Bitfinex Took 630 Million Tether Out of Circulation After Drop Below $1

Bitfinex is sending massive quantities of tether tokens back to the vaults.

The cryptocurrency exchange has overlapping management and owners with Tether Ltd., the company that issues a dollar-linked cryptocurrency of the same name (often abbreviated USDT). Both firms have come under increasing scrutiny following USDT’s dramatic break with dollar parity last week, when the exchange rate briefly dropped as low as $0.85 on the Kraken exchange. It has yet to fully recover.

It’s notable, then, that a wallet address controlled by Bitfinex has sent 630 million USDT to an address known as the “Tether treasury” in six large transactions over recent days. The first, of 200 million USDT, was sent the morning of Oct. 14, when Tether’s dollar exchange rate was beginning to hit multi-month lows.

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