# Anchorage Digital

> Anchorage Digital is an institutional crypto platform built around a rare asset: a U.S. federal bank charter. It combines qualified custody with trading, staking, governance, settlement, stablecoin issuance, wealth-management infrastructure and the Porto self-custody wallet, selling regulated access and operational control to banks, asset managers, protocols, corporations, governments and financial advisers.

- **Founded:** 2017
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Nathan McCauley (Co-founder and CEO), Diogo Mónica (Co-founder and President)
- **Team size:** Approximately 770 employees, based on the supplied company-data estimate.
- **Products:** Institutional custody, Trading and financing, Staking and governance, Atlas settlement network, Porto
- **Notable:** Became the first federally chartered crypto bank in the United States in January 2021 through conditional OCC approval., Reached a $3 billion valuation in its $350 million Series D in December 2021., Facilitated custody of the CryptoPunk acquired by Visa in 2021, an early institutional NFT custody milestone.

## Products & services

- **Institutional custody** — Qualified custody for digital assets and fiat, using offline hardware security modules, biometric approvals, policy controls, behavioral analytics, segregated keys, reporting and APIs.
- **Trading and financing** — Institutional execution, liquidity access and financing connected to regulated custody, with controls intended to reduce operational and counterparty risk.
- **Staking and governance** — In-custody participation in proof-of-stake rewards and blockchain governance without requiring clients to move assets into a separate wallet workflow.
- **Atlas settlement network** — A ring-fenced network for spot settlement, coordinated multiparty settlement and collateral management across crypto and fiat, with assets remaining segregated and verifiable onchain.
- **Porto** — A subscription-priced institutional self-custody wallet for DeFi, swaps, staking, voting and arbitrary smart-contract interactions, with quorum approvals and HSM-backed key security.
- **Stablecoin issuance** — Federally regulated minting, redemption, reserve management, custody and lifecycle infrastructure for branded U.S. dollar stablecoins including USDtb, USA₮, USDGO and USDPT.
- **Wealth management** — An integrated stack for RIAs, broker-dealers and banks that connects client experience, trading, custody, portfolio management, billing and reporting.
- **Build With Anchorage Digital** — APIs and implementation support for institutions embedding custody, trading, staking and settlement into their own products.
- **Agentic Banking** — Infrastructure designed to apply identity, policy, governance, compliance and settlement controls when AI agents interact with capital.

## Achievements

- Became the first federally chartered crypto bank in the United States in January 2021 through conditional OCC approval.
- Reached a $3 billion valuation in its $350 million Series D in December 2021.
- Facilitated custody of the CryptoPunk acquired by Visa in 2021, an early institutional NFT custody milestone.
- Obtained a Major Payment Institution license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore for its Singapore entity.
- Received a New York BitLicense for Anchorage Digital NY.
- Completed SOC 1 and SOC 2 Type II examinations for its control environment.
- Had the OCC terminate its 2022 consent order in August 2025 after remediation.
- Launched federally regulated U.S. stablecoin issuance infrastructure in 2025.
- Secured a $100 million strategic investment from Tether at a $4.2 billion valuation in 2026.
- Expanded into integrated wealth management by acquiring Securitize For Advisors in 2026.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Launched Agentic Banking and expanded its Google Cloud partnership to connect governed AI-agent workflows with regulated capital and settlement rails.
- **2026-08** — Acquired Securitize For Advisors, adding an RIA-facing client experience to Anchorage Digital's custody and trading platform.
- **2026-07** — Began providing custody and treasury infrastructure for the Linework onchain financial-services network.
- **2026-05** — Western Union's USDPT stablecoin, issued by Anchorage Digital Bank on Solana, went live.
- **2026-02** — Tether made a $100 million strategic equity investment at a $4.2 billion valuation; Anchorage also announced its first employee tender offer.
- **2025-08** — The OCC terminated the consent order imposed in 2022, formally ending the enforcement action.
- **2025-07** — Launched a stablecoin issuance platform after passage of the GENIUS Act.

## Links

- Website: https://www.anchorage.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/anchorage
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/Anchorage
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AnchorageDigital
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/anchoragedigital

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Last updated: 2026-08-14