As many as 20 financial institutions and large technology companies are in the queue to issue their own stablecoins with Anchorage Digital, Nathan McCauley, CEO of the U.S.-regulated cryptocurrency custody company, said Thursday at Consensus Miami 2026.
“Since the passage of the Genius Act, Anchorage has won every major stablecoin issuance mandate in the landscape,” McCauley said. “We actually have a dozen, even twenty institutional issuers or large technology companies that are going to come and issue their stablecoin with us.”
“The type of entries we see are banks that want to achieve a very specific goal, stablecoin issuers that say, ‘Hey, I have a distribution channel where I can put my stablecoin to good use,’” he added.
Anchorage was the first federally chartered crypto bank in the United States, so it is not surprising that the company is now reaping the benefits of a nascent regulatory framework in the United States.
To better meet this demand, Anchorage last month announced a partnership with M0, a technology provider that enables global institutions to create fully configurable stablecoins, which also works with Stripe, Moonpay and MetaMask.
Another big announcement for Anchorage is AI-powered “Agentic Banking,” a way for AI agents to transact and manage funds, in partnership with Google Cloud infrastructure.
McCauley described the agent business as “a complete reinvention of the landscape.”
“It’s happening with AI agents, and at the same time, we’re seeing a fundamental rethinking of money itself through stablecoins and digital assets. We’re here at this conference, and that’s the main thing we’re talking about. But I still think it’s vastly underappreciated.”
