Algorand Cemented Its Position As A Major Ethereum Challenger In 2020

The world’s most used stablecoin, Tether, has recently become the first stablecoin to be issued on the Algorand network. Additionally, Algorand cemented its position as a network which could challenge the Ethereum network in 2020.

The crypto news showed that Tether has an estimated daily trading volume of 40 to 64 billion and recently announced that they will be partnering with Algorand. Traders will now have the option to use the USD-backed stablecoin on the Omni, Ethereum, Tron, EOS and Algorand blockchains.

Regarding this collaboration and the fact that Algorand cements its position this year as an ETH challenger, the CTO of Tether Paolo Ardoino said:

“A key strength of Tether is that it is underpinned by a rich diversity of different blockchains. Our latest collaboration with Algorand leverages the speed and security of Algorand’s protocol to give traders fast settlement and reduced counterparty risk in their fiat to digital asset transactions. Tether and Algorand both share a desire to keep building next-generation financial products and we feel our growing customer base will appreciate and benefit greatly from this collaboration.”

Led by a Turing award winner named Silvio Micali, Algorand is a public, permissionless and proof-of-stake blockchain that is currently working on creating a borderless global economy. The inherent design and architecture is how Algorand cemented itself from the competition, easily conducting 1000 transactions per second and a block production time of 5 seconds per block. In comparison, the Ethereum latest news show that Ethereum manages less than 25 transactions per second and has a block production time of 15 seconds.

All in all, Algorand is on a good way to provide a highly scalable platform for Tether to function at its maximum capacity. On the other hand, the network can leverage Tether’s immense popularity to attract more users and institutions to its platform. This won’t only increase the platform’s usage – it will also bring in more developers and applications as well.

While Algorand cements itself as a direct competitor to Ethereum, Tether (USDT) is also moving up and recently become the latest high profile project to collaborate with Algorand. The native token of Algorand, ALGO, has meanwhile been accepted on many major exchanges in the likes of Binance, CoinBasePRO, Huobi, Kraken and several others.