off, Tether quietly doubles down on turning Bitcoin into a $-settlement backbone via Lightning-native USDT rails. Tether has taken a calculated step to bind USDT more tightly to Bitcoin\u2019s base layer, co-leading a $7.5M financing round for\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As majors sell off, Tether quietly doubles down on turning Bitcoin into a $-settlement backbone via Lightning-native USDT rails. Tether has taken a calculated step to bind USDT more tightly to Bitcoin\u2019s base layer, co-leading a $7.5M financing round for\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":140315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/140315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}