Agora Atlas
Agora operates a stablecoin and digital-dollar infrastructure platform for financial institutions and enterprises.
Founded
2023Agora operates a stablecoin and digital-dollar infrastructure platform for financial institutions and enterprises.
Agora operates a stablecoin and digital-dollar infrastructure platform centered on AUSD, a US-dollar-backed stablecoin minted one-to-one with USD fiat and backed by a reserve of cash, repurchase agreements, and short-term US Treasury securities. Reserve assets are managed by VanEck with custody and administration by State Street.
The platform also includes white-label stablecoin issuance, instant liquidity that mints AUSD against USDC and USDT, and cross-chain bridging through the LayerZero OFT standard, serving financial institutions, fintechs, trading firms, and global enterprises.
Agora is pursuing a stablecoin market that is shifting from crypto-native trading toward enterprise payroll, business-to-business, and cross-border payments, where pre-funding and transaction costs constrain corporate margins. Its leadership expects traditional firms to adopt stablecoins as settlement and treasury infrastructure consolidates around a handful of corporate-controlled chains.
The company aims to become a top-five global stablecoin issuer by building tools that feel like bank accounts rather than crypto wallets, targeting multinational firms with global vendor networks as the earliest enterprise adopters.
Agora positions AUSD as a credibly neutral stablecoin whose issuer deliberately does not compete with its partners' end businesses, an open partnership model intended to attract fintechs and enterprises wary of competing issuers. Its reserve management by VanEck and custody by State Street provide institutional-grade credibility for regulated counterparties.
The company's single-stablecoin focus and pursuit of an OCC national trust bank charter are designed to offer a compliant, scalable digital-dollar rail for payment, settlement, and treasury use across global enterprises.