Big Four firm Deloitte attested to $17.6 million in reserves backing USAt, Tether’s new US-regulated stablecoin issued by Anchorage Digital Bank. Deloitte & Touche, one of the Big Four accounting firms, issued an independent attestation on the reserve report backing USAt, a new US-regulated stablecoin from Anchorage, which is issuing USAT with Tether’s support. In a letter dated Feb. 27, Deloitte said it examined Anchorage’s assertion that the USAt (USAT) Reserve Report was prepared in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants’ 2025 criteria for asset-backed, fiat-pegged tokens. The report covers reserves as of Jan. 31, 2026. “In our opinion, management’s assertion that the USAt Reserve Report is prepared in accordance with the criteria set forth therein as of the Report Date is fairly stated, in all material respects,” Deloitte wrote. Read more
Bybit says most of the $300 million “saved” came from users backing out after real-time warnings, highlighting how exchanges are shifting from recovery to preemptive fraud stops. Bybit said it blocked or disrupted more than $300 million worth of suspected scam-related withdrawals in the fourth quarter of 2025 after rolling out an AI-assisted risk monitoring system designed to flag malicious transactions before funds leave the exchange. In a company blog post, Bybit said its system flagged about $500 million in withdrawal requests during the quarter and that more than 4,000 users were “protected” after the platform issued real-time risk alerts or blocked transactions outright. Bybit’s head of group risk control, David Zong, told Cointelegraph that much of the $300 million total reflects withdrawals users voluntarily cancelled after seeing warnings, meaning the funds remained in their accounts rather than requiring clawbacks or reimbursement. Read more
Vista Bank announces the integration of all RoPay payment methods dedicated to individuals, following the successful implementation of four new types of payments performed by scanning RoPay QR codes: POS payments, eCommerce payments, bill payments, and merchant payments using static QR codes.
Housing deliveries across Romania went below 58,000 units in 2025, the lowest level of the last eight years, but the volume of transactions remains nearly 20% above the pre-pandemic average, according to the annual report published by real estate consulting firm Colliers.