
Bringing USDT back home to Bitcoin @utexocom
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Holger Fischer retweeted
Our initial USDT on @Bitcoin launch will focus mainly on institutions
When moving large amounts, you don’t want others seeing your wallet activity and front-running you
We’re seeing huge demand for institutional minting, redemption and money movement. Retail launch will be announced later
Great work from the @utexocom team bringing USDt home to Bitcoin, as announced at The Future of Capital Markets.
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Utexo Mint is live.
Start onboarding for the public launch and test your integration with a bridged version of USD₮ on Bitcoin Signet.
Request access ↓
mint.utexo.com
Holger Fischer retweeted
Replying to @utexocom
@utexocom Opens USDT Minting Beta! UniSat Responds First!
Twelve years after it started on Bitcoin, USDT is coming home.
On November 28, 2026, Utexo will officially bring USDT back to Bitcoin's RGB layer. Ahead of mainnet launch, the public beta is now live. As an official partner of Utexo, UniSat jumped on it immediately — updating our Bitcoin Signet testnet support, including USDT (Signet) swaps.
Here's what happens next. In this homecoming, Utexo focuses on issuing and minting USDT, while UniSat makes it truly flow within the Bitcoin ecosystem. Once the mainnet officially goes live, we will deploy wallet support first, and then move at full speed to enable USDT trading on UniHexa.
But right now, the beta is almost here. UniSat's testnet support is expected within 48 hours (October 25, 2026), together with the exclusive Titles Claim Event. Users can connect their UniSat wallet to participate in minting testnet USDT. Stay tuned.
Utexo Mint is live.
Start onboarding for the public launch and test your integration with a bridged version of USD₮ on Bitcoin Signet.
Request access ↓
mint.utexo.com
Read the full announcement: utexo.com/blog/utexo-opens-e…
A first look at what's coming in November.
@Vihnatiuk took the stage at The Future of Capital Markets with a live demo of USDT minting and redemption on Bitcoin.
USDt is coming home to Bitcoin.
@Vihnatiuk (@utexocom) explains more at The Future of Capital Markets, including how exchanges, wallets, market makers and OTC desks can mint and redeem USDt on Bitcoin via @RGB_Bitcoin.
Holger Fischer retweeted
We've probably said "It's coming home" a thousand times this year.
Feels pretty damn good to finally put a date on it.
November 28.
Utexo has joined the @Mastercard Crypto Partner Program.
Stablecoins have become the connective tissue between onchain infrastructure and traditional financial networks.
Closer collaboration between the two is now more important than ever.
Holger Fischer retweeted
Replying to @LuganoPlanB
@LuganoPlanB has always been special to me, and this year I have one more reason to be excited about it.
After months of talking about bringing USDT back to Bitcoin, I finally get to demonstrate it live on stage.
Can't wait to be back in Lugano!
What could Bitcoin unlock with access to deeper stablecoin liquidity?
@VIhnatiuk, Co-Founder and CEO at @utexocom, joins The Future of Capital Markets to present: The Return of USDt to Bitcoin.
Lugano, 22 October.
Join us: thefutureofcapitalmarkets.co…
Holger Fischer retweeted
What could Bitcoin unlock with access to deeper stablecoin liquidity?
@VIhnatiuk, Co-Founder and CEO at @utexocom, joins The Future of Capital Markets to present: The Return of USDt to Bitcoin.
Lugano, 22 October.
Join us: thefutureofcapitalmarkets.co…
Our team is attending @LuganoPlanB.
On the agenda:
→ “The Return of USDT on Bitcoin”
@VIhnatiuk's keynote at The Future of Capital Markets, hosted by @Blockstream Capital Partners & @BFXSecurities
→ Stablecoin Summit w/ @RGBAssociation
See you in Lugano!
Our backers at @gate_ventures sat down with our co-founder @VIhnatiuk for a closer look at the vision behind Utexo and how USDT can help make Bitcoin the settlement layer for global finance.
Check out the full episode below.
“We want Bitcoin to become the main USDT layer.” — Viktor Ihnatiuk, Co-Founder of UTEXO @VIhnatiuk @utexocom
Why Bitcoin? As Viktor explains, USDT was originally launched on Bitcoin, and the technology to bring it back is finally ready — with transfers in just 50–100 milliseconds, near-zero fees, and privacy without compromising compliance.
In this episode of the Gate Ventures Podcast, Viktor shares his vision for how RGB and the Lightning Network could transform Bitcoin into a fast, private settlement layer for USDT, along with his ambitious goal of bringing $10–20 billion in USDT TVL to Bitcoin within the next 12 months.
We also cover:
🔹 Private but compliant: Only the sender and receiver see the transaction, while bad actors can still be blacklisted
🔹 How private OTC trading on RGB could put an end to the “BlackRock is dumping” FUD
🔹 Instant cross-exchange arbitrage: UTEXO could serve as a programmable prime broker for HFT traders
🔹 Why AI agents will choose Bitcoin for payments, and how x402 is coming to Bitcoin
The full episode is now available on YouTube and Spotify!
🎬 YouTube: youtu.be/UJZhRIbGbl0?si=KxJS…
🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/196…
📝 Key Takeaways: gate.com/blog/bringing-usdt-…
Holger Fischer retweeted
We're working with @utexocom to bring USDT to Bitcoin and make it accessible within the Bitcoin ecosystem.
