随着加密货币市场的繁荣，Tether 计划将总部迁至萨尔瓦多

加密货币公司 Tether 首席执行官表示，作为全球最大稳定币的创始人，计划将总部迁至萨尔瓦多

Cryptocurrency firm Tether plans to move its headquarters to El Salvador, its chief executive said on Monday, as the founders of the world's biggest stablecoin capitalize on the Central American country's bid to become a hub for crypto trading.

加密货币公司 Tether 首席执行官周一表示，计划将总部迁至萨尔瓦多，因为全球最大稳定币的创始人利用这个中美洲国家成为加密货币交易中心的努力。

Tether has emerged as a dominant force in the booming market for stablecoins, which are designed to maintain a constant value by being pegged to traditional currencies and offer users a way to move money between cryptocurrencies without exposure to price swings.

Tether 已成为蓬勃发展的稳定币市场的主导力量，稳定币旨在通过与传统货币挂钩来保持恒定的价值，并为用户提供一种在加密货币之间转移资金而不受价格波动影响的方式。

CEO Paolo Ardoino told Reuters that Tether would relocate to El Salvador after the cryptocurrency recently obtained a license there as a digital asset service provider. Ardoino and his fellow managers and co-founders of Tether will also move their residences to El Salvador, he said. Previously, the company was incorporated in the British Virgin Islands.

首席执行官保罗·阿多伊诺 (Paolo Ardoino) 告诉路透社，在加密货币最近获得萨尔瓦多作为数字资产服务提供商的许可证后，Tether 将迁往萨尔瓦多。他说，Ardoino 和他的同事以及 Tether 的联合创始人也将把住所搬到萨尔瓦多。此前，该公司在英属维尔京群岛注册成立。

"This move to El Salvador will be the first time we're going to have also a physical headquarters," he said.

“迁往萨尔瓦多将是我们第一次拥有实体总部，”他说。

But not all of the company's 100-plus employees will move there, he said, adding that many of the staff work remotely.

但他表示，公司 100 多名员工并非全部都会搬到那里，并补充说许多员工都在远程工作。

The company plans to hire 100 Salvadorans over the next several years, he said.

他说，该公司计划在未来几年雇用 100 名萨尔瓦多人。

The booming market for stablecoins has worried regulators concerned that growing stablecoin reserves expose the broader financial system to bigger risks, because they act as a bridge between the crypto universe and mainstream financial markets.

稳定币市场的蓬勃发展令监管机构感到担忧，他们担心不断增长的稳定币储备会让更广泛的金融体系面临更大的风险，因为它们充当了加密世界和主流金融市场之间的桥梁。

Tether has faced questions around its reserves and does not fully disclose where they are held or in what form. The firm says the vast majority of its stablecoin is backed by traditional currency reserves held with Wall Street brokerage Cantor Fitzgerald, whose CEO, Howard Lutnick, has been nominated to head the U.S. Commerce Department under President-elect Donald Trump.

Tether 面临着有关其储备的问题，并且没有完全披露这些储备的持有地点或形式。该公司表示，其稳定币的绝大多数是由华尔街经纪公司 Cantor Fitzgerald 持有的传统货币储备支持的，该公司的首席执行官霍华德·卢特尼克 (Howard Lutnick) 已被提名为候任总统唐纳德·特朗普 (Donald Trump) 领导下的美国商务部负责人。

"So, we have some liquidity on other banks, but the vast, vast majority of the T-bills are in Cantor," Ardoino said.

“因此，我们在其他银行有一些流动性，但绝大多数国库券都在坎托，”阿尔多伊诺说。

Boosting monitoring of tokens

加强对代币的监控

The company said last year it was increasing monitoring of how its tokens are used to combat illicit finance.

该公司去年表示，正在加强对其代币如何用于打击非法融资的监控。

Asked whether Tether had considered alternative locations for its headquarters, Ardoino said it lacked a license to operate in the European Union and had ruled out the United States for now.

当被问及 Tether 是否考虑过将总部设在其他地点时，Ardoino 表示，该公司没有在欧盟运营的许可证，目前已排除在美国的可能性。

It was "quite premature" to predict possible changes that might be implemented under Trump, he said.

他说，预测特朗普领导下可能实施的变革“还为时过早”。

Trump's victory in the November U.S. election sparked a record rise in cryptocurrency prices. The Republican has vowed to introduce a friendlier regulatory environment for crypto and said he planned to create a U.S. bitcoin strategic reserve.

特朗普在 11 月美国大选中获胜引发加密货币价格创纪录上涨。这位共和党人发誓要为加密货币引入一个更友好的监管环境，并表示他计划建立美国比特币战略储备。

El Salvador is seeking to become a hub for digital currency trading, and three years ago President Nayib Bukele made it the first country to establish bitcoin as legal tender, alongside the dollar.

萨尔瓦多正在寻求成为数字货币交易的中心，三年前，总统纳伊布·布克莱 (Nayib Bukele) 使其成为第一个将比特币确立为与美元并列的法定货币的国家。

"Welcome home," Bukele wrote on social media platform X in response to Tether's announcement.

“欢迎回家，”布克莱在社交媒体平台 X 上写道，回应 Tether 的声明。

In a separate post on Monday, Bukele asked the CEO of Rumble, Chris Pavlovski, to consider moving the headquarters of the video-sharing platform to El Salvador. Days earlier, the company announced a cloud services agreement with Bukele's government.

在周一的另一篇帖子中，布克莱要求 Rumble 首席执行官克里斯·帕夫洛夫斯基 (Chris Pavlovski) 考虑将视频共享平台的总部迁至萨尔瓦多。几天前，该公司宣布与布克莱政府达成云服务协议。

Tether's eponymous dollar-pegged token USDT=CCCL (USDT) accounts for roughly two-thirds of the $212 billion worth of stablecoins in circulation, according to CoinGecko data.

根据 CoinGecko 的数据，Tether 的同名美元挂钩代币 USDT=CCCL (USDT) 约占流通中价值 2120 亿美元的稳定币的三分之二。

The overall market has grown around 45% over the last year, the data shows.

数据显示，去年整体市场增长了 45% 左右。