Saving the world takes more than a power-up. Private communications. Local AI. Digital dollars. And, of course, Bitcoin. Turns out, freedom needs a whole stack of tools. So we’re building them.@keet_io @qvac @tetherwallet @WDK_tether @MDK_tether @Pears_p2p The mission? Free the world

GM to the Unstoppable Search Engine. Tether P2P team is developing a peer-to-peer search engine that can scale across thousands of nodes and self-organize data in fault-tolerant structures to maintain high availability and censorship resistance. Work progress is impressive. Here you can see the full Wikipedia archive stored and searchable across 100 distributed nodes in our test environment. Performance is insane.

Tether AI released QVAC TranslatePsy-AfriSLM. It beats much bigger flagship models and is available in two versions: 800M and 2B tokens. Perfect to run 100% locally on any device. Tether's team is insanely good.

Tether & QVAC are investing into AI inclusion for the hundreds of millions of people in Africa that today are left behind. Hausa, Yoruba, Swahili, Amharic, Zulu: widely spoken, and in AI still an afterthought. Open-source AI moved fast on the languages that already filled the internet, and left much of the world out of the revolution it started. Today QVAC releases TranslatePsy-AfriSLM: open-source translation models for 19 African languages, running on the phone people already own.

AI inclusion is the next frontier for Tether expansion. - billions of people can't afford to pay for AI - they can't be left out of the biggest tech revolution of our times Tether AI developed an high-quality AI translation model that supports 18 African languages and can operate 100% locally on devices (smartphones and laptops), without the need of connectivity. TranslatePsy-AfriSLM outperforms far larger AI models, despite containing just 800 million parameters, the smallest TranslatePsy-AfriSLM model outperformed Qwen3.5-122B-A10B, TranslateGemma-27B, and NLLB-3.3B across the FLORES-200, BOUQuET, and SMOL translation benchmarks. It supports Hausa, Amharic, Yoruba, Lingala, Swahili, Igbo, Zulu, Somali, Oromo, Malagasy, Kinyarwanda, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Wolof, Luganda, Nyanja, Shona, Tswana, and Southern Sotho. Unstoppable Together.

Tether ❤️ Africa Where you are born should never limit your potential. True progress begins with access to stable money, stable energy, stable communications, and now also stable intelligence. Today, we introduce QVAC TranslatePsy / Afri SLM, a lightweight AI translation model built for the hundreds of millions across Africa who were left behind by the digital divide. Running entirely on-device, 100% free, and completely offline, it translates 19 African languages natively. Village squares become classrooms, farmers unlock vital techniques, and life-saving medical knowledge speaks in the mother tongue. We are not bringing people into the world of AI. We are bringing AI into their world. Tether. Unstoppable together. Learn more:

"The laws of physics alone make centralized AI a dead end: speed of light latency, single points of failure, and concentration of control are features of a system designed for a smaller world." @paoloardoino, in our piece with WIRED on free, open source, local AI.

Some hiding spots are one switch away from disaster. With XAU₮, gold doesn’t need to be taped to a ceiling fan, sewn into a teddy bear, or hidden in the toilet tank. Tether Gold gives you digital access to physical gold, right from your pocket.

Solar energy. Satellite internet. And now, USD₮. In Guatemala, Kingo is showing how access to energy, connectivity and digital dollars can come together to create new possibilities. See how USD₮ is becoming part of that story.