Corporate Strategy

Rising mining difficulty, corporate pivots into staking and aggressive treasury yield-seeking are changing how newly minted BTC hits the market. This deep-dive explains the end‑of‑2025 difficulty reading, early‑2026 scenarios, and what BitMine and Metaplanet moves mean for sell‑side pressure and network health.

Tether’s reported move into trade finance and large-scale robotics/AI investments marks a strategic pivot from pure stablecoin issuance toward corporate diversification. This explainer assesses how those moves could affect USDT reserve liquidity, counterparty concentration, DeFi exposure, and potential regulatory responses.