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Bo Hines

CEO of Tether U.S. (US arm), Tether

Search every verified Bo Hines interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Bo Hines, CEO of Tether U.S., spoke at two events in August and September 2026, discussing the company's role in the digital asset market and its partnerships. At the Avalanche Summit NYC on September 24, he announced that Tether would be the inaugural stablecoin for Ava Labs' V4 real-world asset hub on Avalanche, describing the collaboration as a way to bring real-world assets on-chain and provide liquidity for partners. He also highlighted Tether's scale, stating the company has around 600 million active monthly users and grows by about 34 million users per quarter. In an August 18 appearance at Accelerate USA, Hines reflected on his prior work in the Trump administration, including his role in helping pass the Genius Act, which he said addressed questions about making crypto technology efficient and accessible for institutions. He expressed skepticism about consortium stablecoin efforts, arguing they face challenges in establishing control and responsibility, and predicted that banks would seek interoperability between their own tokenized deposit systems rather than settling with each other's stablecoins. He also discussed Tether's broader investments in areas such as power sources in Africa, robotics, and peer-to-peer messaging, framing these as part of a vertical stack to serve users without access to traditional financial tools.

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“For banks and financial institutions I think what we bring is a recognizable product that other institutions will accept and that's why I don't believe in a lot of consortium stable efforts that are happening because it's really hard when you look in the back end on actually how to establish control who's responsible for what where does the yield turning mechanism go there there's a lot of things that play into this ”

“What we looked at was basically all the dreams that the technologists in the space have had for quite some time whether it be 24/7 markets tokenized securities all of that great stuff. And we said okay that's fantastic. We understand what we can do with this technology but how do we make it efficient? How do we make it usable? And how do we make it accessible for institutions in a safe and secure way? And I felt like”

“I don't expect that a name brand stablecoin becomes the settlement tool of choice for banks internally. What I do expect is that they're going to look for seamless interoperability between their own tokenized deposit systems and or their own stablecoin settlement systems to use between each other and try to buy exchanges. So, you know, you can think about it this way. If you're a big bank, why would you settle with a”

“Tether plays the most instrumental role in that. You think about Tether right now, we have around 600 million active monthly users of the product. We're growing at about 34 million users a quarter. It's quite frankly the most prolific business that exists today.”

“Our Treasury Secretary, Scott Besson, said that he expects the stable coin market to be over 1 trillion in the next few years. Um, I I certainly believe that's the case. I think could actually be exponentially higher as more public securities start to become tokenized. The on andoff ramp is going to be a dollar back stable. um and it acts as a firewall to the capital markets and in a tremendous way but I also think i”

“The ways in which we move money in the US and globally, moreover, have been archaic for quite some time, and I liken it, you know, to the ways in which technologies evolved in how we communicate. Uh, it's changed rapidly over the course of the last two decades. The ways in which we move money really haven't. And so, that's why what we're doing at Tether is is so exciting. You know, digital dollars with open corridors”

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