Tether Investments made a strategic investment in LayerZero Labs, citing production-grade interoperability infrastructure used by USDt0 and XAUt0.
Tether Investments has announced a strategic investment in LayerZero Labs.
Tether said LayerZero’s technology enables digital assets to move across blockchains, and highlighted that LayerZero’s infrastructure was used by Everdawn Labs to develop USDt0 and XAUt0 over the past year.
Built on LayerZero’s Omnichain Fungible Token standard, the implementations are described as demonstrating cross-chain transfers without fragmentation or loss of liquidity.
The company said the investment aligns with its strategy of supporting systems that reduce fragmentation, improve liquidity efficiency, and enable stablecoins to function as global settlement instruments across diverse blockchain environments.
It also said that combined with Tether’s Wallet Development Kit (WDK), the infrastructure provides foundational rails for payments, settlements, and custody for real-world use cases, enabling AI agents to operate autonomous wallets and transact at scale.
Paolo Ardoino, CEO of Tether, said: “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.”
Bryan Pellegrino, CEO of LayerZero, said: “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.”
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