%{{tag.tag}} {{articledata.title}} {{moment(articledata.cdate)}} @{{articledata.company.replace(" ","")}} comment Cryptoprowl / Tether has taken an 8.2% stake in Antalpha, giving the stablecoin issuer a meaningful position in one of the public-market companies built around financing the bitcoin (CRYPTO: $BTC ) mining industry. A newly filed Schedule 13D shows that Tether-linked entities and chairman Giancarlo Devasini beneficially own 1.95 million Class A shares of Antalpha (NASDAQ: $ANTA ), a position acquired in the company’s May 2025 IPO using working capital. The move adds more shape to how Tether has been widening its footprint beyond stablecoins alone. Antalpha is not a mining company in the direct sense. It sits closer to the capital and risk-management side of the business, offering financing, technology and collateral monitoring tools to institutional and corporate participants in the bitcoin mining market. As Antalpha describes it, the company’s role is to help miners fund equipment purchases and operating costs while holding onto more of their bitcoin. That makes the stake more interesting than a simple portfolio investment. Antalpha has built its business around a part of the bitcoin economy that tends to get less attention than miners themselves, even though it becomes more important when capital is tighter and fleet economics are harder to manage. The company says it is the primary lending partner of Bitmain and operates through its Antalpha Prime platform, which lets customers originate and manage digital-asset-backed loans while monitoring collateral positions in near real time. For Tether, the position also fits a broader pattern. The filing says the shares are held through Tether Investments, S.A. de C.V., which describes its strategic investment focus as spanning emerging technologies, sustainable bitcoin mining operations and financial infrastructure. The filing does not outline any activist agenda, but it does say the group may buy more, hold or sell shares depending on market conditions and Antalpha’s prospects. That leaves the clearest takeaway fairly straightforward: Tether is putting equity capital behind another piece of the bitcoin infrastructure stack, this time on the financing side rather than the token side. Antalpha Platform Holding Co. (NASDAQ: ANTA) stock is currently trading at $9.65 U.S. per share.