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Tether (USDT) Launches On The NEAR Network

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Tether, the team behind the USDT stablecoin, announced via a blog post on Monday that its USDT is now available on the Near network.

Tether (USDT) Launches On The NEAR Network

Tether, the team behind the USDT stablecoin, announced via a blog post on Monday that its USDT is now available on the Near network. According to the Tether team, this announcement further solidifies Tether's position as the most widely adopted stablecoin, having pioneered the concept in the digital token space. The stablecoin is now live on Algorand, Avalanche, Bitcoin Cash’s Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP), Ethereum, EOS, Kusama, Liquid Network, Omni, Polygon, Tezos, Tron, Solana and Statemine, the team added. 

NEAR Protocol is a decentralized application platform designed to make apps similarly usable to those on today’s web. The network runs on a Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus mechanism called Nightshade, which aims to provide dynamic scalability and stabilize fees. NEAR is trading at $4.986, up by 4.5% in the last 24 hours.

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Hassan Maishera

Hassan is a Nigeria-based financial content creator that has invested in many different blockchain projects, including Bitcoin, Ether, Stellar Lumens, Cardano, VeChain and Solana. He currently works as a financial markets and cryptocurrency writer and has contributed to a large number of the leading FX, stock and cryptocurrency blogs in the world.