Tether（USDT）即将到达比特币（BTC）和闪电网络

2025年1月30日，在萨尔瓦多的首届Planb论坛上，与系绳首席执行官Paolo Ardoino聊天和Lightning Labs的首席执行官

Tether announced today that it will be bringing USDT to Bitcoin and the Lightning Network.

Tether今天宣布将把USDT带到比特币和闪电网络。

The move follows Tether’s emphasis on aiming to support the Bitcoin ecosystem; as Tether CEO Paolo put it, “Tether is committed to driving innovation in the Bitcoin ecosystem.”

此举遵循系泰特（Tether）的重视支持比特币生态系统。正如Tether首席执行官保罗（Paolo）所说，“系特特致力于在比特币生态系统中推动创新。”

Tether's integration with Bitcoin will be both on-chain and on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network to take advantage of its instant, low-cost transactions.

Tether与比特币的集成将是链和比特币的闪电网络，以利用其即时，低成本的交易。

The integration on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network will be via the Taproot Assets protocol developed by Lightning Labs, which was made possible by Bitcoin’s Taproot upgrade. Through this protocol, Tether can issue USDT over the Lightning Network and allow Bitcoin software and services to integrate and interact more seamlessly with USDT.

比特币闪电网络上的集成将通过闪电实验室开发的Taproot Assets协议，该协议是由Bitcoin的Taproot升级使其成为可能的。通过此协议，Tether可以通过Lightning网络发布USDT，并允许比特币软件和服务与USDT更加无缝地集成和交互。

It will still take some time before there is a critical mass of Bitcoin software and services that adopt this change, as they will need to support the underlying Taproot Assets protocol either through the use of Lightning Labs LND software or other Lightning Network clients and Software Development Kits (SDKs) that support it.

需要一段时间才需要大量的比特币软件和服务来采用这种更改，因为它们需要通过使用Lightning Labs LND软件或其他Lightning网络客户和软件开发来支持基础的Taproot资产协议支持它的套件（SDK）。

Nevertheless, as part of Tether’s next steps for this integration, Bitfinex will be issuing and making USDT available. Tether and Lightning Labs say they will continue working together to ensure a seamless path to adoption and support for users and developers.

尽管如此，作为Tether此集成下一步步骤的一部分，Bitfinex将发行并使USDT可用。 Tether和Lightning Labs表示，他们将继续共同努力，以确保无缝采用和为用户和开发人员提供支持。

Back in April 2022, less than a year after the activation of Bitcoin’s Taproot upgrade, Lightning Labs announced that it had developed a protocol on the Lightning network—Taproot Assets—that would allow for the issuance and transfer of assets such as USDT over the Lightning network.

早在2022年4月，即在激活比特币的Taproot升级不到一年之后，Lightning Labs宣布，它已经在闪电网络（Taproot Assets）上开发了一项协议，该协议将允许在闪电上发行和转让USDT等资产（例如USDT）网络。

The protocol allows for both fungible (e.g., stablecoins) and non-fungible assets (e.g., NFTs and collectibles) to be issued and transferred without disrupting the normal functioning of Bitcoin on-chain or lighting channels—as intermediary nodes do not need to upgrade or opt-in, only what are known as "Edge Nodes" are aware of Taproot Assets and handle them accordingly. Nevertheless, the protocol allows these Taproot Assets to be transferred on-chain or via the Lightning Network.

该协议允许发行和传输可及格（例如，稳定剂）和无框架资产（例如，NFT和收藏品），而不会破坏比特币在链上或照明渠道的正常功能（如中间节点）或选择加入，只有所谓的“边缘节点”才意识到Taproot资产并相应地处理。尽管如此，该协议允许这些Taproot资产在链上或通过闪电网络传输。

Since Lightning Labs’ Taproot Assets protocol announcement, with the help of the broader Lightning developer community, they have been improving, testing, and integrating this protocol into their suite of products and developer toolchains, with over 177,000 taproot assets minted on-chain so far.

由于闪电实验室的Taproot资产协议公告，借助更广泛的闪电开发人员社区，他们一直在改进，测试和将此协议整合到其产品和开发人员工具链中，到目前为止，迄今为止，超过177,000多个Taproot资产铸造了链接的链接。 。

This protocol’s introduction resurfaced community discussions around opening up a pandora's box of further tokenization and similar token frenzies and scams in the broader crypto space into the Bitcoin ecosystem and the consequences for Bitcoin's unique value proposition, ethos, principles, and user experience.

