{"id":989899,"date":"2026-02-05T08:12:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T02:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989899"},"modified":"2026-02-05T08:39:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T03:09:20","slug":"tether-retreats-from-20-billon-funding-ambitions-after-investor-pushback-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/05\/tether-retreats-from-20-billon-funding-ambitions-after-investor-pushback-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Tether retreats from $20 billon funding ambitions after investor pushback: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crypto group Tether \u200dChief Executive Paolo Ardoino has downplayed the amount of money it \u2060will raise in a new funding round following investor pushback over its $500-billion valuation goal, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Tether&#8217;s advisers have floated raising \u200cas little \u200cas $5 billion after facing investor reluctance, the report said, citing people familiar with the \u200cmatter, following talks of a $15 billion to $20 billion fundraise last year.<\/p>\n<p>El Salvador-based Tether is the issuer of the world&#8217;s most widely used USDT stablecoin, a digital dollar with $187 billion worth of tokens in circulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crypto group Tether \u200dChief Executive Paolo Ardoino has downplayed the amount of money it \u2060will raise in a new funding round following investor pushback over its $500-billion valuation goal, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. Tether&#8217;s advisers have floated raising \u200cas little \u200cas $5 billion after facing investor reluctance, the report said, citing people familiar with the \u200cmatter, following talks of a $15 billion to $20 billion fundraise last year. El Salvador-based Tether is the issuer of the world&#8217;s most widely used USDT stablecoin, a digital dollar with $187 billion worth of tokens in circulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}