USDT/GEL premium live · Georgia

Mid% = kimchi-style premium: + means USDT is dearer locally than official FX implies. 1H = median premium, last hour.

Median mid premium per currency. Click a tile, or type its code, for the currency page.

Commands

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What it measures

premium(ccy, venue) = USDT price in ccy / official ccy-per-USD − 1

The kimchi premium (Upbit KRW-USDT vs the won rate) applied to every currency with a USDT market: exchange order books where they exist, Binance P2P for the rest (about 85 fiats).

Forward cycle · USDT at a premium

USD → buy USDT on a US venue (ask) → send → sell locally (bid) → local fiat
 ▲                                                                   │
 └──────── remittance partner wires it back at FX mid − remit cost ◀──┘

Reverse cycle · USDT at a discount

USD → remit to local fiat → buy USDT locally (ask) → send → sell on a US venue (bid) → USD

Columns

Premium% / Discount%: Gross edge of the local price against the USD price of USDT, before any fee.
Net% · Net $: What the cycle returns on the notional after every cost in the panel.
BE remit%: The most your remittance partner can charge, all-in, for the cycle to break even.

Caveats

Top of book only. A $100k sale moves thin books; depth is not modelled.
The remittance leg is priced at the official daily mid minus your cost assumption, not a live partner quote.
Not modelled: settlement time, KYC and outbound limits, capital controls, tax.
Where a parallel FX market exists, the premium mostly measures that gap, not an arbitrage.
P2P quotes depend on payment method and size; books wider than the spread limit are dropped.

Questions about USDT/GEL

What is the USDT premium in Georgia?

It is the price of one USDT in Georgian lari divided by the official GEL per US dollar rate, minus one. arbmonitor computes it for each venue that quotes USDT/GEL and shows the median across venues, updated live.

Where is USDT/GEL quoted?

arbmonitor currently reads USDT/GEL prices from Binance P2P, where prices are the median of the top advertisements on each side.

Why can USDT trade away from the official GEL rate?

Local demand for dollars, limits on buying foreign currency, banking frictions and the cost and speed of moving money in and out of Georgia all keep local USDT prices apart from the official rate. Where a parallel exchange rate exists, the premium mostly measures that gap.

How is the GEL round trip calculated?

Forward: dollars buy USDT on a US venue, the USDT is sold for Georgian lari at the local bid, and the GEL is wired back at the official mid rate minus the remittance cost. Reverse: dollars are wired to Georgia, converted at the mid rate, used to buy USDT at the local ask, and the USDT is sold for dollars in the US. Fees, the USDT network fee and a flat wire fee are deducted at each step.