Tether, the company behind the $186 billion USDT stablecoin, is moving beyond its cryptocurrency roots with a privacy-focused health and wellness app.
Wednesday company Rolled QVAC Health, built on its proprietary AI development platform and designed to provide control to users tracking fitness, nutrition and biometric data across devices.
The company said the app allows users to monitor their health data — such as pedometers, sleep trackers, and exercise apps — and keep it offline and encrypted on their personal devices without going through commercial servers or collecting it for ads.
“QVAC Health reflects the company’s commitment to maintaining local privacy,” said Tether CEO Paolo Arodino. “You shouldn’t have to choose between using the best devices on the market and maintaining your privacy. We break down the walls between big tech ecosystems so you can have the full picture of your health.”
The move represents Tether’s latest push into decentralized technology infrastructure and artificial intelligence (AI), expanding beyond finance and digital assets. The rope has been built Q-vaca decentralized AI platform for deploying agents and applications that can run entirely on devices, bypassing centralized cloud infrastructures.
Earlier this week, Tether He said It invested in Italy-based Geneative Bionics as part of a €70 million ($81.5 million) fundraising round. The company is developing intelligent robots with advanced artificial intelligence, with plans for industrial deployment as early as next year.
Before that, Tether bought a majority stake in Blackrock Neurotech, a brain-computer interface company, for $200 million.
