In May 2023, Tether introduced a policy to regularly allocate up to 15% of its quarterly net realized operating profits to purchasing Bitcoin to hold in self-custody

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.