Tether launched a fully non-custodial crypto wallet built on WDK, supporting Bitcoin and the company’s major stablecoins. The product is designed for mass adoption and enables transfers using simplified identifiers.
Tether announced the release of tether.wallet, a non-custodial digital wallet that provides direct access to its financial infrastructure for hundreds of millions of users worldwide. The new product allows users to store and transfer digital assets without intermediaries, simplifying crypto usage and removing technical barriers that previously slowed widespread adoption.
The wallet supports the following assets:
At launch, tether.wallet supports USDT and XAUT on the Ethereum, Polygon, Plasma, and Arbitrum blockchains; USAT on Ethereum; and Bitcoin on both the mainnet and via the Lightning Network. Additional blockchain support is planned in the future.
One of the key features is a simplified transfer system: users can send funds using identifiers in the format [email protected] instead of long crypto addresses. Transaction fees are paid directly in the transferred asset, eliminating the need to hold separate tokens for network fees.
The app is fully non-custodial. Private keys and recovery data are stored only by the user, and all transactions are signed locally on the device. This aligns with the company’s principle of giving users full control over their funds.
According to the press release, the wallet launch marks the next stage in Tether’s development, as the company has spent over 10 years building infrastructure for financial inclusion. By its estimates, about half of the world’s population still lacks access to basic financial services, especially in developing countries and high-inflation economies. As of March 2026, Tether technologies are already used by over 570 million people, with tens of millions of new users joining each quarter.
Until now, Tether acted as a foundational layer of the digital economy, providing liquidity and settlement across more than 160 countries. With the launch of tether.wallet, this infrastructure is now directly accessible to end users for the first time.
The wallet is built using the open Wallet Development Kit (WDK), which enables the creation and use of non-custodial solutions for both humans and machines, including artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Tether believes that in the future, tens of billions of users and trillions of AI agents will be able to interact with each other in real time using decentralized infrastructure.
