A New Era for Stablecoins: Tether Is Coming to Bitcoin and Lightning ⚡💸

https://lightning.engineering/posts/2025-01-30-Tether-on-Lightning/

Tether has integrated with the Lightning Network via Taproot assets, adding to its existing support on Omni, Ethereum, Liquid, and Tron. This implementation enables instant transactions and allows merchants to issue Lightning invoices to receive USD Tether, differing from Strike's model where users pay in USD and merchants receive BTC. This development opens up possibilities for atomic swaps, potentially increasing liquidity for both Bitcoin and Tether.