Some investments arrive quietly. Their impact, however, tends to last. Tether’s move into LayerZero fits squarely into that category.

LayerZero’s infrastructure plays a central role in powering USDT0, Tether’s omnichain stablecoin. With this investment, Tether aims to ensure that stablecoins can move globally without being confined to a single network.

What Does USDT0 Change?

USDT0 is the fully on-chain, cross-chain representation of traditional USDT.

Built on LayerZero’s Omnichain Fungible Token (OFT) standard, the structure allows USDT to reach networks where it isn’t natively issued — without liquidity fragmentation. Tokens remain backed 1:1 by USDT.

It sounds simple. In practice, it’s a meaningful shift. According to Tether, since launching in early 2025, USDT0 has facilitated more than $70 billion in cross-chain value transfers. And that’s just the first year.

Everdawn Labs also played a key role. Using LayerZero’s protocol, Everdawn brought both USDT0 and XAUt0 to market, enabling stablecoins and tokenized assets to move seamlessly across chains without breaking liquidity.

Paolo Ardoino: This Is No Longer Just Crypto Infrastructure

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino frames LayerZero’s technology in broader terms.

According to Ardoino, LayerZero enables digital assets to be transferred in real time across any transport layer or distributed ledger — a foundational capability for modern finance.

There’s another layer to this story. Tether believes LayerZero’s infrastructure will eventually allow AI agents to operate autonomous wallets, transact at scale with stablecoins, and automate micro-payments. Agentic finance sits quietly in the background of this investment.

LayerZero CEO Bryan Pellegrino describes USDT0 as a major milestone. For him, Tether’s investment validates that the technology has already proven itself in production environments.

Tether Is Expanding Its Investment Portfolio

This move doesn’t stand alone. Widely regarded as one of the most profitable companies in crypto, Tether has been aggressively diversifying its investment strategy. Just last week, the company announced a strategic investment in t-0, a USDT-backed payment network designed for licensed financial institutions.

Earlier, Tether committed $150 million to Gold.com, a direct-to-consumer digital marketplace.

The pattern is becoming clearer: payment rails, liquidity efficiency, and infrastructure that reduces fragmentation.

The LayerZero investment fits neatly into that framework. Tether is positioning stablecoins not merely as transferable assets, but as global settlement instruments.

The Bigger Picture

LayerZero now supports one of the most widely adopted bridging frameworks in the market. Tether’s move signals that interoperability is no longer experimental — it’s production-grade infrastructure. The investment size wasn’t disclosed.

But the message is clear: USDT’s future won’t live on a single chain. And this time, it’s not about price. The rails are being laid.

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The founder and chief executive officer of LayerZero, a system that facilitates direct communication between several blockchains, Bryan Pellegrino, indicated that just 6% to 13% of addresses are genuine and will be eligible for the airdrop.

Within the information that he provided over Telegram, Pellegrino made use of the following statements:

“It is possible to estimate that only between 400 and 800 thousand of the 6 million addresses are genuine, taking into account the fact that almost half of the addresses only completed a single transaction. The exact percentage of people who will be eligible for the airdrop is anywhere between 6.67 and 13.33 percent.”

A further piece of information that Pellegrino had lately received was that personnel of LayerZero Labs would not be eligible for any kind of airdrop in any fashion.

Since the first of May, LayerZero Labs has been collecting screenshots for use in airdrops.

LayerZero makes it possible for users and decentralized applications (DApps) to store their assets and data on different blockchains in a seamless manner and then move them to other networks.

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The CEO of LayerZero Labs, Pellegrino, commented on X that the company “will announce something publicly about this; every LayerZero Labs employee is 100% restricted from claiming and has no eligibility.”

“It will be a fireable offense and has been announced internally for some time and has always been the case,” he added.

The goal of the interoperability protocol LayerZero is to enable developers to create cross-chain apps with modular security parameters. The protocol’s primary contributor is LayerZero Labs.

Pellegrino stated unequivocally that “they cannot claim them” in answer to more inquiries questioning the prospect that employees would be eligible to obtain LayerZero tokens for the possession of non-fungible tokens from particular NFT collections, such as Pudgy Penguins.

In an effort to make it easier to conduct a larger airdrop, the project offered users who were Sybil farming the protocol earlier this month the option to self-report in exchange for “15% of their intended allocation” or risk having their risk completely erased.

On May 1, Labs finished the first snapshot for the possible airdrop.

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