Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino introduced the Independence Stack initiative, covering decentralized technology projects spanning energy, Bitcoin mining, communications, self-custody wallets, and artificial intelligence

Tokens pegged to stable value, usually the US dollar, spanning issuers and reserves, depegs, and adoption by banks and payment networks.

The first and largest cryptocurrency, spanning its price and adoption, mining, protocol politics, and its contested role as digital money and inflation hedge.