Anchorage Digital Launches New Initiative for Building Crypto Products and Services

Today, we are pleased to roll out “Build With Anchorage Digital,” a new full-stack infrastructure offering that facilitates crypto payment gateways, financial products, and market participation. All of these services come with the added benefit of our operational national bank charter and  world-class security solution, and today we reveal what we’ve been quietly building with a variety of early partners to illustrate the many ways fintechs to registered investment advisors are building with Anchorage Digital. As more institutions realize the power of Anchorage Digital’s APIs, we see today as the beginning of much larger crypto services expansion for companies outside the crypto industry itself.

APIs for Every Business

Build With Anchorage Digital fuels partner product and service development through a combination of our flexible APIs—which partners can connect to programmatically, including trading, settlement, staking, and custody APIs—and a dedicated team of industry-leading solution architects, integration engineers, and deployment strategists.

With the offering, Anchorage Digital fully embeds every part of the crypto product life cycle, from idea to implementation to meet clients’ goals. The hands-on partnership with Anchorage Digital allows clients to design and test their own bespoke crypto solutions, bring them to market, and plan for their long-term compliance needs post-rollout. We have been building with major partners in banking, fintech, and financial services to power their crypto businesses.

“Five years ago, Anchorage Digital was forged by the demand for secure crypto custody by institutional clients. Security is in our DNA, and we’ve built that layer into every use case we’re announcing today. Today’s financial services institutions not only want to custody their own crypto balance sheets with us, they want to offer crypto products to their customers or use crypto in novel ways. ‘Build With Anchorage Digital’ enables them to tap into the crypto economy. They see what we see: Every business will be a crypto business.”

—Diogo Mónica, Co-Founder and President of Anchorage Digital

As the first federally chartered digital asset bank in the U.S., Anchorage Digital has unparalleled experience with navigating the regulatory requirements and hurdles institutions face when looking to tap into the vast market potential of crypto. That makes us uniquely positioned to not only design crypto products, but ensure that they meet the heightened scrutiny of entering the industry.

Crypto Payment Gateways

Fintechs, payment companies, and banking cores select Anchorage Digital for tailored ways to bring crypto payments to their existing infrastructures.

Innovative fintechs including AngelList and Series Financial have selected Anchorage Digital to automate and integrate crypto services into their platforms. In August, we announced a partnership with AngelList to offer early-stage funding via the USDC stablecoin.

“Anchorage Digital’s infrastructure helps us implement USDC alongside fiat as a platform-wide option for early-stage investors—and that’s just the beginning for use cases on our platform.”

—Avlok Kohli, CEO, AngelList

Anchorage Digital APIs provide digital asset custody and trading services to SeriesFi’s institutional customers, helping SeriesFi expand their client offerings.

“As a Qualified Custodian, Anchorage Digital allows us to offer our customers compliant and regulated custody solutions, integrated directly into their banking.”

—Brexton Pham, CEO, Series Financial

Banking cores provide the infrastructure technology for bank customers to access easy-to-use interfaces for all of their banking needs. Today, more and more banking cores are looking to bring crypto offerings to meet growing retail customer interest in digital assets.

Anchorage Digital’s secure, regulated platform allows TAPP Engine to connect member credit unions and banks to crypto services.

“We are thrilled to partner with Anchorage Digital to integrate digital assets into our infrastructure, with the confidence of its highly secure environment.”

—Will Dolan, President and Head of Digital Assets / Cash Management, TAPP Engine Digital

Crypto Financial Products

Banks and financial services providers need sophisticated crypto collateral management to participate in lending services to private clients. Anchorage Digital offers crypto-collateralized mortgage lending for Moon Mortgage, where customers can use Bitcoin as collateral to secure a mortgage on a real property.

“Supporting the purchase of real estate through Bitcoin collateralized Mortgage lending is an important use case for digital assets. Anchorage Digital was the only crypto-native company with the regulatory framework and robust financing program to make this powerful new capability possible, and we are excited to partner with them.”

