Can you verify Tether USD (USDT) reserves yourself?
USDT's reserves sit off-chain, so you read a third-party attestation of them rather than the accounts themselves.
Backed by a reserve portfolio (US Treasuries, cash equivalents, and other assets) disclosed through quarterly attestation reports by BDO. The reserves are held and reported off-chain; you read the attestation, not the underlying accounts.
What you cannot verify yourself: That the off-chain reserve portfolio of US Treasuries, cash equivalents, and other assets exists at the value in Tether's quarterly BDO attestation. There is no live on-chain proof of these reserves; the quarterly attestation is the disclosure.
Issued by Tether. "Attestor-required" describes the structure of the verification, not the quality of the issuer.
Run this on USDT yourself, or get a signed record of it.
The read below is free and live. Or get a machine-signed, point-in-time read of this exact address in about two minutes, that anyone you forward it to can verify in three lines without trusting you.
Signed on the page after you pay in USDC on Base: no email, no wait. It signs public on-chain bytes only (supply, decimals, and symbol at a block), not a solvency opinion and not a claim about who controls the address. Issuing a dollar of your own? The GENIUS-readiness kit is $999 setup then $99 a month. Not compliance and not an audit.
Live supply, and the command that reproduces it
What this read establishes: On-chain USDT supply on Ethereum mainnet, which you can read live at any moment.
Reproduce the supply read yourself
cast call 0xdac17f958d2ee523a2206206994597c13d831ec7 "totalSupply()(uint256)" --rpc-url https://ethereum-rpc.publicnode.comcast call 0xdac17f958d2ee523a2206206994597c13d831ec7 "symbol()(string)" --rpc-url https://ethereum-rpc.publicnode.comPrefer curl? Show the raw JSON-RPC call
curl -s -X POST https://ethereum-rpc.publicnode.com -H 'content-type: application/json' --data '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"eth_call","params":[{"to":"0xdac17f958d2ee523a2206206994597c13d831ec7","data":"0x18160ddd"},"latest"]}'Live supply is read from the chain and cached hourly on this page; the command above is real-time. Always confirm you are reading the canonical contract address. A look-alike token can copy any name or symbol; only the address is identity.
Other fiat-backed tokens
Also: the reserve transparency scorecard, the Stablecoin Reserve Recomputation Report, every stablecoin we cover, or paste any address into the free tool.
Kerne is infrastructure and a service provider, not an auditor, a rating agency, a custodian, or an investment adviser. This page reads public on-chain data and names publicly disclosed transparency methods. It is not an audit, a solvency or credit opinion, a recommendation, or any form of investment, legal, tax, or accounting advice, and the appearance of USDT is not an endorsement. Reserve-transparency descriptions are sourced from Tether's public disclosures and, where the token is listed there, the Kerne synthetic-dollar scorecard, cross-verified June 29 to July 3, 2026; verify at the canonical sites. Kerne is not affiliated with Tether or any attestor named here. Page reviewed 2026-07-03. Last updated July 3, 2026.