Yes, it's an experiment, we have had a few users -- not sure where they are but likely in the "global south" -- Africa, Asia, etc -- who say they really need to be able to make small payments in USDT. Our idea was to try it out, and provide lots of "warnings" along the way. To be honest so far it's had very, very minimal usage. Might be something we'll abandon. Was interesting to implement and to learn about the various terrible existing solutions for stablecoins....
Yes, it's an experiment, we have had a few users -- not sure where they are but likely in the "global south" -- Africa, Asia, etc -- who say they really need to be able to make small payments in USDT. Our idea was to try it out, and provide lots of "warnings" along the way. To be honest so far it's had very, very minimal usage. Might be something we'll abandon. Was interesting to implement and to learn about the various terrible existing solutions for stablecoins....