—Aaron Nevin, Founder and CEO, Moon Mortgage

Crypto Market Participation

SEC-registered investment advisors (RIAs) are subject to a number of fiduciary responsibilities and need custody and trading systems to effectively participate in digital assets. Anchorage Digital is pleased to help RIAs participate with a number of partners including MAYA, Oath Digital, Plutus21 Capital, and more.

“As investors in and users of blockchain infrastructure since 2017, we have an intimate understanding of the available platforms and their features. We selected Anchorage Digital as a partner for its regulatory backstop and strict controls, which enable us to offer a full range of blockchain services while keeping digital assets secure and accessible.”

—Hamiz Awan, Founder, Plutus21 Capital

“Anchorage Digital helps us achieve our mission of expanding our customers’ participation in digital assets in a highly secure, regulated environment.”

—Tanguy Chau, CEO, MAYA Financial

“Our expectations for partners are high, and Anchorage Digital has continually shown a commitment to meet our needs and help our family office and RIA investors access our digital asset investment strategies.”

—Ryan Goldman, Co-Founder, Oath Digital

Anchorage Digital is pleased to be the partner of choice for several innovative alternative trading system (ATS). Our ATS partners include Lynk, Rialto Markets, and additionally, Oasis Pro Markets, which partnered with us in September 2021 to make on-chain settlement for crypto payments, allowing a streamlined way to use crypto in private markets.

"We are proud to partner with Anchorage Digital to provide the most efficient and safest solution for institutional investors globally looking to access digital assets.  LYNK is able to bring crypto asset managers access to global capital markets and reach accredited and institutional investors worldwide because of our ability to offer Anchorage Digital custody and trading via APIs."

—Mario Rivero, CEO of LYNK

“Anchorage Digital has been a true partner in transforming the traditional capital markets to a digital ecosystem, streamlining the trading experience for our customers.”

—Pat LaVecchia, CEO of Oasis Pro Markets

“Prometheum has partnered with Anchorage Digital Bank to provide a custody solution for Prometheum ATS. Anchorage Digital Bank's custodial solution will help Prometheum provide a marketplace for digital asset securities to Prometheum ATS users.”

—Aaron Kaplan, Founder and Co-CEO of Prometheum

“Anchorage Digital’s platform makes the trading experience faster and more efficient, in a regulated environment that gives our customers confidence. We are excited to partner with them for digital securities trading services.”

—Shari Noonan, CEO and Co-Founder, Rialto Markets

If you’d like to learn more about our offerings, please get in touch or email partnerships@anchorage.com.

About AngelList

AngelList provides investors and founders with the infrastructure they need to launch and scale a fund or startup—and invest in either. As of this writing, AngelList supports over $14B in assets. In 2021, 57% of all top-tier U.S. early stage venture deals happened on AngelList.

About LYNK Capital Markets  

LYNK is a fintech platform that automatically securitizes investing into private funds and portfolios through tradable feeders, and enables professional investors to trade directly from their brokerage account. LYNK empowers capital markets investors to invest without boundaries into traditional and emerging asset classes including hedge funds, private equity, private debt, real estate and crypto funds, and supports capital raising activities though LYNK's broker network and intelligent marketplace. The LYNK team works with top-tier globally recognized partners, and has launched more than 400 products and traded over $4 billion. Learn more at www.lynkcm.com.

About MAYA Financial

Beat inflation with MAYA Financial, the first FDIC-insured neobank & SEC-registered investment advisor to offer US consumers easy access to crypto innovation.

About Moon Mortgage

Moon Mortgage is here to help crypto investors materialize their digital wealth by reimagining lending for the era of digital assets. Moon Mortgage does this by taking investor’s Bitcoin, Ethereum or stable coins as collateral for 100 percent financing of the purchase of owner-occupied and investment properties. Investors can also use Moon Mortgage to take out a loan against the value of their digital assets. Moon Mortgage means that investors can not only materialize their crypto, but also maintain their exposure to their digital assets while doing so. All crypto is safeguarded by Anchorage Digital, the only U.S. Federally Chartered crypto bank, and protected by the highest possible security standards. For more information, visit moonmortgage.io.

