Opera’s Crypto Waltz: 17% Leap on Tether’s Golden Embrace

This expansion, a marriage of convenience between Opera and Tether, brings the USDT stablecoin and the gold-backed XAU₮0 token-a bridged creation not of Tether’s own making-into the embrace of MiniPay, Opera’s self-custodial wallet built on the Celo blockchain. A noble endeavor, no doubt, targeting the wretched of the earth in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia, who, deprived of traditional banking, now have access to digital dollars. MiniPay, since its late 2023 debut, has processed 350 million transactions and activated over 12.6 million wallets. A triumph of technology, or merely a new guise for old exploitation? The jury is still out.




