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Anchorage Digital is a federally chartered crypto bank offering institutional custody, trading, and staking services for digital assets.
LlamaRisk's October 12 snapshot places 51.2% of Ethena's USDe backing in DeFi and institutional lending. The allocation figure does not measure actual borrower drawdowns, so a holder's exit near $1 turns on pool liquidity and whitelisted redemption rights.
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LayerZero's Oct. 20 unlock of 23.63 million ZRO equals 5.92% of circulating supply, about $54.1 million at $2.29, per DefiLlama. At September's roughly $1 the same tokens were worth about $23.6 million.
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Anchorage Digital is a day-one partner on Sui's Hashi, which opens in phases later this month with more than $500 million pledged. Treasury firms can post bitcoin held in qualified custody as collateral, though the cash they raise depends on stablecoin lenders on Sui.
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Sui is launching Hashi, a protocol for borrowing against bitcoin that stays on the Bitcoin chain, with $500 million pledged by more than 20 partners. The pledges equal about 0.05% of the $1 trillion in idle bitcoin Sui estimates, so the test is how much bitcoin holders actually lock into Hashi's vaults.
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Sui Foundation has more than $500 million committed to Hashi, its native bitcoin collateral network, from over 20 partners including Anchorage Digital. Those pledges are launch liquidity for an October rollout, so what counts is how much bitcoin institutions actually post once promises have to become deposits.
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Wells Fargo is in talks to source crypto trading liquidity from Payward, the $21 billion Kraken parent, two people told CoinDesk. A signed contract would let the bank offer crypto execution without building trading infrastructure and would put bank revenue behind Payward's price.
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Anchorage Digital now gives non-US institutions USD accounts, SWIFT wires and 24/7 dollar transfers through a Standard Chartered partnership. A client that drops its separate bank keeps weekend dollar access only to firms that also bank at Standard Chartered Singapore.
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Anchorage Digital has bought Routable, a payouts platform that more than doubled in each of the last two years, without disclosing a price. The crypto bank is buying corporate payout customers now and betting they will later settle in stablecoins.
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Strategy and BlackRock's IBIT trust hold 1.65 million bitcoin worth about $140.8 billion, 7.87% of the 21 million cap. Strategy owns its coins as a corporate treasury, while IBIT's belong to a trust whose balance moves with share redemptions.
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Illinois agreed to delay its 0.2% crypto transaction tax six months, to July 1, 2027, in a joint motion a judge must still approve. The law stays on the books while two lawsuits proceed, so brokers who must collect it get more time to build for a levy that can still arrive in July.
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Anchorage Digital, the first crypto firm with a national trust charter, has cut 17% of its staff, according to people familiar with internal discussions. It is shrinking while it holds new investor capital and competes with rivals that have since won similar charters.
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Anchorage Digital is cutting about 17% of staff, an estimated 68 jobs, eight months after Tether's $100 million investment valued it at $4.2 billion. That price covered a roughly 2.4% stake, and Anchorage's own 2023 record points to a cost cut it has reversed before.
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Builders Bank & Trust would custody bitcoin and stablecoins under one federal supervisor instead of fifty state ones. That is worth paying for. But 23 of the OCC's last 40 applications want much the same thing.
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Messari puts Morpho's outstanding loans at a record $5bn, with 95% of it stablecoin credit. About $1.3bn of that comes from Coinbase customers borrowing USDC against $2.5bn of cbBTC, and that prices out as a 52% loan-to-value book, not a leverage book.
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Payward's Bitnomial filing answers the market-structure question the CFTC already knows how to answer. The open item is the screening of a permissionless order book, and no answer to that question exists yet.
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The Coinbase-funded group is rewarding a vote already cast, in the chamber that already said yes. The bill is stuck one floor over.
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The $1 billion facility routes USDe reserves into overcollateralized institutional loans through a bankruptcy-remote vehicle. The structure, not the size, is the news.
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Custody+ adds digital asset custody later this year, starting with bitcoin, inside the framework Citi uses for traditional securities. The bank says it will hold native tokens rather than route them out.
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The Miami treasury company is sending about 106,000 ETH, roughly 12% of its stack, into a receipt token custodied at Anchorage. Passive holding is becoming collateral.
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