About Oasis Pro, Inc. and Oasis Pro Markets, Inc.

Founded by seasoned Wall Street and blockchain veterans, Oasis Pro, Inc. is a leading fintech and blockchain company with a mission to bridge the world of traditional finance, blockchain and decentralized finance, "DeFi." Oasis Pro’s subsidiary, Oasis Pro Market, is a FINRA member firm that operates a multi-asset ATS ("OATSPRO") to allow primary issuance and trading of public and private multi-asset digital securities as well as a full-service investment bank.

OATSPRO enables issuers and subscribers to conveniently and securely buy, sell, and offer a range of alternative assets in the secondary market. Subscribers may also make payment for digital securities via fiat and digital currencies including stablecoins, and central bank digital currencies (CBDC) through their custodians. Backed by a team with deep fintech industry and regulation experience, Oasis Pro is the next evolution of alternative asset investing. For more information, visit www.oasispromarkets.com. Securities are offered through Oasis Pro Markets, Member FINRA/SIPC.

About Oath Digital

Oath Digital is an end-to-end digital asset solution for RIA and family office investors. The Oath platform provides a curated selection of digital asset investment strategies across the risk spectrum, as well as digital asset education and insights. Oath's proprietary Smart Indexes™ provide investors with data-driven, tax-advantaged digital asset strategies, and our partnerships with best-in-class fund managers such as BlockTower Capital provide our clients with access to top-decile private fund opportunities. Oath was founded in 2021 by a team of alternative asset industry veterans and digital asset investment experts.

About Plutus21 Capital

Plutus21 Capital is a quantitative and fundamental investment firm backing and building blockchain infrastructure teams since 2017. The firm combines data science and technology with its investment experience to create a proprietary adoption index that is used to invest in adoption leaders and their fastest-adopted competitors. The firm is dedicated to creating a sustainable information advantage for its investment team and its portfolio companies through its proprietary technology and rigorous research. The firm provides investment management and research to entrepreneurs, executives, family offices, foundations, hedge funds, insurance companies, and wealth advisors looking for a thoughtful and unique blockchain investment strategy. Learn more at www.plutus21.com, on Twitter @plutus21cap, and on LinkedIn @plutus21.

About Prometheum

Founded in 2017 by a group of Wall Street lawyers, Prometheum is an innovative blockchain-focused company engaged in building the first compliant (regulated) end-to-end ecosystem for digital asset securities. Digital asset securities will live on Prometheum's network, where the Prometheum blockchain will track transactions for secure clearing and settlement.

About Rialto Markets

Rialto Markets is a FINRA member Broker Dealer (Rialto Primary) and operates an alternative trading system (Rialto Secondary – Rialto MarketBoard™) for private securities including those issued as a Digital Asset Security. Rialto Primary supports companies issuing equity and debt securities through Reg A+, Reg CF, and Reg D exemptions. Rialto Markets is registered in all 50 states including those requiring a broker-dealer to issue Reg A+ securities.

About Series Financial

Series is rebuilding enterprise financial services by providing full-service banking and payments solutions, enterprise-grade crypto custody, prime services & end-to-end back office software designed specifically for institutions and enterprises.

About TAPP Engine

TAPP Engine® is a B2B provider of SaaS embedded finance solutions for financial services intermediaries. We serve the needs of credit unions, community banks, advisors, brokers, and other financial services companies who want to launch new branded digital products quickly. Our mission is to bring less expensive, value creating solutions to their clients with a focus on an improved overall client experience and economics.Our comprehensive asset servicing platform combines modern cash management, trading, custody, and clearing services across multiple assets.We deliver our SaaS infrastructure solutions through our proprietary investing UX, via RESTful API or through 3rd party Banking and FinTech platform providers, all backed with full operations support.

Press contacts

Anchorage Digital - press@anchorage.com

Moon Mortgage:

Rich Went - moonmortgage@galliumventures.com

Plutus21 Capital - contact@plutus21.com

Rialto Markets:

Steve Philp - steve.philp@worlddigitalfoundation.com

TAPP Engine:

Bradford Cornell - bradford@tappengine.com