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Tether (often referred to by its currency codes, USD₮ and USDT, among others) is a cryptocurrency stablecoin launched by Tether Limited Inc. in 2014. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It is pegged to the United States dollar , and is distinct from a central bank digital currency (CBDC).
Coinbase Global, Inc. is an American technology company. [4] Founded in 2012 by Brian Armstrong, [1] it operates the largest U.S. based cryptocurrency exchange. [5] As of 2024, Coinbase has 108 million users and is the world's biggest bitcoin custodian, holding 12% of the total supply and managing over US$400 billion in digital assets.
USDC operates as an Ethereum ERC-20 token and is also available on several other blockchain platforms such as Base and Polygon. [3] [4] Visa initiated a pilot program to send USDC via the Solana blockchain to payment firms Worldpay and Nuvei, who could then transfer payment to merchants.
A cryptocurrency, crypto-currency, or colloquially, crypto, is a digital currency designed to work through a computer network that is not reliant on any central authority, such as a government or bank, to uphold or maintain it.
[4] [5] Customers buy or sell digital currency from digital currency exchanges, who transfer the digital currency into or out of the customer's DCP account. [5] Some exchanges are subsidiaries of DCP, but many are legally independent businesses. [4] The denomination of funds kept in DCP accounts may be of a real or fictitious currency. [5]
Binance Holdings Ltd., branded Binance, is a global [8] company that operates the largest cryptocurrency exchange in terms of daily trading volume of cryptocurrencies. Binance was founded in 2017 by Changpeng Zhao , a developer who had previously created high-frequency trading software.
The open-source project was originally called "Ripple", the unique consensus ledger was called the Ripple Consensus Ledger, the transaction protocol was called the Ripple Transaction Protocol or RTXP and the digital asset (known as "ripples") using XRP as the three-letter currency code to follow the naming convention of BTC for Bitcoin.
BitPay was founded in 2011 to provide mobile checkout services to companies that wanted to accept bitcoins. By October 2012, BitPay had grown to having 1,100 active merchants, [7] including being WordPress's bitcoin merchant.