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# Notes for Stargate and LZ Team

Q: How does the Omnichain standard announcement by Circle/USDC affect Stargate?
    a: OFT seems to remove the need for Stargate USDC liquidity pools, as bridging can now be done with zero slippage through burn/mint mechanism - does the team agree?
    b: Is Circle planning to migrate existing USDC to OFT standard?
    c: If the team agrees, are there plans for other stablecoins currently listed on Stargate to move to OFT standard?
    
Q: If more stablecoins move to using OFTs what purpose/need will Stargate serve going forward? What reasons would integrators have to use Stargate beyond integrating based on L0 themselves?

Q: Some community members have expressed the concern that the pattern so far is to prioritise LayerZero often at the cost of Stargate, as the impact of this announcement of Stargate wasn't addressed before the OFT announcement and the team was essentially unreachable for a period after. If LayerZero is working to help other crosschain liquidity platforms and doesn't take stargate into account when making announcements, is there a future for the project?

Q: Will integrations and addition of other assets be feasibly able to replace the lost volume due to USDC switching to an OFT?

Q: That the API messaging calls to the layer zero endpoint explicitly accepts a ZRO parameter, our understanding is that ZRO is a layer zero token that is yet to be developed which can be used to pay layer zero fees. Given the concerns expressed with the OFT standard and stargatr, how does the team see the relationship between the STG token and the ZRO token

Q: When bridging 100 OFT tokens, does it burn 100 tokens in the source chain and then mint 100 tokens in the destination chain ? right ?

Q: Primo said.
"OFT has always been a possibility, especially as an interface for general asset movement, and there are tons of ways Stargate could gain traction from this model."
"... So there is value in the interface layer for developers and also in the ui layer for users."
Please more elaborate about Stargate's new OFT adoption.



