Tether CEO on Bitcoin, Stablecoin Adoption, & More | Paolo Ardoino #1583

The Pomp Podcast

Anthony Pompliano

Business, Investing

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Paolo Ardoino is the CEO of Tether. In this conversation we talk about bitcoin, the recent stablecoin regulation, Tether’s US strategy, macro environment, financial breakdown of how much money Tether makes, UDST vs domestic stablecoins, investments in AI, gold, the brain computer interface that Tether is funding, and what the future could look like.

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1:22.9	only. What's going on, guys? Today we've got an amazing episode with Paulo Ardano. He's the CEO of Tether. And in this conversation, we went through it all. We talk about the recent stable coin regulation, the U.S. strategy. Tethers come into America and he explains exactly what they're going to do. We go through the macro environment, the financial breakdown of how much money Tether made in the first half of the year. We talk about the difference between USDT and the domestic stable coin that they want to launch. And then we get into fun stuff like artificial intelligence and what Tether's doing on that front, including the investments they're making. We talk about gold and why that's such a big focus for them. And then we talk about the brain computer interface that Tether is funding because of what they think that
2:00.9	can mean for the future. This conversation goes very wide ranging and it helps us better
2:05.4	understand what Tethers doing, how much money they're making, and where that money is going.
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