A new era for money
Money is changing. For millennia, we’ve built systems to move value (from shells to coinage to fiat, from tables to databases to APIs). Every era carried similar constraints: differing financial regimes, slow settlement, and intermediaries.
Now, value can move at the speed of light. Blockchains introduced open, global standards and instant settlement. As the onchain market has taken off, assets have struggled with interoperability between liquidity silos unable to move freely across the multi-chain world.
That changes today. Agora has adopted LayerZero’s OFT standard to connect AUSD across all its deployments, starting with Monad. This upgrade enables Agora to turn what was once isolated liquidity silos, into a unified liquidity network.
“The future of money is being built in real time,” said Bryan Pellegrino, CEO of LayerZero Labs. “For the first time, dollars can move natively and instantly across multiple blockchains. This is what interoperability was always meant to enable: a financial internet where value moves as freely as information.”
Why we built AUSD
AUSD was designed for one purpose: to bring trusted, enterprise-grade money to the onchain economy.
What makes AUSD different:
- Fully backed, 1:1 reserves. AUSD is backed by cash, short-term U.S. Treasuries, and overnight repos.
- Institutional management. Reserves are managed by top financial partners, including VanEck and State Street.
- White-label platform. Enterprises can issue branded stablecoins on Agora’s infrastructure, instantly interoperable with AUSD’s network.
In short: AUSD is not just a tokenized dollar. It’s a foundation for how digital value moves — reliable enough for institutions, flexible enough for the open internet. Tap in.
Why borderless onchain matters
Stablecoins remove friction.
Yet, onchain assets are trapped on single chains by default. Splitting liquidity and forcing developers and users into silos. The onchain economy lives across ecosystems — Ethereum, Solana, Avalanche, Monad, and dozens of others.
To serve this new world, stable value must flow across all chains like information — instantly, securely, and at no cost. That’s what borderless money means.
“We’re building the next generation of the financial infrastructure layer,” said Nick van Eck, CEO of Agora. “For the first time, we have technology that can make money global, liquid, and programmable at once. The future of the dollar isn’t in one country or one chain: it’s in the network that connects them. We love watching it come to life.”
From stranded to connected: AUSD × LayerZero
AUSD is a programmable dollar. Ubiquity in the onchain economy requires standardization across blockchains.
This is why we have integrated LayerZero, the leading interoperability protocol. Through LayerZero’s OFT Standard, a smart contract standardizing token issuance and movement across 150+ blockchains, Agora will connect native AUSD deployments into a single, unified supply.
What this means:
- Cheap value transfer. AUSD now moves 1:1 between chains with zero slippage. Send 1 AUSD or send 1,000,000 AUSD and only pay gas fees, do not pay for transaction size.
- Native liquidity. Each blockchain has a native AUSD supply that is compatible with the smart contract language of the blockchain itself.
- Composability unlocked. Apps on one chain can interact with the same AUSD supply as those on another. Users can treat AUSD 1:1 across all blockchains.
- Operational sovereignty. LayerZero is immutable yet configurable. This means we own our deployments and choose the verification options and own the smart contracts for AUSD, making AUSD reliant on nobody but ourselves while getting the reach of every blockchain.
In essence, every AUSD token — across all connected blockchains — is now part of the same system.
Monad: The First AUSD OFT Upgrade
Monad represents the next major milestone — the completion of AUSD’s initial deployment. Monad’s high-performance EVM-compatible design makes it an ideal network for global-scale applications and high-velocity stablecoin use. Once live and fully upgraded to the OFT standard, AUSD will be connected into a single unified mesh, covering nearly every major blockchain.
With Monad integrated, the borderless dollar becomes a reality — a stablecoin that can move instantly and trustlessly across nearly every major chain.
Conclusion
The way money moves defines the way economies grow. Stablecoins represent the next leap — turning the dollar into programmable, composable software that can move anywhere instantly.
The integration of LayerZero is a major unlock for AUSD, making it competitive everywhere that matters. Agora’s move towards a borderless dollar unlocks a new phase of usability and reach for stable value.
Money that moves like the internet — the promise of AUSD.