Agora Partners with LayerZero to Make AUSD Stablecoin Compatible with All Blockchains

Today, AUSD, Agora’s digital dollar, now supports LayerZero’s OFT standard to launch AUSD0 – making its trusted, institutional-first digital dollar available to millions of new users and thousands of new applications, starting with five blockchains.

AUSD0 Makes Agora Compatible With Every Blockchain

Agora, co-founded by Nick van Eck, Drake Evans and Joe McGrady, recognized early that institutional credibility is paramount to adoption. Unlike traditional stablecoins, AUSD generates yield from its Treasury-backed reserves, creating revenue streams that flow directly to merchant partners rather than being captured solely by the issuer. This partner-first philosophy has driven rapid adoption, with AUSD growing from zero to over $170 million in circulation across multiple blockchain ecosystems.

AUSD0 simply extends Agora's institutional-grade digital dollar from isolated deployments to a global supply that can potentially move and exist across 140+ LayerZero-connected chains. It allows Agora to focus on distribution on the chain, while LayerZero handles the connectivity at the technology level that makes AUSD compatible with any type of digital ledger. 

For users, businesses, and merchants of AUSD, nothing changes except for more chain choice. When anyone uses AUSD0, they are accessing the same institutional-grade asset they trust in AUSD on the chain of their choice.

"Partnering with LayerZero on AUSD and AUSD0 was a natural fit.  This enables seamless cross-chain transfers for our natively issued AUSD, and enables us to capture emerging ecosystems faster through AUSD0. Giving us back the time to double down on our infrastructure and product roadmap."

 — Nick van Eck, CEO and Co-Founder, Agora

Agora’s Yield Sharing Strategy Is Now Ready to Compete Everywhere in Crypto

The race to build tomorrow's monetary infrastructure is accelerating. Those who create the most trusted, yield-bearing digital dollar will shape how commerce flows across the internet.

Agora lets companies launch branded stablecoins using AUSD's underlying infrastructure - allowing them to tap into AUSD’s shared liquidity and interoperability that becomes significantly more powerful with AUSD0's cross-chain capabilities.

Treasury yields should power the internet economy, and AUSD0 is the distribution engine for this vision. It enables everyone to access Treasury-backed yield generation and liquidity sharing regardless of which blockchain they choose to build on. 

AUSD0 allows Agora to quickly enter and dominate newer markets that demand stablecoins – giving new chains access to a stablecoin backed by the $147.6 billion asset manager VanEck and $49 trillion custodian State Street. The credibility gap between crypto and institutions bridges overnight.

This also enables businesses to tap into revenue sharing from treasury yield from AUSD reserves on all LayerZero-connected chains, allowing them to reduce fees or distribute rewards to users regardless of which chain they operate on.

"Interop at this point is just becoming the de facto distribution mechanism for assets, giving teams like Agora the ability to bring tokenized dollars to lots of new users and differentiated apps and merchants. Bringing Agora to more chains only makes it cheaper and easier to move tokenized dollars and for partners of theirs to create chain-specific white labeled stablecoins backed by AUSD, which is awesome – especially because all of this runs on code instead of business hours."

 — Bryan Pellegrino, CEO of LayerZero Labs

Conclusion

TradFi’s smartest money believes blockchains will become primary venues for commerce. AUSD0 realises this vision, and their non-custodial digital dollar pioneers  the first  open model framework to generate yield that flows back to all of the partner merchants who drive volume.

This creates a self-reinforcing flywheel that benefits everyone: chains gain instant access to Treasury yield revenue streams while offering developers a day-one institutional-grade stablecoin, attracting users and generating more AUSD volume that produces even greater yield returns.

While other traditional finance giants are busy debating the future of finance, Agora, VanEck, and State Street are already building the infrastructure that will power it. 

This conviction - a bet that programmable money that moves everywhere wins - might be the strongest signal yet that the future of finance is being written on-chain, and is only possible on LayerZero.