On 30 September 2025, on‑chain analysts reported that Tether, the issuer of the USDT stablecoin, purchased about 8,888.889 BTC (often rounded to 8,889 BTC) worth roughly $1 billion and moved it into a designated bitcoin reserve address on the last day of Q3 2025. The transaction was first highlighted by on‑chain tracker OnchainLens using Nansen data, which linked the inflow to Tether and identified the receiving wallet as a Tether reserve address. Media reports indicate the coins were transferred from a Bitfinex hot wallet to Tether’s reserve wallet, consistent with the relationship between Bitfinex and Tether under the same corporate group. This purchase fits into Tether’s publicly stated strategy of allocating 15% of its net profits to bitcoin as part of a long‑term reserve diversification policy announced in May 2023. With this Q3 2025 buy, estimates put Tether’s bitcoin holdings in the range of 86,000–109,000 BTC, depending on whether earlier or later tallies are used, making Tether one of the largest corporate holders of bitcoin globally. Cryptopolitan reports that the new acquisition increased the bitcoin share of Tether’s balance sheet by about 11%, with the reserve wallet holding 86,335 BTC at that time and an unrealized profit of several billion dollars based on historical purchase prices. ForkLog, in a later accounting that includes subsequent quarters, cites 109,410 BTC (~$12.4 billion), noting that Tether has become the second‑largest private company bitcoin holder and third overall when public firms are included. The timing—on the final day of Q3 2025—continues a pattern in which Tether executes large, block‑sized bitcoin purchases around quarter‑end, often during periods of broader market stress. Analysts view these moves as reinforcing Tether’s positioning of bitcoin as “digital gold” within its reserve mix, gradually increasing BTC’s weight relative to assets like gold while the stablecoin market expands and USDT records substantial net inflows. The transaction has also drawn attention because Tether’s reserve composition influences perceptions of USDT’s backing and systemic importance in crypto markets, given USDT’s dominant share of the global stablecoin supply and its role in liquidity and trading pairs across exchanges. "entities":["Tether","USDT","Bitcoin (BTC)","OnchainLens","Nansen","Bitfinex","Paolo Ardoino","ForkLog","Cryptopolitan"]}`

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