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Tether Plans Self-Custodial Mobile Wallet With Local AI and Limited Asset Support

On 20 December 2025, Tether's CEO Paolo Ardoino said the company is building a new engineering team to develop a self-custodial consumer wallet focused on a narrow set of assets, including Bitcoin via Lightning, USDT, XAUT and USAT. The product is designed around payments, value storage and on-device AI through Tether's QVAC platform, marking a shift from pure stablecoin infrastructure toward a vertically integrated financial technology stack.