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<h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-key-insights">Key Insights:</h3>
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 <li>The corporate records of Tether and social media links suggest close family and personal ties between key figures at Tether, Bitfinex, and projects like USDT0 and Everdawn Labs.</li>
 <li>Shared addresses, registered agents, and overlapping leadership roles raise questions about transparency and governance at one of crypto’s most systemically important firms.</li>
 <li>The concentration of influence echoes past crypto collapses, underscoring why understanding personal relationships matters as stablecoins become critical market infrastructure.</li>
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Tether USDT stablecoin has grown into a <a href="https://www.thecoinrepublic.com/2025/04/20/why-stablecoins-could-outshine-bitcoin-in-everyday-transactions/">$180 billion market-cap network</a>, yet reports note its management is unusually lean.
In mid-December 2025, investigative reporting revealed that several top Tether executives are connected by family ties to affiliated projects.
Records show Everdawn Labs Limited – the British Virgin Islands firm behind Tether’s cross-chain asset USDT0 – lists Lorenzo Romagnoli as a director.
Everdawn’s official address is Trinity Chambers, P.O. Box 4301, Road Town, Tortola. That is the same P.O. Box 4301 in Tortola that Tether uses: a Tether regulatory filing confirms its mailing address as SHRM Trustees (BVI) Limited, Trinity Chambers, PO Box 4301, Road Town, Tortola.
Everdawn also uses SHRM Trustees (BVI) Ltd as its registered agent, again the same agent cited in Tether’s filings. These overlaps suggest the two firms share not just business interests but office and administrative resources.
<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-tether-everdawn-labs-and-the-romagnoli-connection">Tether Everdawn Labs and the Romagnoli Connection</h2>
Everdawn Labs co-founded USDT0 with a “Lorenzo R.” whose identity was traced to Lorenzo Romagnoli. In a November 2023 press release, a “Lorenzo R, Co-founder of USDT0 and Everdawn Labs,” spoke on behalf of the project.
The BVI corporate registry confirms “Lorenzo Romagnoli” is a director of Everdawn Labs. Lorenzo’s personal profiles also reference the USDT0 project, and investigators have tied him to Tether’s circle.
Notably, Lorenzo’s father, Marco Romagnoli, appears on social media as Lorenzo’s parent, and Italian media identified Marco as the brother‑in‑law of Giancarlo Devasini.
Giancarlo Devasini is Tether’s chairman and Bitfinex CFO. This connection implies that Lorenzo is likely Devasini’s nephew, a conclusion one source describes as “familiar” with the situation.
The proffered evidence is concrete: Lorenzo Romagnoli’s Everdawn Labs shares the exact Tortola P.O. box used by Devasini in U.S. SEC filings.
In short, Everdawn’s address – “Trinity Chambers, P.O. Box 4301” – matches Tether’s disclosed address. Likewise, both companies list SHRM Trustees (BVI) Limited as their BVI registered agent.
According to the report, “these connections suggest there might be a more familial relationship between Tether and USDT0 than has previously been disclosed.” Tether’s management has thus far not publicly addressed the uncovering of these links.
<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-crypto-art-and-personal-partnerships">Crypto Art and Personal Partnerships</h2>
Family ties extend beyond corporate titles. Valentina Picozzi is an Italian artist who has collaborated on crypto-themed projects closely tied to Tether.
Picozzi’s Satoshigallery created a Satoshi Nakamoto statue unveiled in Lugano with Tether’s support and Tether-funded Twenty One Capital later placed a copy at the New York Stock Exchange.
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An interview claims Picozzi even designed the Bitfinex and Tether logos, underscoring her behind-the-scenes role. Her Instagram and art often tag Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino, reflecting this association.
Importantly, Picozzi is Devasini’s partner in various senses. The Wall Street Journal described her as Giancarlo Devasini’s wife, while the Financial Times Alphaville blog referred to her as his “long-term girlfriend.”
In 2024, news reports noted that Devasini and Picozzi purchased a house together in El Salvador. These personal ties, whether formal marriage or a committed partnership, suggest Devasini has integrated family into Tether’s broader ecosystem. Tether and Bitfinex have not publicly clarified Picozzi’s official role, if any.
Several of the stablecoin’s leading figures are also connected by blood or marriage. Tether’s chief technical officer Paolo Ardoino is married to Bitfinex/Tether COO Claudia Lagorio.
They co-own real estate and are often described as spouses in the media. Even Tether’s principal shareholders have ties: British investor Christopher Harborne and his brother William Harborne have long been partners in crypto ventures.
These examples further illustrate the “tight-knit” nature of Tether’s inner circle.
<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-a-closer-look-into-tether-business">A Closer Look into Tether Business</h2>
Tether’s own regulatory letters (e.g. a November 2023 <a href="https://assets.ctfassets.net/vyse88cgwfbl/6zq3ex2c9odGTXUC5rs8hp/34d4db8ef2060d3eac80e5256dc2ae08/For_the_Attn_Sen_Lummis___Rep_French_Hill.pdf#:~:text=16%20November%2C%202023%20Tether%20Operations,Town%2C%20Tortola%20British%20Virgin%20Islands" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow">letter</a> to U.S. lawmakers) show its Tortola office as “c/o SHRM Trustees (BVI) Limited, Trinity Chambers, PO Box 4301” – exactly the same address used by Everdawn.
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Corporate records from the BVI list the Everdawn directors,including Lorenzo Romagnoli, and media reports identify family relationships.
In sum, Tether’s massive stablecoin empire appears to be run through a remarkably small, family-linked leadership team. The revelations emerged in late 2025 as regulators and market participants <a href="https://www.thecoinrepublic.com/2025/11/05/stablecoins-under-fire-banking-groups-pushes-back-on-defi-crypto-community-fires-back/">intensified scrutiny of stablecoins </a>and their governance.
<a href="https://www.thecoinrepublic.com/2024/04/23/lummis-gillibrand-bill-is-set-to-ban-algorithmic-stablecoins/">U.S. lawmakers like Sen. Lummis </a>have already pressed Tether for transparency in its operations.) So far, Tether officials have not publicly commented on these family connections.
Yet the documentation is clear that key roles in Everdawn and related ventures are held by relatives of Tether’s executives.
The post <a href="https://www.thecoinrepublic.com/2025/12/16/inside-tether-inner-circle-family-ties-behind-the-180b-stablecoin-giant/">Inside Tether Inner Circle: Family Ties Behind the $180B Stablecoin Giant</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.thecoinrepublic.com">The Coin Republic</a>.

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