Tether CEO says company now holds about 150,000 Bitcoin

Paolo Ardoino put the stablecoin issuer's Bitcoin stash at more than $11.5 billion, a sharp climb from earlier 2026 disclosures Tether, the company behind the world’s most widely used stablecoin, now owns about 150,000 Bitcoin. CEO Paolo Ardoino says the stack is worth more than $11.5 billion. The disclosure came during his keynote at the Plan ₿ Forum in Lugano on November 3, 2026. It marks a steep jump from the figures Tether reported only months earlier, and it pushes the company further into territory usually occupied by corporate treasuries built entirely around Bitcoin. From 100,000 to 150,000 in one year Earlier in 2026, Tether’s disclosures put its Bitcoin holdings somewhere between 96,000 and 100,000 BTC. Getting to roughly 150,000 means adding tens of thousands of coins in a single calendar year. The dollar figures tell a similar story. Tether’s Q3 attestation valued its Bitcoin reserves at $8.37 billion as of September 30, up from an estimated $5.8 billion at the end of Q2 2026. Tether has been buying since May 2023, when it adopted a policy of directing up to 15% of its quarterly net profits into Bitcoin. Some of those purchases have been large enough to stand out on the...