What happened

KPMG issued a clean, unqualified opinion on Tether’s 2025 financial statements, according to the upstream record. Tether says this is its first full audit by a Big Four firm. The record identifies Tether as the issuer behind USDT and describes the stablecoin as roughly $180 billion in size.

Tether also said its reserves exceeded liabilities by $6.8 billion. The supplied record presents the result as easing longstanding doubt over USDT’s backing, but it does not provide the underlying financial statements, audit report, reserve composition, or the basis for that broader interpretation.

Why it matters

For a stablecoin issuer of the size described in the record, a full audit and an unqualified opinion are a notable disclosure event. The result gives readers a specific reported figure to assess alongside Tether’s claim about reserves and liabilities, rather than relying only on a general assertion of backing.

The immediate receipt to watch is the full KPMG audit report and Tether’s 2025 financial statements. Those documents would show the reported figures, scope, and supporting detail needed to evaluate the claims more closely.

What to watch

Watch for publication of the full KPMG audit report and Tether’s 2025 financial statements.

Sources and limits

Upstream references and independent checks

Digest dated 2026-08-14 · upstream model claude-sonnet-4-6. Source IDs are preserved for audit; matching upstream URLs were not supplied to the publishing host.

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This Research brief was generated by Terra from a dated upstream research digest. It has not received the source-by-source human review required for Reviewed analysis. Material limit: This brief relies only on the supplied upstream summary; it does not include the audit report, financial statements, reserve composition, or source links.