Tether Introduces Self-Custodial Wallet To Expand Direct Access to Digital Assets
Tether launched tether.wallet, a self-custodial app for Bitcoin, stablecoins, and gold with gasless transfers and full user control.
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Tether has announced the launch of tether.wallet, a self-custodial digital wallet designed to provide users with direct access to its financial infrastructure, marking a shift from its traditional role as a backend provider of liquidity and settlement services.
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The company, best known as the issuer of USD₮, stated that the new wallet is intended to simplify the use of digital assets while maintaining user control over funds.
The application supports a limited set of assets, including Bitcoin, tokenized U.S. dollars such as USD₮ and USA₮, and tokenized gold (XAU₮), with availability across multiple blockchain networks.
According to Tether, the wallet removes several technical barriers commonly associated with digital asset usage.
Users can send funds using human-readable identifiers, such as name@tether.me, rather than long wallet addresses.
In addition, transactions can be completed without holding separate tokens for network fees, as costs are deducted directly from the transferred asset.
The wallet is fully self-custodial, meaning private keys remain under the user’s control and transactions are signed locally on their device.
Tether said this approach aligns with its broader objective of maintaining open and user-controlled financial systems.
Paolo Ardoino, CEO of Tether, described the launch as an extension of the company’s longstanding focus on financial access.
“Tether has achieved, without any doubts, the widest financial inclusion success story in the history of humanity,” he said.
“With more than 570 million people already using Tether’s technology, the next step is making that digital infrastructure even more accessible and usable by the end users.”
He added that the goal is to simplify digital asset interactions while preserving core properties such as self-custody and independence from intermediaries.
“Users should be able to send value as easily as sending a message, without relying on intermediaries and without giving up control of their assets,” Ardoino said.
Tether reported that, as of March 2026, its technology is used by more than 570 million people globally, with adoption continuing to grow across both emerging and developed markets.
The wallet is built on Tether’s open-source Wallet Development Kit (WDK), which the company says is designed to support a wide range of use cases, including applications involving machines and AI agents.
The infrastructure aims to enable scalable, peer-to-peer transactions without reliance on centralized intermediaries.
At launch, tether.wallet supports USD₮ and XAU₮ across networks including Ethereum, Polygon, Plasma, and Arbitrum, while USA₮ is currently available on Ethereum.
Bitcoin is supported both on-chain and through the Lightning Network. Tether indicated that additional blockchain integrations are expected in future updates.
The release represents a move toward offering end-user products, extending Tether’s existing role in the digital asset ecosystem into a direct consumer-facing application.