【国际】Tether宣布：销毁5亿枚USDT，留4.46亿枚用于发行

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【国际】Tether宣布：销毁5亿枚USDT，留4.46亿枚用于发行

2018 年 10 月 25 日 互联网金融

稳定币USDT的发行方Tether在10月24日发表的一篇官方文章中表示，它已经从市面上赎回了大量代币，现在将销毁保险库钱包中的5亿枚USDT。

该公司称保险库中USDT数量将只剩下4.46亿枚，为未来发行USDT做准备。这意味着，这些被赎回和销毁的代币占原有供应量的52.8%。

这笔赎回记录可以在OMNI区块链浏览器上查看，在区块547155位置显示了24日有一笔5亿枚USDT的已确认交易。Tether公司的声明提示公众可以参考白皮书中所描述的代币发行和赎回过程的“概念性”要点。Tether在白皮书中这样写道：

比特币区块链公开记录的每枚发行或赎回的Tether代币，都将与公司银行账户的存款或提款相对应。

正如白皮书指出的那样，在其加密货币会计流程方面，Tether通过Omni协议层在公共比特币区块链上发行，比特币区块链的公开和透明属性确保了USDT代币交易能够被验证和追踪。

Omni浏览器进一步显示，Tether代币目前的存储数量为466678763.48枚，与公司的声明相符。

白皮书指出，法币会计是Tether系统“偿付能力公式”的一部分，美元储备的可证明性将依赖于几个流程，包括公司在其透明度报告上公布的银行账户余额（资金证明）和专业审计。

正如加密货币投资者兼企业家迈克尔•诺沃格拉茨(Michael Novogratz)最近强调的那样，Tether一直以来在其透明度行为方面备受争议。一些人甚至指责Tether与Bitfinex串通一气，故意掩盖其法币储备赤字，对该公司声称USDT得到美元一对一支撑的说法提出了怀疑。

据称，Tether今年1月与第三方审计机构解除合作关系后，于6月份发布了一份“资金证明”，称Tether确实有足够的美元储备来支撑流通的USDt代币，这些美元存放在一家未披露的银行账户内。

24日大规模的代币赎回和销毁在推特上引起了币圈的激烈猜测，特别是Tether在不久前短暂失去了其美元锚定，交易价一度跌至0.91美元后，导致一些人指责该公司通过低价回购USDT并在市场反弹后进行变卖的方式来操纵市场。

币圈大佬WhalePanda调侃道：

USDT稀缺性来了！价格马上到1.01美元。

另外有一些人则认为Tether公司已无法提供足够的储备来支撑这些代币，这不仅暗示了Tether长期以来一直存在的透明度问题、漫长加密货币熊市，也暗示了与它有裙带关系的加密货币交易所Bitfinex最近受到有关无力偿还和缺乏银行服务传闻的困境，虽然该传闻一直被Bitfinex官方所否认。

就在24日，Bitfinex对最近有媒体指责它发布的交易量数据是为了“一个不存在的市场”的报道作出了回应。该报道称Bitfinex通过从其内部API将关于“USDT-USD交易对”的数据馈送给流行的加密货币数据站点CoinMarketCap，而实际上Bitfinex未在交易平台上提供该交易对服务。

英文原文

Tether, issuer of stablecoin USDT, says it has “redeemed a significant amount” of tokens from the circulating supply and will now “destroy” 500 million USDT from the Tether treasury wallet, in an official post published Oct. 24.

According to the firm, this will leave 446 million USDT remaining in its treasury in preparation for future USDT issuances — meaning that those tokens redeemed and “burned” account for 52.8 percent of the total former supply.

The redemption is visible on the OMNI blockchain explorer, which shows a confirmed transactiondated today of 500 million USDT in block 547155. Tether’s announcement directs the public to consult the “conceptual” outlines of the token issuance and redemption process as described in its white paper, where the firm states that:

every tether issued or redeemed, as publicly recorded by the Bitcoin blockchain will correspond to a deposit or withdrawal of funds from the [company’s] bank account.

As the white paper notes, for the crypto side of its accounting processes, the public and transparent nature of the public Bitcoin (BTC) blockchain — onto which tethers are issued via Omni Layer’s protocol — ensures that the token transaction can be verified and tracked.

Omni Explorer further indicates that Tether’s token reserves are now 466,678,763.48, congruous with the company’s statement.

When it comes to its fiat accounting, the white paper states that, as part of “the ‘Solvency Equation’ for the Tether System […] the provability of [U.S. dollar reserves] will rely on several processes,” including the firm’s publication of bank account balances on its Transparency page (“Proof of Funds”), and professional audits.

Tether has a notably contentious history in regard to its transparency conduct, as crypto investor and entrepreneur Michael Novogratz recently underlined. Casting doubt on the firm’s claims that USDT is backed one-to-one by the U.S. dollar, some have gone so far as to accuse the firm of covering up an alleged fiat reserve deficit in complicity with Bitfinex.

After the firm is alleged to have dissolved its relationship with a third-party auditor this January, its “Proof of Funds” released in June claimed that Tether did have sufficient dollar reserves for circulating tokens, held in an undisclosed bank.

Today’s large-scale token redemption and destruction has provoked heated speculation on crypto Twitter, notably as tether had just recently — if briefly — lost its U.S. dollar peg to trade as low as $0.91, leading some to accuse the firm of manipulating the market by redeeming at low cost and liquidating after the market rebound.

Crypto personality WhalePanda quipped in this vein, “$USDT scarcity incoming! $1.01 soon.”

Others have suggested that the company is unable to back the tokens with adequate reserves, alluding both to Tether’s troubled transparency history, the protracted crypto bear market, and the fact that associated crypto Bitfinex has recently been plagued by rumored insolvency and alleged banking difficulties, which it has since been prompted to officially deny.

Just today, Bitfinex responded to a recent media report that had accused the exchange of publishing trading volume data for “a market that doesn’t exist,” by feeding data regarding a “USDT-USD trading pair” — which is not supported on the platform — from its in-house API to popular crypto data site CoinMarketCap.

作者：Marie Huillet
编译：Libert
稿源（译）：巴比特资讯