14 April 2026 – Tether, the largest company in the digital asset ecosystem and issuer of USD₮, the world’s most widely used stablecoin, today announced the launch of tether.wallet, a self-custodial digital wallet that brings Tether’s global financial infrastructure directly into the hands of its users.
For more than a decade, Tether has built its company on a simple mission: bringing financial inclusion to the billions of people, primarily living in developing countries, who were left behind by the traditional financial system, those who never had access to basic financial services, and those who live in high-inflation countries. This number is higher than most think, almost half of the population of the world. As of March 2026, Tether’s technology is used by more than 570 million people globally, with adoption continuing to accelerate across emerging and developed markets alike, at the pace of tens of millions of new wallets added per quarter.
Yet, until today, Tether has operated purely as the underlying layer of the digital asset economy, enabling liquidity, settlement, and payments across more than 160 countries. USD₮ has become the most widely used digital representation of the U.S. dollar, serving entire markets, individuals, and businesses globally. With tether.wallet, that entire infrastructure, the widest and most granular money distribution network built by humanity, becomes directly accessible to end users for the first time. This launch represents another continuation of Tether’s role in building open financial systems, now extended into a product designed for everyday use.
tether.wallet offers the only assets that truly matter for most of the people: digital dollars via USD₮ and USA₮, gold via XAU₮, and Bitcoin. These currencies are supported across multiple networks, and the wallet is designed to remove the technical complexity that has historically limited broader adoption of digital assets. Users can send funds using a simple, human-readable identifier such as [email protected], eliminating the need to interact with long, error-prone wallet addresses and reducing the risk of irreversible errors. Transactions can be completed without requiring users to hold separate network or gas tokens, with fees paid directly in the asset being transferred, removing one of the most persistent sources of friction in blockchain-based systems.
The application is fully self-custodial by design. All transactions are signed locally on the user’s device before being broadcast to the network, and private keys and recovery phrases are always in sole control of the user. This reflects a core principle that has guided the company since its inception: that financial systems should be open, neutral, accessible, and in control of the user.
“Tether has achieved, without any doubts, the widest financial inclusion success story in the history of humanity,” said Paolo Ardoino, CEO of Tether. “With more than 570 million people already using Tether’s technology, the next step is making that digital infrastructure even more accessible and usable by the end users. The objective is to remove the complexity that has prevented broader adoption while preserving the properties that make the digital assets technology valuable. Users should be able to send value as easily as sending a message, without relying on intermediaries and without giving up control of their assets. tether.wallet is “the People’s Wallet” because it truly reflects the natural evolution of Tether’s role, from building the foundation of the digital asset economy to making it directly usable by anyone, ready for a future in which tens of billions of humans, machines, and trillions of AI agents will transact seamlessly at the speed of light.”
tether.wallet is built on top of the open-source WDK, Wallet Development Kit by Tether, a truly foundational piece of technology that allows any humans, machines, and AI agents to build, use, and control self-custodial digital asset wallets. WDK by Tether is designed to enable a future where tens of billions of humans, machines, and trillions of AI agents will transact with each other at the speed of light.
At launch, tether.wallet supports USD₮ on Ethereum, Polygon, Plasma, and Arbitrum; XAU₮ on Ethereum, Polygon, Plasma, and Arbitrum; USA₮ on Ethereum; and Bitcoin both on-chain and via the Lightning Network. After this initial release, several other blockchains will be added to the Wallet. The application automatically surfaces available networks and balances, abstracting underlying infrastructure from the user experience.
For more information on tether.wallet, go to https://wallet.tether.io/
