PANews reported on December 12th, citing Bloomberg, that while pursuing a funding plan of up to $20 billion, Tether is considering ways to improve liquidity, such as share buybacks or equity tokenization. Tether management is concerned that existing shareholders selling shares at a discount will affect the valuation and has not yet allowed them to participate in this funding round. Tether previously launched the Hadron asset tokenization platform, aiming to represent assets such as stocks in blockchain form.