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Agora Dollar (AUSD) is Agora Finance's U.S.-dollar stablecoin. Agora says it is minted 1:1 with USD fiat and designed as an institutional-grade, freely tradable digital dollar for payments, settlement, on/off-ramps, and trading across networks.

AUSD is presented as a reserve-backed token rather than an algorithmic or crypto-collateralized asset. Agora states that it is backed 100% by the Agora Reserve Fund, whose stated assets include cash, overnight repurchase and reverse-repurchase agreements, and short-term U.S. Treasury securities.

The product is aimed particularly at enterprises, fintechs, trading firms, and other platform partners. Agora describes a partner model in which businesses can use AUSD infrastructure and potentially earn on stablecoin balances held across their platforms. The homepage currently reports 200M+ total circulating supply, 15 active networks, 45B+ in asset transfer volume, and 17M+ transfers; these are company-reported, time-sensitive metrics.

Conventional international money movement is fragmented, slow, expensive, and difficult to integrate across banking and blockchain rails. Stablecoins can provide internet-native settlement, but businesses still need reliable reserves, liquidity, chain interoperability, compliance controls, and operational support.

AUSD addresses this infrastructure gap by combining a transferable token with institutional custody and asset-management relationships. Agora says cash is custodied and the fund administered by State Street, while assets are managed by VanEck, and positions AUSD as neutral infrastructure that does not compete with its customers.

The model also has important trust and centralization trade-offs. Authorized roles can mint and burn, pause functions, freeze assets, and upgrade the implementation. Those controls support compliance and incident response, but users must trust Agora's governance, reserve arrangements, custodians, attestations, and operational security; AUSD is not permissionless in the same sense as a purely decentralized token.

On EVM networks, AUSD is an upgradeable ERC-20 token with six decimals. The contract architecture includes privileged minting and burning, role-based access control, pausing, and freezing. The documented roles are Admin, Pauser, Freezer, Minter, and Burner; the Admin can manage roles and upgrade the implementation, while Minters and Burners control supply changes.

The token supports EIP-712 typed-data signing and ERC-1271 contract-wallet signature validation. ERC-2612 permits let an approval be authorized by an off-chain signature, and ERC-3009 supports signed gasless transfers, reducing the need for a sender to hold the chain's native gas token.

AUSD is deployed across multiple EVM networks with the same mainnet address, including Ethereum, Arbitrum, Avalanche C-Chain, Base, Immutable, Katana, Mantle, Monad, and Polygon PoS. Agora also publishes a Solana Token-2022 mint. Solana's documented extensions include mint-close authority, a permanent delegate, a transfer hook, metadata, and confidential transfers.

At the reserve layer, Agora states that each AUSD is matched 1:1 by reserve assets. At the product layer, Agora advertises instant 24/7 redemption or swapping and has introduced Instant Liquidity, which atomically mints AUSD against USDC and USDT for verified users. Availability and eligibility can depend on the specific route, network, and compliance requirements.