Author: KarenZ, Foresight News
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino revealed on July 23 that "its investment portfolio covers over 120 companies, with the number expected to grow significantly in the coming months or years. These investments are derived entirely from Tether's own profits (137 billion USD in 2024), completely isolated from USDT (and other stablecoin) reserves, and fall under the Tether Investments division."
Tether Investments is a company established under El Salvador's law, focusing on strategic investments across various areas intersecting technology, infrastructure, and practical utility. Its portfolio covers artificial intelligence, financial services, energy, biotechnology, education, and digital media, holding strategic equity in commodities, remittances, sports, and entertainment industries, extending beyond stablecoins.
In its Q1 2025 report, Tether noted that through Tether Investments, it has invested over 2 billion USD in long-term projects in renewable energy, artificial intelligence, peer-to-peer communication, and data infrastructure, committed to building a sustainable digital economy.
Tether has five major sections on its official website: Finance, Power, Data, Edu, and Evo. From these sections, Tether's strategic focus is evident.
- Tether Finance is dedicated to promoting financial inclusivity, enhancing global financial accessibility in regions with inadequate or missing banking infrastructure. This is specifically reflected in stablecoins, Tether wallet development kits, asset tokenization, TradeFi, and investments.
- Tether Power focuses on the integration of renewable energy and Bitcoin mining;
- Tether Data develops AI and P2P technologies. Tether's support for projects like Holepunch and Pears.com highlights its support for peer-to-peer technology, and its investment in Northern Data will support AI research and projects.
- Tether Edu is committed to expanding access to educational tools and resources. Tether's investment in the Academy of Digital Industries in Georgia and support for PlanB.Network are breaking educational barriers and driving the gig economy.
- Tether Evo is dedicated to empowering humans for their inevitable future evolution. Blackrock Neurotech, invested by Tether, is leading neurotechnology development, creating brain-machine interfaces, and opening new fields of communication, rehabilitation, and cognitive enhancement.
This article will summarize and introduce the 25 portfolio investments disclosed by Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino.
Source: Tether Official Website
Digital Finance (Payment / Exchange / Wallet / Stablecoin, etc.)
[The rest of the translation follows the same approach, maintaining the original structure and translating all text while preserving technical terms and names]In June 2024, Tether announced an investment of $18.75 million in XREX Group. XREX Group plans to use the new funds to further promote cross-border payments with USDT in emerging markets and intends to collaborate with Tether in developing regulatory technology tools to detect and prevent illegal stablecoin usage. Subsequently, XREX partnered with the Unitas Foundation to launch XAU1, a USD-pegged stablecoin backed by over-reserves of Tether Gold (XAUt), providing customers with a stable alternative and inflation hedging tool.
Zengo
Zengo is a crypto wallet provider using institutional-grade MPC (Multi-Party Computation) solutions. In February 2025, Tether announced a strategic investment in Zengo Wallet, which will enable Zengo to further enhance its cross-blockchain platform capabilities, seamlessly supporting Tether stablecoins. This investment will also support the development of Zengo Pro, an advanced product designed to improve user experience through anti-theft protection, legacy transfer functions, and real-time assistance.
Education / Media
Tether states, "Tether is committed to creating a world where education knows no boundaries, knowledge is within reach, breaking barriers in the education sector, and providing courses that equip users to confidently navigate challenges in the digital age and seize opportunities."
Academy of Digital Industries
Academy of Digital Industries is a Georgian digital industries academy. Some courses listed on their website include cybersecurity courses, crypto fundamentals, AI practical courses, graphic design, interior design, social media, programming, search engine optimization, with most being paid courses.
Be Water
Be Water is an Italian media company with podcast production companies Chora Media, Will Media, and film production and distribution company Be Water Film. In March 2025, Be Water acquired a 30.4% stake (€10 million). The two will collaborate to enhance digital content distribution and integrate new technological solutions. Be Water will also develop a comprehensive technological infrastructure, utilizing blockchain and digital tools to distribute high-quality independent content globally.
PlanB.Network
While not listed in Tether's investment portfolio, the company mentions supporting PlanB.Network in its education section. PlanB.Network focuses on Bitcoin education, providing tutorials on Bitcoin wallets, nodes, mining, exchanges, privacy, and computer security.
Mining / High-Performance Computing / Data / AI / Neurotechnology
Adecoagro
Adecoagro is a South American company producing food and renewable energy through sustainable production. In September 2024, Tether previously invested $100 million to acquire a 9.8% stake in Adecoagro, committed to supporting and expanding sustainable Real World Assets (RWA) production. In April 2025, Tether Investments acquired a 70% controlling stake in Adecoagro. The two will collaborate on a renewable energy Bitcoin mining project in Brazil. Adecoagro currently operates 230 MW of renewable energy generation facilities in South America, and the project will explore the feasibility of using surplus electricity for Bitcoin mining.
