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Why Everyone is Rushing to Launch Their Own Stablecoin $33.3B in hidden profits: Why USDT’s "dead coins" are driving the global stablecoin gold rush. In 2026, a "stablecoin" is nothing more than a line in a tiny database: your wallet address and the balance next to it. This database can live across thousands of Ethereum nodes, ten Solana nodes, or centrally on an L2. The issuer holds absolute control. They can mint, burn, freeze addresses, and decide who gets to redeem and who gets blacklisted. It’s a centralized ledger mapping asset distribution across addresses. The blockchain is just a glorified settlement layer for moving balances around. The playbook is dead simple: you hand over a dollar, and you get a "trusted" digital dollar back. The issuer then publicly flexes their "clean" yield: backing the reserves with T-bills, money market funds, repo agreements, and cash deposits, while pocketing 100% of the yield. As of Q1 2026, #Tether held roughly $117B in U.S. Treasury Bills, nearly $20B in gold, and around $7B in Bitcoin. They are printing money: $1.04B in net profit for the quarter on a circulating supply of ~$185B USDT. Tether loves bragging about these numbers. But there’s a massive catch. #USDT has been around since 2014 (shoutout to Realcoin,if you remember, you're an OG). Over these 12 years, a staggering amount of tokens have been lost, forgotten, fat-fingered to the wrong addresses, left as dust on dead wallets, locked up with deceased owners, or seized by feds. Millions are frozen, blacklisted, delisted from exchanges, and simply never coming back for redemption. On paper, this is a Tether liability. In reality, no one will ever claim these tokens or even prove they own them (good luck getting a reply from Tether support). This is where the real magic of centralized stablecoins happens. If you have $185B in circulating supply, but a massive chunk of holders will never show up to claim their dollars, you don't need a "100% immediate redemption" model. How much is actually lost? For context, public estimates show that up to 18% of all #Bitcoin is lost forever. And Bitcoin doesn't even have to deal with dusting from micro-transactions, blacklists, asset seizures, or exchange delistings. Stablecoins have way more "death vectors." You can't just write off dead coins as pure profit on the balance sheet, you can't prove the owner won't magically reappear. So, Tether keeps backing them as a permanent liability. But this liability is free, interest-free, and perpetual. Which means the yield from it drips into their pockets forever. A beautifully profitable $33.3B stack of dead money. These permanently lost tokens are the exact reason why everyone and their mother is rushing to launch a stablecoin right now. Even if you don't scale to Tether’s $185B level, the endgame is the same: onboard users into a "decentralized," clunky, and highly restricted environment where they shoulder 100% of the risk regarding keys, addresses, exploits, and losses. Meanwhile, the actual fiat deposits, the yield, and the raw liquidity? That stays with you.

Is bitcoin:native good or evil?

Bitcoin is stuck below local resistance while Open Interest keeps rising. More positions, more leverage, more tension. That’s not a breakout signal. It’s pressure building inside a tight range. First move often comes from forced liquidations, not conviction. Watch who gets squeezed first and then judge the trend.

Just a little timeline from this month: April 1 - Drift exploit April 7 - @AnthropicAI drops Mythos April 17- @KelpDAO hacked #AI is everywhere in cybersecurity. Just not in the way anyone expected.

Following @KelpDAO exploit, @aave is facing up to a $300M bad debt hole. Importantly, aave itself wasn't hacked or compromised, but the incident triggered a massive liquidity outflow. As a result, yields have spiked in some interfaces to as high as 13%, levels we haven’t seen before. AAVE is trying to attract liquidity back. At first glance, this may look like an attractive opportunity to deploy stablecoins into Aave via @Tangem. BUT DYOR

I decided to stake $SOL via my @Tangem wallet. Solid % in the current market.I’ve already tested a bunch of features, and everything works flawlessly. If you want 30% off a cold wallet, use my link. tangem.com/invite/CK

Well then… not even a day has passed and hostilities have resumed again. Judging by everything, ships are still barely passing through the Strait of Hormuz, oil prices are rising again. Overall, strong turbulence is possible in the crypto market. Stay prepared, don’t trade with 20x leverage, and don’t forget to use stop losses.

Short-term $BTC price prediction Bitcoin hit $72k a key and obvious short stop level. After a brief pullback, we could move up toward $74K. 74k-79k zone looks attractive as a target for this rebound during 2-week ‘truce’ period in US|ISRAEL|IRAN war.

March 2026 in numbers: The Gulf war is still ongoing #BTC -1.3% #GOLD -13.5% Dollar +3.4% #OIL +63% #SPY500 -7.9%

Large companies like Palantir Technologies, OpenAI, and others have firmly established themselves in the use of #AI for military applications. It’s hard to believe, but this is reality though it feels like something out of Terminator with @Schwarzenegger The 54% increase on the graph confirms this.

BTC March comparison shows clear liquidity-driven cycles: 2024: ~+20% strong trend expansion, ETF inflows, short squeezes dominate 2025: ~−2% distribution phase, sellers absorb demand 2026: high volatility with $280M–$450M daily liquidations. Forced deleveraging and liquidity sweeps

Everyone on X is acting like the market is collapsing. But when you actually look at the derivatives data, the story looks very different. Over the last move we saw more than $1B in long #liquidations get wiped out while Open Interest dropped from around $220B to roughly $150B. That’s a massive reset of leverage across the entire market. And this is the part most people miss. The biggest crashes usually happen when leverage keeps building while price stalls. That’s when the market becomes fragile. But right now leverage is getting flushed out aggressively while the broader structure is still holding. Historically this kind of environment is where markets tend to stabilize before the next real move begins, because the weak hands and overleveraged positions are already gone. So while the timeline is full of panic, the underlying data actually looks more like a market reset than the start of a collapse. by @coinglass_com

Since the Gulf war began #GOLD has been trading like a $500K market cap shitcoin. Parabolic surge followed by a ~25% drawdown from ATH. It’s still unclear whether this is a correction or bear market. UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, etc., may be forced to sell gold to stabilize their markets. Meanwhile, #Bitcoin continues to show relative strength against both gold and #SPX. BTC is maturing.

Bitcoin $74K breakout scenario played out perfectly. Now we wait for buyers to step in. A move lower to grab liquidity would make sense next.

Mid-term $BTC analytics Global news looks like a perfect recipe for panic. War between Iran, the US and Israel are escalating, oil and gas markets are nervous, and real estate in the Middle East is starting to feel the pressure.Normally this is exactly the type of environment where investors rush to sell risk assets first. Crypto usually takes the hit before anything else.But this time it didn’t really happen.Instead, during the recent correction we actually saw gold being sold off. Not the scenario most people were expecting.Meanwhile Bitcoin is just sitting there, relatively stable. Looking at the chart, BTC is currently moving inside a pretty wide range between $63k and $74k. Nothing dramatic yet, just a lot of liquidity building on both sides.Could we see a move below $60k? Absolutely. It would not be surprising to see a move upward first, clear that liquidity, and only then decide where to go next.For now the market feels less like a trend and more like a chess game.

My last post about cold wallets blew up. Security is clearly top of mind, especially in this market, in this crazy world. We’re about to step back in the ring. Three heavyweights: @Tangem , @Trezor , @Ledger No hype. Just facts and personal experience.