Tether mints 1B USDT on Tron, pushing total supply past 91B as Justin Sun highlights the latest on-chain move.

According to the source, a social post claimed a 1B USDT mint on the TRON network on Jan 9, 2026; this has not been independently verified and should be confirmed via Tether Transparency and TronScan before trading (sources: Tether Transparency, TronScan). Verification requires identifying a mint transaction from the Tether Treasury address on TRON and a corresponding increase in USDT-TRON supply on Tether’s transparency page (sources: TronScan, Tether Transparency). Tether has previously stated that large mints to the Treasury are often authorized but not issued and used for inventory and chain swaps, which may not immediately expand circulating supply (source: Tether official statements). Traders should, after confirmation, monitor USDT-USD peg stability, TRX perpetual funding rates, and stablecoin inflows to exchanges to assess liquidity impact and potential spillover to BTC and ETH perps (sources: Tether Transparency for supply, major exchange funding rate pages such as Binance and OKX).

According to @lookonchain, Tether minted 1B USDT on Tron, with the mint recorded on TronScan under transaction hash 9d5e452e04101023b48371549ee70ce0bdffe99029fb9b6a0a0db0b177f5b17f (source: @lookonchain; TronScan). @lookonchain also reports that the stablecoin market cap on Tron has surpassed 81.2B dollars, highlighting increased USDT capacity on the TRX network for trading rails (source: @lookonchain).