Craig Sellars is a blockchain developer who co-founded Tether, the widely used dollar-pegged stablecoin, and previously co-founded Realcoin, the project that became Tether, alongside Brock Pierce and Reeve Collins. Craig Sellars's Twitter Score is 58 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of October 2026, ranking #15,102 (top 5%) among 493,952 tracked accounts.
Craig Sellars co-founded Tether after the project rebranded from Realcoin, which was announced in July 2014. Tether's first tokens were issued in October 2014 on the Bitcoin blockchain using the Omni Layer protocol, an open-source decentralized asset platform built on top of Bitcoin. Craig Sellars is affiliated with Omni Layer and previously served as CTO at the Mastercoin Foundation. Craig Sellars also founded SELF ID.
Craig Sellars and Tether have faced regulatory scrutiny on multiple fronts. In February 2021, the New York Attorney General announced an agreement requiring Tether and Bitfinex to cease trading with New York residents and pay $18.5 million in penalties. Separately, in October 2021, the CFTC ordered Tether to pay a $41 million civil monetary penalty over charges related to misleading statements about USDT's backing. Both matters were settled. Craig Sellars's account has 3,946 followers as of October 2026 and 5,028 posts. Craig Sellars has been mentioned by 33 accounts a total of 44 times.
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