Tether makes strategic investment in LayerZero Labs… bolsters interoperable infrastructure for USDt0

Tether has made a strategic investment in LayerZero Labs to strengthen stablecoin interoperability infrastructure.

According to Tether’s official blog on the 10th, Tether Investments announced a strategic investment in LayerZero Labs, an interoperability protocol developer. The investment is aimed at supporting interoperability infrastructure that is already being used in real-world applications across the global digital-asset ecosystem.

Tether said it is building digital-asset infrastructure that can be deployed in practical settings—such as payments, settlement and custody—by combining LayerZero’s interoperability technology with its Wallet Development Kit. It also noted that the infrastructure could be used in AI agent-based financial environments in which artificial intelligence (AI) autonomously operates wallets.

LayerZero is a company that developed a bridge framework enabling asset transfers between blockchains. Last year, Everdawn Labs used the framework to launch USDt0 and XAUt0. Those projects validated the effectiveness of interoperability technology by implementing large-scale cross-chain value transfers in live trading environments.

According to Tether, USDt0 has processed more than $70 billion in cross-chain value transfers in less than 12 months since launch. Based on the omnichain fungible token standard, it is seen as a case demonstrating that stablecoins and tokenized assets can move across blockchains without liquidity fragmentation.

The investment underscores that Tether views interoperability as a core component of global payment infrastructure. Tether outlined a strategy to reduce fragmentation across blockchains and improve liquidity efficiency, enabling stablecoins to function as a settlement instrument in multi-chain environments.

Paolo Ardoino, Tether’s chief executive officer (CEO), said, “Tether invests in infrastructure that is already delivering real-world utility,” adding that “LayerZero’s technology enables digital assets to move in real time across various transport layers and distributed ledgers.” He added that “such technology could become the foundation for agent-based AI financial environments that require large-scale microtransactions.”

Brian Pellegrino, LayerZero’s chief executive officer (CEO), said, “The success of USDt0 was an important milestone,” adding that “this investment shows that interoperability infrastructure is playing a central role in the global digital-asset market.”