PANews reported on May 6 that according to Whale Alert monitoring, Tether Treasury issued an additional $1 billion USDT (worth approximately $1.001 billion) on the Tron network at 4:52 am today.

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino later stated that the additional issuance was an "authorized but not issued" transaction, intended to serve as inventory preparation for future coin issuance requests and on-chain exchanges, and did not mean that it would immediately enter market circulation.