Tether, issuer of the world’s largest stablecoin, is on the warpath when it comes to diversification. The company has announced multiple new investments in other firms.
Tether Investments is an independent investment arm of Tether. Based in El Salvador, the firm deploys Tether’s profits and excess reserves across a range of sectors.
It has been reported that Tether generated profits exceeded $10 billion during 2025, with total assets reaching a high of $193 billion and excess reserves growing to $6.3 billion
Today, Tether announced it has completed a strategic investment in LayerZero Labs, the development company behind the protocol used by USDt0 and XAUt0, both stablecoins issued by Tether.
The company packaged the investment as showing Tether’s commitment to AI innovation and its leading role in shaping the agentic AI economy.
LayerZero’s Omnichain Fungible Token standard is said be able to seamlessly move 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. This includes both stablecoins and other tokenized assets.
Tether explains that it has a strategy of supporting systems that reduce fragmentation, improve liquidity efficiency, and enable stablecoins to function as global settlement instruments across diverse blockchain environments.
Paolo Ardoino, CEO of Tether, said that LayerZero Labs enables digital assets to be transferred in real-time across any transport layer and distributed ledger.
“This enables digital assets to serve the infinite agentic AI economy that will require such primitives to orchestrate micro-payments at an unprecedented scale.”
