Tether CEO: The core value of USDT is a rigid demand tool for the global 3 billion to combat currency instability

On October 1, 2025, at the Token 2049 event, Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino pointed out in his speech that the core value of USDT is that it has become a rigid demand tool for emerging markets to deal with currency instability.
According to him, 3 billion people in the world are "unbanked" or have high inflation in their countries (such as Turkey's currency depreciation of 80% against the US dollar in the past five years and Argentina's depreciation of more than 95% in the past 10 years), traditional fiat currencies cannot guarantee household savings, and black market cash dollars pose security risks (especially after the 2020 epidemic).
As a "digital dollar alternative", USDT not only helps families resist inflation, protect their children's basic needs such as education and food expenses, but also penetrates rapidly with the characteristics of "high proportion of young population and high degree of digitalization" in emerging markets. It emphasizes that this value is not a simple attribute of cryptocurrency products, but the social significance of USDT as an "inclusive financial tool". It is also the underlying logic of its user scale adding 30 million wallet users every quarter and its market value reaching 174 billion US dollars.