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We’ve got an interoperability story today on Lightspeed. The third-largest native Tether ecosystem, USDT0, is integrating Solana. Meanwhile, MetaDAO’s second ICO in a week has reached oversubscribed commitments in just a day.

USDT0 Legacy Mesh integrates Solana

The omnichain liquidity network for Tether assets “USDT0” is integrating Solana today.

USDT0’s “Legacy Mesh”, the company’s cross-chain liquidity layer, is built to link legacy USDT deployments with the USDT0 omnichain ecosystem.

Solana already enjoys native USDT. The key unlock here lies in native interoperability between Solana and other major blockchains for USDT and XAUt0 (the omnichain variant of Tether Gold), potentially catalyzing net inflows into Solana.

The integration opens pipelines for Solana to more than $169 billion of circulating USDT from other major chains like Ethereum, Tron and TON, per its press release.

Total USDT supply on Solana today is about $2.7 billion, according to Blockworks Research data.

Tamar Menteshashvili, head of stablecoins at the Solana Foundation said: “The launch of Legacy Mesh delivers the fastest and most cost-efficient access for USDT holders” to Solana, adding that XAUt0 brings the same “programmable, composable utility for gold.”

Backed by more than 7.66 tons of gold, Tether’s XAUT tokenized gold has a total onchain supply of 246,524, based on its Q2 2025 attestation report.

USDT0 is developed and managed by Everdawn Labs. While not directly affiliated with Tether, USDT0 is widely aligned with Tether’s aims: consolidating fragmented USDT liquidity and bringing all “legacy mints” under its hub-and-spoke Legacy Mesh network. This keeps a single canonical supply of USDT or XAUt across chains and reduces wrapped look-alike token confusion, while also avoiding third-party bridging risks.

The recently launched Plasma stablecoin chain, for instance, leverages USDT0 as its native liquidity rail and default stablecoin standard to offer zero-fee USDT transfers.

“At USDT0, our focus has always been on creating infrastructure that feels invisible to the enduser, where moving value is as seamless as sending an email,” said Lorenzo R., co-founder of USDT0.

“With Solana, we’re extending that promise beyond DeFi into payments, enterprise finance and real-world asset markets.”

USDT0 has facilitated at least $17.3 billion in lifetime bridged volumes across nine chains, making it one of the most active omnichain token deployments in the LayerZero ecosystem.

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