Tether’s upcoming AI platform will support crypto payments, including Bitcoin and its own stablecoin, USDT, according to the company’s CEO Paolo Ardoino.
In his recent post on X, Tether’s CEO Paolo Ardoino shared a fresh update on the upcoming Tether AI platform, announcing that users will be able to transact using Bitcoin (BTC) and Tether (USDT) through the platform’s peer-to-peer network.
Crypto payments on Tether AI will be enabled through the company’s wallet development kit — a toolkit that allows developers to create mobile, desktop, and web wallets where users can hold USDT and BTC without relying on third-party custody.
The Tether AI platform was previously teased in December last year, when Ardoino revealed that a draft of the Tether AI website had been completed, with the launch targeted for the end of the first quarter of 2025.
“Tether AI has one key goal: to be the ideal technological foundation to achieve the vision of AI described in Asimov’s science fiction books. AI will, in the coming decades, become part of the very fabric of the universe. Our technology will be open source, transparent, scalable and able to adapt and evolve on any device regardless of hardware,” Ardoino wrote on X.
The move reflects Tether’s growing push into AI and follows earlier announcement that the company is developing a suite of AI apps, including AI Translate, AI Voice Assistant, and AI Bitcoin Wallet Assistant.
Apart from its AI efforts, Tether is currently preparing to launch a U.S.-based dollar-pegged stablecoin, which could roll out by the end of this year or earlier, according to Ardoino. Speaking at the Token2049 conference in Dubai, Ardoino said that the upcoming domestic stablecoin would be separate from the company’s existing international products, including USDT.
