USD.AI Launches on Arbitrum, Rolls Out AutoVaults

USD.AI, a digital dollar that earns yield from AI infrastructure, goes live with AutoVaults in collaboration with leading DeFi partners, expanding capital access, liquidity, and rewards onchain

NEW YORK – USD.AI, the stablecoin scaling AI infrastructure, has launched publicly on Arbitrum. With over $50 million in deposits during its private beta, the public launch introduces broader access to deposits, the Allo Rewards program, and the rollout of AutoVaults, a set of boosted-yield strategies built with leading DeFi partners like Pendle, Concrete, Euler, and K3 Capital.

Built for a growing class of underserved AI builders, USD.AI enables infrastructure operators to post tokenized hardware, like GPUs, as onchain collateral. This unlocks a powerful loop: emerging AI builders access flexible capital to grow their operations, while depositors earn sustainable yield backed by real, revenue-generating GPU hardware.

The public launch introduces the Allo Rewards program, which distributes points to users who deposit, stake, or provide liquidity across the USD.AI ecosystem. Participants in the Allo Rewards program will be able to access ICO round at the latest valuation or get an airdrop. Allo Rewards are going to be integrated with Pendle so that users can tokenize, and trade on their airdrop or ICO allocation from the Allo Rewards Program.

Complementing this, the AutoVaults represent USD.AI’s advanced DeFi product, designed to offer boosted incentives and deeper capital efficiency. Curated by K3 Capital, the institutional DeFi arm of Nexo Capital, the AutoVaults will surface boosted yield strategies utilizing USDai, sUSDai, USDe, and USDC assets. Concrete will also contribute to the AutoVaults, by setting up vaults that will provide secure, automated yield strategies and derivatives capabilities, enabling vault users to maximize returns, borrow without liquidation, and trade risk across assets.

This launch is backed by a grant provided by the Arbitrum Foundation. “InfraFi marks a new chapter for the RWA ecosystem,” said A.J. Warner, Chief Strategy Officer at Offchain Labs. “USD.AI is a strong example of how DeFi can help close critical financing gaps. We’re proud to support USD.AI in introducing a more capital-efficient model for AI infrastructure onchain.”

At the core of these vaults is USD.AI’s integration with Euler, an intent-based DEX where users can earn yield while supporting deep, low-slippage liquidity for credit-backed stable pairs like USDai and sUSDai. “USD.AI is solving a clear need in the market,” said Antoine Loth, Chief Growth Officer at Euler Labs. “By pairing structured credit assets with a next-gen liquidity engine like Euler, we’re helping shape the future of stable asset markets onchain.”

Vaults are managed by K3 Capital, whose team structures and optimizes strategies for yield generation and capital preservation. “As traditional finance continues to funnel billions into supporting AI growth, USD.AI is pioneering a more transparent, accessible model merging DeFi’s capital layer with core AI hardware,” said Kiril Nikolov, Co-Founder of K3 Capital. “AutoVaults bring institutional structure to a rapidly evolving market, and we’re proud to help bring it to life.”

While firms like CoreWeave raise billions offchain from Wall Street, most emerging AI builders remain overlooked. USD.AI exists to level the playing field, by financing long tail AI builders, turning infrastructure into programmable collateral, and building a credit layer for core infrastructure that is powering the networks of tomorrow.

“USD.AI is solving a real bottleneck to AI growth, while creating a new source of yield for depositors,” said David Choi, CEO and Co-Founder of USD.AI. “AI operators can now access faster, global, non-dilutive loans, and depositors can earn sustainable yield, with full composability across DeFi for additional liquidity, rewards, and utility. We’re building InfraFi: a system where capital scales the networks of tomorrow, and DeFi becomes the financing layer that makes it possible.”

USD.AI is now live on Arbitrum, with vault access, live incentives, and integrations available.

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About USD.AI

Through its USDai and sUSDai dollar offerings, USD.AI is the on-chain credit layer for AI infrastructure, providing asset-backed loans to the long tail of AI builders. Using GPU hardware as collateral, USD.AI’s programmatic lending platform delivers fast, transparent, and scalable financing without the complexity of traditional credit markets. By combining DeFi principles with institutional-grade risk management, USD.AI enables AI companies of all sizes to access the capital they need to deploy and expand compute capacity.

Arbitrum Foundation

The Arbitrum Foundation, founded in March 2023, supports and grows the Arbitrum network and its community with secure scaling solutions for Ethereum. Arbitrum One, a leading Ethereum Layer-2 scaling solution initially developed by Offchain Labs, offers ultra-fast, low-cost transactions with security derived from Ethereum through Optimistic Rollup technology. Launched in August 2021, the Arbitrum One mainnet beta is EVM-compatible at the bytecode level. Thousands of DeFi and NFT projects are live in the ecosystem to date. In August 2022, Arbitrum One upgraded to Nitro tech stack, enabling fraud proofs over the core engine of Geth compiled to WASM.