Anchorage Digital Taps LayerZero To Take USAT Stablecoin Cross-Chain

TL;DR Anchorage Digital has selected LayerZero as its interoperability partner for regulated stablecoins issued through its platform. Tether’s USAT is the first token to adopt the LayerZero OFT standard under the arrangement. LayerZero supports connectivity across more than 170 networks, but not every Anchorage-issued stablecoin is live across every chain today. Anchorage Digital is putting cross-chain infrastructure directly into its regulated stablecoin stack. The federally chartered digital-asset bank has selected LayerZero as its interoperability partner, using the Omnichain Fungible Token standard to move supported stablecoins between blockchain networks. The first asset through the door is USAT. USAT Becomes The First Live Integration Tether’s USAT, issued through Anchorage Digital Bank, is the first stablecoin on the platform to use the LayerZero standard. LayerZero’s infrastructure supports more than 170 blockchain networks, giving Anchorage a broad technical base for moving regulated dollar tokens across different execution environments without creating separate isolated versions for every chain. That matters because stablecoin fragmentation has become a practical problem....