Tether has made a strategic investment into the interoperability protocol developer LayerZero Labs. The specific amount of the investment was not disclosed.

LayerZero’s technology already serves as the backbone for USDt0 and XAUt0 (the omnichain versions of USDT and Tether Gold), developed in partnership with Everdawn Labs. These tokens are built on LayerZero’s Omnichain Fungible Token (OFT) standard, allowing them to move natively across blockchains without liquidity fragmentation or wrapped-token risks.

Since launch, USDt0 has facilitated more than $70 billion in cross-chain transfers in under twelve months — concrete proof that LayerZero’s infrastructure can handle global-scale, production-grade interoperability.

Combined with Tether’s own Wallet Development Kit (WDK), LayerZero’s protocol creates what Tether describes as “the most advanced foundational rail” for digital-asset payments, settlements, custody, and the emerging field of agentic finance — where AI agents autonomously manage wallets and execute micro-payments at scale.

“Tether invests in infrastructure that is already delivering real-world utility,” said Paolo Ardoino, CEO of Tether.

“LayerZero Labs has built interoperability technology that allows digital assets to be transferred in real-time across any transport layer and distributed ledger, enabling a fundamental utility within the financial industry. This enables digital assets to serve the infinite agentic AI economy that will require such primitives to orchestrate micro-payments at an unprecedented scale.”

Bryan Pellegrino, CEO of LayerZero Labs, responded:

“Tether is a company the world envies. They have turned a vision of borderless money into a reality. The success of USDt0 was an important stepping stone. Having Tether deepen its commitment with this investment is the ultimate validation. We are thrilled to continue building the rails for global permissionless markets together.”

The investment amount was not disclosed. It aligns with Tether Investments’ broader mandate to back technologies that reduce fragmentation, improve liquidity efficiency, and position stablecoins as true global settlement instruments across diverse blockchain environments.

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