As many as 20 financial institutions and major technology companies are lining up to issue their own stablecoins with Anchorage Digital, the US-regulated cryptocurrency custodian’s CEO Nathan McCauley told Consensus Miami 2026 on Thursday.
“Since the Genius Act was passed, Anchorage has won every major stablecoin issuance mandate across the landscape,” McCauley said. “We really have a dozen to maybe even as many as 20 institutional issuers or large technology companies that will come in and issue their stablecoin with us.”
“The kind of entry we’re seeing is banks looking to achieve a very specific goal, stablecoin issuers saying, ‘Hey, I have a distribution channel where I can put my stablecoin to good use,'” he added.
Anchorage was the US’s first federally chartered crypto bank, so it’s no surprise that the firm is now reaping the benefits of a nascent regulatory framework in the states.
To better meet this demand, Anchorage last month announced a partnership with M0, a technology provider that enables global institutions to mint fully configurable stablecoins that also work with Stripe, Moonpay and MetaMask.
Another key announcement for Anchorage was AI-based “Agentic Banking,” a way for AI agents to trade and manage funds in collaboration with the Google Cloud infrastructure.
McCauley described agent trading as “a whole remaking of the landscape.”
“We’ve made it happen with AI agents, and at the same time we’re seeing a fundamental replatforming of money itself via stable coins and digital assets. We’re here at this conference and that’s the most important thing we’re talking about. But I still think it’s vastly underrated.”
