$USDT is being delisted from exchanges in the EU, how bad is it really?

▶️ #thoughts

💲Every bull run has three common traits: rapid growth of various tokens, a crypto ban in China, and FUD/issues surrounding Tether.

• This happened in 2017, 2021, and is happening again this time.

▫️$USDT will be excluded from

exchanges in the EU as it

does not comply with the new EU rules - MiCA. More about MiCA - here.

▫️There is a lot of misinformation circulating that USDT is considered illegal in the EU, so let’s clarify this first:

• First of all, holding $USDT in the EU will not be considered illegal. You can hold $USDT in non-custodial wallets and use them for trading on DEX;

• The limitation is that you cannot use $USDT for trading on exchanges compliant with MiCA.

🐻What about the trading volume of $USDT and its peg to the dollar?

▫️$USDT is the largest stablecoin with a market cap of $138.5 billion and a daily trading volume of ~$45 billion;

▫️As of today, 80% of the trading volume of $USDT comes from Asia, so the delisting in the EU will not have a significant impact;

• This is also evident in the change in the market cap of $USDT amid the delisting, which has only decreased by 1.2%, despite the fact that this news is circulating all around crypto Twitter and beyond.

❤️However, one should not forget about diversification even in stablecoins, so it definitely wouldn’t be a mistake to hold at least a portion in $USDC.

👍As we can see, globally, nothing serious has happened, and most likely, Tether will find a workaround to this decision and Tether will be back on all crypto exchanges (but possibly under a different ticker).

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