{"id":22582,"date":"2026-06-26T11:42:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T11:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businessprofittoday.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/26\/tether-usdt-overtakes-ethereum-in-market-cap-for-the-first-time-heres-why\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T11:42:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T11:42:55","slug":"tether-usdt-overtakes-ethereum-in-market-cap-for-the-first-time-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businessprofittoday.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/26\/tether-usdt-overtakes-ethereum-in-market-cap-for-the-first-time-heres-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Tether (USDT) Overtakes Ethereum in Market Cap for the First Time: Here\u2019s Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/coinpedia.org\/news\/tether-usdt-overtakes-ethereum-in-market-cap-for-the-first-time-heres-why\/\">Tether (USDT) Overtakes Ethereum in Market Cap for the First Time: Here&#8217;s Why<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/coinpedia.org\">Coinpedia Fintech News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time in years, the crypto rankings experienced a major shake-up. Tether\u2019s USDT briefly overtook Ethereum to become the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization. At the peak of the crossover, USDT\u2019s market cap climbed to approximately $186.06 billion. It narrowly surpassed Ethereum\u2019s valuation of around $185.66 billion as ETH traded in the $1,500-$1,600 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The post Tether (USDT) Overtakes Ethereum in Market Cap for the First Time: Here&#8217;s Why&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-investing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businessprofittoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businessprofittoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businessprofittoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessprofittoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessprofittoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/businessprofittoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessprofittoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businessprofittoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessprofittoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessprofittoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}