USDai and sUSDai expand to Solana with cross-chain transfers via OFT
USD.AI has brought its GPU-backed stablecoin and yield-bearing token to Solana, with $9.39 million in sUSDai bridged within hours of launch.
USD.AI has expanded its two core tokens, USDai and yield-bearing sUSDai, to Solana through the Omnichain Fungible Token (OFT) standard. The rollout gives users a way to move the assets between EVM-compatible networks and Solana while retaining their native token identity across chains.
Solana Launch Brings Early Activity
The deployment went live on September 24, 2026, at approximately 17:52 UTC. Within hours, about 8.43 million sUSDai, valued at roughly $9.39 million, had moved to Solana. The token also recorded approximately $372,000 in decentralized exchange trading volume during its first 24 hours.
OFT enables a token to transfer between supported blockchains without arriving as a separate, unofficial wrapped version. Before this deployment, USDai and sUSDai were available only on EVM-compatible chains, where USD.AI already used LayerZero for cross-chain transfers. Solana’s non-EVM architecture required the protocol to extend its infrastructure beyond that environment.
The initial Solana integrations include six DeFi protocols:
- Jupiter Lend and Kamino for lending activity
- Orca for decentralized exchange liquidity and trading
- Loopscale, Exponent, and Mezzanine for additional DeFi and fixed-rate market access
A portion of the bridged sUSDai has already been deposited across Kamino, Jupiter Lend, and Orca, giving holders immediate options to lend assets, provide liquidity, or trade on Solana-based venues.
Stablecoins Backed by GPU Credit
The expansion connects Solana users to USD.AI’s credit system, which lends to artificial-intelligence infrastructure operators. Those loans are secured by GPU hardware used for model training and inference, making the tokens’ underlying economics dependent on the performance of the AI infrastructure market.
The protocol’s loan book exceeds $280 million across 16 facilities. Its largest listed facility totals $128.9 million and is backed by 2,304 NVIDIA GB200 GPUs. That facility represents a substantial portion of the overall book, meaning its repayment performance has an outsized effect on the system’s credit exposure.
What This Means
The first-day figures indicate meaningful initial demand for bringing sUSDai to Solana, even though the bridged amount and trading volume remain small compared with the protocol’s loan book. The move gives holders greater venue choice and places a yield-bearing, AI-linked asset inside one of the largest DeFi ecosystems outside the EVM world.
However, Solana availability does not remove the underlying risks. sUSDai yield remains tied to repayments from GPU-backed borrowers, while cross-chain transfers depend on the messaging infrastructure supporting OFT. Users should verify official token addresses before transacting, particularly during the early stages of a multichain launch.