Tether is preparing its next push beyond stablecoins. On Friday, CEO Paolo Ardoino revealed plans for a mobile crypto wallet built around Bitcoin, USDT, and on-device artificial intelligence, signaling a tighter focus on privacy, control, and non-custodial design.
According to Ardoino, the wallet will support only a small set of assets: Bitcoin (including Lightning Network), USDT, USAT, and gold-backed XAUT.
The limited scope is intentional. Rather than chasing multi-chain sprawl, Tether appears to be betting on simplicity, liquidity, and assets it already dominates.
The wallet will run on Tether’s open-source Wallet Development Kit (WDK) and its decentralized AI stack, QVAC. The message is blunt: no cloud babysitters, no third-party custody, just assets managed locally, on the user’s device, under the user’s rules.
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