Breaking: Tether Buys Another $70M in Bitcoin, BTC Holdings Hit $7.2B
By Felix van Dijk
Tether is back in focus after a fresh report tied the USDT issuer to another roughly seventy-million-dollar Bitcoin move and lifted wallet estimates to about seven-point-two billion dollars.
Tether Adds Another $70M to Its Bitcoin Position
In an April 15, 2026 report, Phemex News said Tether withdrew 951 BTC worth about US$70.47 million from Bitfinex into a reserve wallet, but this remains a single-source report because no public transaction hash was provided in the fetched evidence.
The same report said Tether’s reserve address held 97,141 BTC, valued near US$7.2 billion, so the headline total should be read as a wallet-balance estimate rather than a newly audited balance-sheet line.
Tether said on May 17, 2023 that it would regularly allocate up to 15% of realized net operating profits to Bitcoin purchases, which is the policy framework behind recurring treasury additions.
BTC Holdings Climb to $7.2B After the Latest Buy
In Tether’s Q4 2025 market report, total reserves included 96,184 bitcoin, up by 9,850 bitcoin in the quarter.
Tether’s audited March 31, 2025 reserves report valued the bitcoin reserve category at US$7,662,210,442 using a bitcoin reference price of US$82,704.
The same audited filing listed total reserves of US$149,274,515,988 against liabilities of US$143,682,673,588, with excess reserves at US$5,591,842,400.
Why Tether’s Bitcoin Accumulation Is Back in Focus
The audited reserve report also said Tether International relocated to El Salvador in January 2025 and is authorized there as a stablecoin issuer and digital assets service provider under the country’s digital asset law.
That regulatory backdrop matters because a treasury that was reported at 96,184 BTC in official quarter-end disclosures is now being discussed at 97,141 BTC in a single secondary report, while the latest audited cushion still sits at US$5,591,842,400.
Bitcoin treasury tracking has stayed active across the market, from sovereign flows in Bhutan Govt. Moves $18M in Bitcoin Amid BTC Sell-Off Spree to stablecoin distribution developments in SocGen Dollar Stablecoin Now Live on MetaMask.
Regulatory positioning is also drawing attention after LegalBison on MiCA: 174 CASPs, 14 Approved for CEX, which helps explain why the market is parsing each new update on Tether’s Bitcoin reserves so closely.
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