👀 Tether is buying the dip

Tether stacks $1B in BTC, funding markets creak, XRP traders rotate into leverage, smart wallets quietly add 214K BTC, and “dead” token ICP rips 50% on the back of the AI narrative.

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Cryptopolitan News
November 07, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 8 minutes

Tether buys the dip. $1B Bitcoin move makes It the 6th-biggest holder

The USDT printer transferred nearly $1 billion in Bitcoin out of Bitfinex hot wallets and into its treasury wallets this past week, bringing the money supply to a total of 87,296 BTC or approximately $8.9 billion at time of writing.

That makes Tether, behind Block, the second-largest holder of Bitcoin among private entities and the sixth largest in the world. one.

🧩 Quick Explainer: Why Tether Buys Bitcoin

Since 2023, Tether has been allocating 15% of its quarterly profits into BTC — a self-funded reserve diversification strategy.
Here’s the rationale:
→ Inflation hedge: Bitcoin provides a non-sovereign store of value alongside T-bills and gold.
→ Transparency play: BTC on-chain is verifiable by anyone.
→ Long-term conviction: BTC acts as collateral for USDT’s credibility.

Normally, Tether makes these transfers at quarter-end, but this mid-quarter buy signals a bold message: they’re buying the dip.

How big Is Tether’s stack?

Entity

BTC Holdings

Value (Approx.)

Share of Supply

ETFs (Combined)

1,534,219

$156B

7%

MicroStrategy

641,205

$65.3B

3.05%

Block.one

140,000

$14.3B

0.66%

Tether

87,296

$8.9B

0.42%

Market Context

Bitcoin dipped below $100,000 and remained beneath that level for only 14 hours this week on ETF outflows and macro volatility. It’s up 3% since then, trading at around $102,065, and Tether’s buy-in has brought new optimism.

📊 Market Watch

1️⃣ Money-Market strain could force Fed’s hand

Wall Street desks are on high alert once more, as renewed stress in U.S. funding markets has taken a toll just two weeks after an improvement. The tri-party repo rate briefly surged to 2020-era highs last week before coming back down again, but now analysts say it’s not over.

“We’re not in that ample-reserves situation anymore,” Deirdre Dunn of Citigroup said.

  • Some strategists anticipate the Fed will return to asset purchases if liquidity becomes tight again.

  • The Fed injected $50 billion on Oct. 31 into markets to ease strains, its biggest action since the pandemic of 2020.

  • There’s a fresh credit-crunch story quietly brewing as global Treasury issuance sucks up liquditiy.

TL;DR: The plumbing is creaking, and if repo rates flare up again, the Fed may have to step back in sooner than it wants.

2️⃣ Risk rotation hit Binance this week as traders cut BTC and ETH longs and amped up XRP bets.

  • XRP futures volume reached $8.4 B, while spot was only at $1.7 B.

  • Open interest hovers around $3.4 B, signifying that capital remains in the derivatives arena.

  • Support is at $2.10–$2.25; the bulls need to breakthrough to reverse trend.

“Traders are buying micro-dips on XRP while BTC and ETH are risk-off,” CryptoQuant writes in a report. Elsewhere, BTC OI fell by $59.8M following a $957M flush from the previous day that confirmed further risk reduction across the majors.

TL;DR: Fear sucked up Bitcoin & Ether leverage, but XRP traders are still flexing.

3️⃣ Wallets accumulating BTC reach ATH

The ‘accumulators’, or wallets with 2+ inflows but no outflows have in the past month bought an additional amount of BTC adding up to 214,069 BTC and now hold a total of 387,305 BTC representing a month on month uptick of 411%.

  • Average buy price: ≈ $64K per BTC

  • Daily inflow (Nov 5): 30,913 BTC

  • Institutional wallets continue to stack through the dip

TL;DR: The smart money is still stacking and they’re doing so at an increasingly breakneck pace.

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ICP: Back from the dead

After months of quiet, the token for Internet Computer (ICP) surged back to $8.60, it’s highest in three months, gaining 51% from an October low of $2.92.

It comes as traders crowd into AI-related assets, which in turn has propelled the market cap for the AI token sector to more than $27 billion.

📊 By the numbers:

→ Open interest: $162 M (up 3× this week)
→ Short liquidations: $5 M in 24 hrs
→ Locked liquidity: $23 M on-chain
→ Mindshare: +191% week-over-week

The fundamentals of ICP remain intact but the move was sparked by a combination of AI narrative hype and short squeeze momentum. There are now long orders covering about 70 percent of positions, and if momentum holds up, $20 may be a next target traders have in sight.

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