Citing Whale Alert, 150,000,000 USDT ($149,802,750 USD) were newly minted by Tether on the Ethereum blockchain at 16:52:12 UTC on September 19. The hash is 0xb34739c868cc4d81569bf0cfa49ce30103cf844388544beac9a669ddb482f50b. Paolo Ardoino, CTO at Bitfinex, noted that 150M USDT were issued to replenish inventory on the Ethereum network, and it is an authorized but not issued transaction, meaning that this amount will be used as inventory for next period issuance requests.