10 February, 2026 – Tether Investments today announced a strategic investment in LayerZero Labs, the development company behind interoperability protocol, reflecting its support for the development of proven, production-grade interoperability infrastructure used across the global digital asset ecosystem.
Combined with the Wallet Development Kit (WDK) by Tether, this infrastructure provides the most advanced foundational rail for digital assets payments, settlements, and custody for real-world use cases, and is also perfected for agentic finance, allowing AI agents to operate their own autonomous wallets and frictionlessly transact with stablecoins and digital assets at scale.
LayerZero Labs is the creator of one of the most widely adopted bridging frameworks in the market today, providing the underlying technology that enables digital assets to move securely and efficiently across blockchains. Over the past year, LayerZero’s interoperability infrastructure has been leveraged by Everdawn Labs to develop and bring to market USDt0 and XAUt0, enabling large-scale cross-chain value movement under live market conditions.
Built on LayerZero’s Omnichain Fungible Token standard, these implementations demonstrated that stablecoins and tokenized assets can move seamlessly across blockchains without fragmentation or loss of liquidity. Since launch, USDt0 has facilitated more than $70 billion in cross-chain value transfer in under twelve months, serving as real-world proof of global-scale interoperability and validating LayerZero Labs’ technology as critical infrastructure supporting major assets.
The investment reflects Tether’s confidence in LayerZero Labs’ engineering capabilities, execution track record, and its role in advancing interoperability as foundational infrastructure. It aligns with Tether’s broader strategy of supporting systems that reduce fragmentation, improve liquidity efficiency, and enable stablecoins to function as global settlement instruments across multiple diverse blockchain environments.
“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.”
“Tether is a company the world envies. They have turned a vision of borderless money into a reality,” said Bryan Pellegrino, CEO of LayerZero. “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.”
About Tether Investments
Tether Investments is the independent investment arm of Tether, the largest company in the digital assets industry. Based in El Salvador, the firm deploys capital from Tether’s profits and excess reserves across a wide range of sectors where technology, infrastructure, and real-world utility intersect.
Its portfolio includes investments in artificial intelligence, financial services, energy, biotechnology, education, and digital media, as well as strategic stakes in industries such as commodities, remittances, and sports and entertainment. Tether Investments supports ventures with long-term potential to improve access, efficiency, and resilience in both emerging and developed markets. Its work supports Tether Group’s broader mission to strengthen decentralized systems, promote infrastructure resilience, and expand real-world access to open, transparent technologies.