Bitdeer
Bitdeer is a Bitcoin mining and high-performance computing service provider and operator. In May 2024, Bitdeer signed a subscription agreement to receive $150 million in private financing from Tether, supporting Bitdeer's data center expansion and ASIC mining machine R&D. In March 2025, Tether increased its stake in Bitdeer. Tether and its subsidiaries Tether International, SA de CV and Tether Investments, SA de CV currently hold 31,891,689 Class A common shares, representing 21.4% of the company's issued shares.
Blackrock Neurotech
Blackrock Neurotech was founded in 2008 at Utah University by scientists and BCI (Brain-Computer Interface) pioneers Florian Solzbacher and Marcus Gerhardt, quickly becoming a technology leader in neuroscience, neural engineering, and neural rehabilitation. Through Blackrock Neurotech's innovative BCI technology, patients can operate mechanical arms, manipulate wheelchairs, send messages, browse the internet, and even drive cars. Blackrock Neurotech's devices have proven capable of thought-to-text communication, typing at speeds up to 90 characters per minute and direct speech encoding at up to 62 words per minute.
In late April 2024, Tether announced an investment of $200 million in Blackrock Neurotech. The investment was made through Tether's newly established venture capital division, Tether Evo, to help Blackrock Neurotech fund the commercialization and promotion of its medical solutions and support its R&D work.
Holepunch
Holepunch is a platform for creating applications without any servers, supported by Tether and Hypercore (a company developing peer-to-peer, scalable, and cryptographically reliable distributed systems), with its first product being the fully encrypted video calling app Keet. Holepunch provides a series of small JavaScript modules that can be combined to create various P2P applications (such as communication tools from VPN to Keet). Holepunch's Pear is a compositional peer-to-peer Runtime, development, and deployment tool.
Tether and Bitfinex are providing funding for Holepunch. Paolo Ardoino previously disclosed AI application previews being developed by Tether Data, including AI translation, AI voice assistant, and AI Bitcoin wallet assistant. Tether plans to launch an open-source AI SDK platform based on Holepunch's JavaScript runtime Bare, suitable for embedded devices, various mobile phones, laptops, and server clusters. Tether Data's AI applications will focus on local operation, emphasizing privacy protection, and supporting self-hosted data and funds.
Northern Data Group
Northern Data Group is an AI and high-performance computing service provider with businesses including AI Cloud (Taiga Cloud) and Ardent data centers. The group's full-year 2025 expected revenue is between €240 million and €320 million, with adjusted EBITDA estimated between €80 million and €130 million.
In September 2023, Tether announced a strategic investment in Northern Data Group through its subsidiary Damoon. In November 2023, Northern Data received a debt financing facility of €575 million from Tether. In November 2024, Northern Data Group raised €214 million through a new share issuance (with Tether Investments subscribing to part of the new shares) to further invest in NVIDIA GPUs to accelerate the growth of Northern Data Group's cloud platform and expand the company's physical data center footprint in Europe and the United States.
Others
Crystal Intelligence
Crystal Intelligence is a blockchain analysis company for crypto crime investigation, compliance, and risk management. In July 2025, Tether made a strategic investment in Crystal Intelligence. Both companies supported the development of Scam Alert (scam-alert.io), which can real-time mark wallet addresses associated with fraud and abuse activities.
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino stated: "Tether firmly supports law enforcement in combating illegal activities. With the latest advanced intelligence tools being developed by companies like Crystal Intelligence, Tether is enhancing its ability to assist law enforcement in real-time tracking of fund flows. Tether has helped freeze billions of dollars in illegal funds and supported investigations in dozens of jurisdictions. Abuse USDT, and law enforcement will find you."
Elemental Altus Royalties
Elemental Altus Royalties is a Canadian-listed gold royalty company providing investors with higher gold investment exposure while reducing risk and having strong growth potential. In June 2025, Tether Investments acquired a 37.8% stake in Elemental Altus Royalties and has the right to acquire 51.8% of the issued and outstanding common shares.
Paolo Ardoino previously stated: "Tether's continuous investment in gold and Bitcoin reflects the company's forward-looking strategy to build a more resilient and transparent financial system. Just as Bitcoin provides the ultimate decentralized hedge against monetary inflation, gold remains a time-tested store of value. By obtaining a diversified gold royalty investment portfolio through Elemental Altus Royalties, Tether is strengthening support for its ecosystem while advancing the development of Tether Gold and future commodity-backed digital assets."
Rumble
Rumble is a video sharing platform that completed a $775 million strategic investment from Tether in the first quarter of 2025. Rumble will also launch a crypto wallet called Rumble Wallet that supports USDT.
Rumble launched a Bitcoin financial strategy in November 2024 and spent $17.1 million to purchase 188 BTC in March 2025, with an average purchase price of $91,000 per Bitcoin.
Juventus Football Club
Juventus Football Club, founded in 1897, is one of the oldest clubs in Italy. Tether Investments acquired a minority stake in the club in February 2025 and increased its stake to 10.12% in April, representing 6.18% of voting rights, with the aim of integrating its digital assets, payment solutions, and AI and biotechnology expertise into the sports industry.
