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Pornhub drops USDT for USDC
Pornhub is no longer accepting USDT for payouts and is switching to Circle-issued stablecoin USDC instead.
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— Stablecoins, USDC
Pornhub is no longer accepting USDT for payouts and is switching to Circle-issued stablecoin USDC instead.
Read more (2 min) →S&P Global Ratings has lowered Tether's rating to its lowest possible level in its most recent Stablecoin Stability Assessment.
Tether will terminate redemptions and freeze most USDT tokens using the Bitcoin ledger on September 1 as it terminates Omni support.
Tether, the world's largest stablecoin company, has continued to grow its secured loans business even after promising to eliminate it.
— DeFi, Stablecoins
By looping Binance Chain-based USD1 on Euler Finance against USDT, yield farmers have earned 99% APR on the presidential stablecoin.
Circle's USDC has made substantial gains in 2025 across several metrics against its main stablecoin competitor, Tether's USDT.
Circle and Tether, the two largest stablecoins, have adopted different tactics when it comes to the management of their reserves.
Circle has filed to go public and admits that it is 98% less profitable than Tether despite sharing a similar business model.
A few weeks after US Secret Service and FBI agents began surveilling USDT wallets, Tether announced “voluntary” sanctions compliance.