Here's our roadmap:
🔸 Stage 1: USDT Integration — UniSat Wallet & UniScan
🔸 Stage 2: Trading Bitcoin-native Assets with USDT — UniHexa
🔸 Stage 3: Beyond Trading — Exploring more Bitcoin applications and use cases with developers
Read more about our progress, the technical challenges, and what's next. 👇
Holger Fischer retweeted
Bitcoin maxis call me a useful shitcoiner
I’ve built companies and projects on @ethereum, @solana, @cosmos, @Polkadot and other shitcoin chains
But I genuinely believe Bitcoin with RGB and Lightning are better than Ethereum or Solana for crypto’s biggest use case: payments
To understand it better, you need to dive into Satoshi’s whitepaper, to understand why he called Bitcoin “peer-to-peer cash”, not “peer-to-peer money”, but “cash”, as well as how account-based chains are different from UTXO-based chains. @adam3us had a great X post recently about it btw
That’s why I went all in on Bitcoin, RGB & Lightning
Holger Fischer retweeted
Meet our speakers: Viktor Ihnatiuk!
@VIhnatiuk is Co-Founder of @utexocom, the infrastructure for USDT on @RGB_Bitcoin.
At the Stablecoin Summit, Viktor will talk about the distribution of stablecoins and how they can reach the users.
Join the event: luma.com/qlt7isbb
Holger Fischer retweeted
If every Bitcoin transaction is public, who can see an asset transfer in RGB? How is privacy preserved?
Our new article answers the above questions by following one stablecoin transfer through the eyes of four different observers!
Check it out in our blog:
Holger Fischer retweeted
500 words of panic slop just to tell us not to reuse Bitcoin addresses? This has been a well-known best practice since like forever
Today I call upon the blockchain industry to calmly begin planning for "bunker mode". My personal recommendation is to set in motion a controlled mass migration of assets to fresh addresses, i.e. addresses whose pubkeys remain hidden behind a hash.
Holders, starting with large and sophisticated ones, should consider moving the bulk of their funds to addresses that have never signed a transaction. And when they do sign one, they should also move remaining funds to a new address (possibly generated from the same seed phrase).
Don't rush. While I believe there is cause for action a rushed migration would do more harm than good. Don't panic either. Moving assets to protected addresses is a simple, preventative step which does not require new cryptography or new wallets.
IMO it is now reasonable to brace for the possibility that ECDSA breaks before qday, in the worst case in months not years. By "break" I mean fast private key recovery (e.g. in one week) on available hardware (e.g. a large GPU cluster).
Recent days have been humbling for human mathematical intuition. Long-held, unquestioned hypotheses have fallen. This includes the n log(n) bound for integer multiplication and the 3SUM conjecture. In hindsight, May's unexpected disproof of the Erdős unit distance conjecture was our warning shot.
Yesterday's OpenAI drop made it clear that mathematical superintelligence is upon us. They say there are weeks where decades happen. We are about to live through weeks where centuries of mathematical progress happen. Could our magic 64-byte ECDSA signatures be too good to be true? Was it just security through obscurity all this time?
Elliptic curves feel especially vulnerable to superintelligence. Curves carry rich structure, with room for fancy tricks like Schoof, Frobenius, pairings. (By contrast, hashes are designed to minimise algebraic structure.)
Separately, as Ewin Tang can attest, an efficient quantum algorithm sometimes foreshadows an efficient classical one. We should be open to the possibility of a classical counterpart to Shor that breaks elliptic curves and RSA at once.
Also noteworthy is the striking under-representation of cryptographic breakthroughs among the 722 mathematical results OpenAI published. I've witnessed first-hand the US government censoring academic quantum cryptanalysis results. Backroom interventionism is my base case.
I urge large, sophisticated actors to lead by example. Project11's "risq list" (bitcoin-risq-list.projecteleven[.]com) is a great tracker of exposed BTC pubkeys. Binance, Bitbank, Robinhood, Bitfinex, and Tether have an opportunity to harden their cold storage. Next month I'll address institutions in London in a live Q&A (forum.ethereuminstitutional[.]org/london-2026).
Again, please do not rush. Wallets holding under 50 BTC enjoy partial cover from "Satoshi's shield", i.e. his 20K exposed addresses that hold 50 BTC each. Load-bearing signers like oracles and L2 security councils should consider rotating ECDSA pubkeys with every signed message and/or multi-signing with a hash-based schemes like SPHINCS.
Exiting bunker mode safely will require post-AI cryptography. My inclination is to go all-in on hash-based cryptography and avoid structured mathematical assumptions entirely, whether from curves, lattices, or isogenies. A single battle-tested hash (e.g. from the SHA or BLAKE families) yields plausible post-AI security.
The Ethereum roadmap on strawmap[.]org fully embraces hash-based cryptography with end-to-end formal verification as a response to the quantum threat. Those timelines must now be revisited and accelerated in light of mathematical superintelligence. I'll be pushing for maximum defensive acceleration.
12 years later, USD₮ is returning to where its journey began: Bitcoin.
Happy birthday, @tether!


















