Anchorage Digital company
Overview
Anchorage Digital is a US digital-asset custody, trading and settlement platform for institutions, founded in 2017 by Diogo Monica and Nathan McCauley and headquartered in San Francisco. Its regulated entity, Anchorage Digital Bank, received a national trust bank charter from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in 2021, making it the first federally chartered cryptocurrency bank in the United States. The firm safeguards assets using hardware security modules and biometric authentication rather than paper key material, and layers lending, trading and staking infrastructure on top of custody. Clients include financial institutions, venture capital firms, fintechs and governments; in 2021 the US Department of Justice contracted Anchorage to custody criminally seized digital assets. Backers have included Andreessen Horowitz and Blockchain Capital early on, with a December 2021 round drawing KKR, Goldman Sachs, GIC and Wellington Management. Its valuation reached about $3 billion in 2022, and a $100 million investment from Tether in February 2026 lifted it to roughly $4.2 billion. Anchorage was founded in 2017 and won its OCC national trust charter in 2021, the milestone that still defines its regulatory position. Also in 2021 it became the first US bank to custody an NFT, in connection with a Visa purchase, and it opened a Singapore office in 2022 to expand into Asia. The February 2026 Tether investment was its most recent reported capital event.
Within the DeFi Intel graph, Anchorage Digital connects to 74 tracked entities, most strongly to BlackRock, Tether, Tether.
Relations
Top connections in the DeFi Intel knowledge graph (confidence-weighted, 10 of 74 total).
| Relation | Connected entity | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
partnered_with | BlackRock | 95% |
investor | Tether | 95% |
issuer_relationship | Tether | 95% |
acquired_executive_from | Coinbase Custody | 95% |
holds_license | OCC | 95% |
acquired | Mountain Protocol | 95% |
acquired_by | Mountain Protocol | 95% |
invested_in | KKR | 95% |
funded_by | KKR | 95% |
raised_by | Anchorage Digital Series D | 95% |
Frequently asked questions
What is Anchorage Digital?
Anchorage Digital is a custody_bank tracked in the DeFi Intel knowledge graph. It is connected to 74 other tracked entities, most strongly to BlackRock, Tether, Tether.
What type of entity is Anchorage Digital?
Anchorage Digital is classified as a custody_bank (company) in the DeFi Intel knowledge graph.
What is Anchorage Digital connected to?
In the DeFi Intel knowledge graph, Anchorage Digital is linked to 74 other tracked entities, most strongly to BlackRock, Tether, Tether.
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