该协议的简介重新浮出水面的社区讨论，围绕开放一个潘多拉的进一步令牌化，以及在更广泛的加密货币领域中的类似的象征性疯狂和骗局，以进入比特币生态系统，以及比特币对比特币独特价值主张，精神，原理和用户体验的后果。

Following the announcement of Bitcoin as a legal tender in El Salvador in June 2021, it also highlighted a growing need for access to stablecoins, which, in response, Lightning Labs decided to create the Taproots Assets protocol a year later. This trend of growing interest in stablecoins across emerging markets has been on a steady incline, with reasons ranging from tighter controls on US Dollar access from governments implementing currency controls to satiating the present demand for accessing US Dollars given its role as the backbone of traditional financial rails.

在2021年6月在萨尔瓦多宣布比特币作为法定招标之后，它也强调了越来越多的访问stablecoins的需求，作为回应，闪电实验室决定在一年后创建Taproots Assets协议。这种对整个新兴市场的稳定币兴趣日益增长的趋势一直处于稳定的倾向，其原因包括对实施货币管制的政府对美元访问的额外控制权到满足目前对美元的需求，因为它是传统金融的骨干的作用铁轨。

Tether, the world’s largest issuer of stablecoins, who recorded a profit of over $13 billion in Q4, 2024 (making them likely the most profitable company per employee), has over the years continued to invest significantly in the Bitcoin ecosystem, from through various initiatives and investments.

全球最大的Stablecoins发行人Tether，他在2024年第四季度的利润超过130亿美元（使其成为每名员工最有利可图的公司），多年来一直在通过各种计划中对比特币生态系统进行大量投资和投资。

By bringing USDT to Bitcoin, Tether will introduce its 350 million global users to the most liquid, cheap, and instant global monetary network—Bitcoin. Similarly, it provides its stablecoin users in emerging markets with access to Bitcoin, given the interoperability permitted by the Lightning Network.

通过将USDT带到比特币，Tether将向其3.5亿全球用户介绍最液体，廉价和即时的全球货币网络Bitcoin。同样，考虑到闪电网络允许的互操作性，它为新兴市场中的Stablecoin用户提供了对比特币的访问。

With the ability to leverage Bitcoin’s Lightning Network, USDT will gain from the interoperability across the Bitcoin ecosystem and provide cheap instant payments in regions such as Africa and LATAM, where the demand for USD-based stablecoins is exceedingly high.

有了利用比特币的闪电网络的能力，USDT将从比特币生态系统的互操作性中获得，并在非洲和LATAM等地区提供廉价的即时付款，在非洲和LATAM，对基于USD的Stablecoins的需求极高。

While stablecoins have mostly been on chains such as Ethereum and Tron, these networks are often slow, expensive, and come with various trade-offs; stablecoins on Bitcoin will benefit from its decentralized and robust network—and in principle, stablecoins on Lightning offer final settlement, instant low-cost payments, and scalability without compromising Bitcoin’s decentralization.

尽管Stablecoins主要属于以太坊和Tron等连锁店，但这些网络通常很慢，昂贵，并且需要各种权衡。比特币上的Stablecoins将从其分散和强大的网络中受益，并且原则上，闪电的稳定者提供最终解决，即时的低成本付款和可伸缩性，而不会损害比特币的分散性。

With USDT volume reaching $10 trillion in 2024, roughly 60% of Visa’s annual volume, this integration would bring a significant portion of these volumes to the Bitcoin ecosystem and Tether's millions of users worldwide.

2024年，由于USDT的数量达到了10万亿美元，占Visa年度的大约60％，这种整合将为比特币生态系统和Tether在全球范围内的数百万用户带来大部分此类卷。

Relatedly, having USDT on Bitcoin does come with the potential of increased fees that Bitcoin Miners, Lightning Network routing nodes, and other service providers could accrue from all this activity.

相关的是，在比特币上使用USDT确实具有增加比特币矿工，闪电网络路由节点和其他服务提供商可能从所有这些活动中获得的费用的潜力。

Bitcoin wallets and payment companies such as Bitnob and Jan3’s Aqua wallet servicing users have integrated USDT, given the spike in stablecoin adoption (particularly USDT), where,

比特币钱包和付款公司（例如比特诺布和Jan3的Aqua Wallet Servicing用户）已经整合了USDT，鉴于采用Stablecoin（尤其是USDT），