Tether Invests $20M in Mercado Bitcoin to Expand Brazil Operations

Bolsonaro's legal troubles may weaken political allies and reshape Brazil's political landscape ahead of the 2026 presidential election. The post Brazilian police search Bolsonaro’s home for weapons amid coup investigation appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

The post Tether’s Strategic $2.5 Billion Move: What Does It Mean for the Crypto World? appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. In a pivotal financial maneuver, Tether has retracted $2.5 billion worth of USDT from the Ethereum network on July 7. This significant withdrawal represents the largest contraction in USDT supply since February, marking a noteworthy shift in stablecoin market dynamics. Continue Reading:Tether’s Strategic $2.5 Billion Move: What Does It Mean for the Crypto World? Source: https://en.bitcoinhaber.net/tethers-strategic-2-5-billion-move-what-does-it-mean-for-the-crypto-world

The post Ethereum holds Q3 gains as Tether burns $2.5B – Yet THIS catalyst remains appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. H2 is becoming a key period for network upgrades. Notably, Ethereum is right at the center of that. Its biggest upgrade since the Merge has entered the final testing phase. Known as Glamsterdam and targeted for H2 2026, the upgrade focuses on improving how Ethereum works at the protocol level. It introduces parallel transaction processing and gradually raises the gas limit from 60 million toward 200 million, changes designed to boost throughput. From an on-chain perspective, the timing couldn’t be better. Following Q2’s back-to-back DeFi exploits, which wiped more than $10 million from Ethereum’s TVL in immediate outflows, the network is still working to rebuild on-chain liquidity and user activity. As the chart below shows, Aave, Ethereum’s largest lending protocol, has seen its TVL drop to around $13 billion from nearly $35 billion in early Q1.  Source: DeFiLlama Ag

The post This App Wants Bitcoin Payments to Feel Like Sending a Text appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. DataReportal’s 2026 mid-year report found 93.6% of online adults use chat apps or messenger platforms each month. WhatsApp users open the app more than 20 times per day on Android and spend an average of 59 minutes per day inside the app. Payments have followed the same mobile pattern. The World Bank’s Global Findex 2025 found 79% of adults worldwide now have a financial account, while 84% of adults in low- and middle-income countries own a mobile phone, and 3 billion have smartphones. This creates a product opening for private chat-based payments. People already use messaging apps to coordinate dinner bills, creator support, gifts, small business payments, and peer-to-peer transfers, but the final payment often requires a separate wallet, app, address, invoice, or custodial account. Radar Chat, a new open-source messaging app from the team behind Cake Wallet, brings Bitcoin Lightn

The scrutiny over Farage's gift highlights growing concerns about crypto's influence in politics and the need for regulatory clarity. The post Bankers file suspicious activity report over Farage’s £5M gift from Tether billionaire appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

The post Bankers Filed Suspicious Activity Report Over Farage’s £5M Gift From Tether Billionaire appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. In brief Bankers reported a £5 million ($6.7 million) gift to Nigel Farage from crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne to the UK’s National Crime Agency, the Guardian has reported. They filed a suspicious activity report in May 2024, saying they could not trace where the money ultimately came from; such a report is not proof of wrongdoing. Reporting on the SAR comes amid a standards investigation into whether Farage should have declared the gift, which he says he was under no obligation to do. Nigel Farage’s £5 million gift from billionaire Tether investor Christopher Harborne was flagged to the UK’s National Crime Agency by bankers, the Guardian has reported. The bankers filed a suspicious activity report, or SAR, with the agency on May 16 2024, according to the Guardian, which noted they were not satisfied they could trace the ultimate origin of the f

Stablecoin usage is splitting: USDT dominates payments on Tron while USDC anchors DeFi liquidity on Ethereum L2s. Risks, routes, and playbooks.

The post Tether Burns 2.5 Billion USDT on Ethereum, Largest Supply Cut Since February appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. USDT News Tether removed 2.5 billion USDT from circulation on the Ethereum network on 7 July, on-chain data shows, the largest single-day burn of the dollar-pegged stablecoin since February. The move cut Tether’s total USDT supply to roughly 189.6 billion, most of it concentrated across Ethereum and TRON. Stablecoin issuers routinely destroy tokens when redeeming them for fiat, so a burn of this size is not, on its own, a directional market signal. Still, the scale stood out: it marked the sharpest contraction in USDT supply in nearly five months and immediately drew attention from traders tracking exchange liquidity and cross-chain flows. Unlike algorithmic stablecoins, USDT is backed by reserves, so burns reflect redemption activity. Separately, a leadership-linked ownership change surfaced at the company. Richard Heathcote, who stepped down as Tether’s chief inv