As many as 20 financial institutions and big tech companies are lining up to issue their own stablecoins with Anchorage Digital, CEO of U.S.-regulated cryptocurrency custodian Nathan McCauley told Consensus 2026 in Miami on Thursday.
“Anchorage has won every large stablecoin issuance authorization in the entire space since the Genius Act was passed,” McCauley said. “We have literally a dozen and maybe as many as 20 institutional issuers or large tech company issuers that are going to come in and issue their stablecoins with us.”
“The inflows we’re seeing are banks that want to achieve very specific goals, stablecoin issuers saying, ‘Hey, I have a distribution channel where I can fully leverage my stablecoin,'” he added.
Anchorage was the first federally chartered crypto bank in the United States, so it’s no surprise that the company is now benefiting from the emerging regulatory framework in the United States.
To better meet this need, Anchorage last month announced a partnership with M0, a technology provider that allows global institutions to mint fully configurable stablecoins. The company also works with companies such as Stripe, Moonpay, and MetaMask.
Another big announcement in Anchorage is AI-based “agent banking,” a way for AI agents to work with Google Cloud infrastructure to conduct transactions and manage money.
Macaulay describes agency commerce as “a radical reimagining of the landscape.”
“We’re already seeing this with AI agents, and at the same time we’re seeing a fundamental re-platforming of money itself through stablecoins and digital assets. We’re coming into this conference and that’s the main thing we’re talking about. But I still think it’s massively undervalued.”
