Anchorage Digital Pushes Federally Chartered Settlement Into Non-Custodial DeFi With Coordinated Multiparty Layer - "The Defiant"

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Anchorage Digital, the only federally chartered crypto bank in the United States, is positioning its Atlas settlement network as a coordinated multiparty settlement layer for institutional trading on non-custodial DeFi venues — beginning with Hyperliquid, Lighter, and Aave — letting buy-side firms transact on live on-chain markets without moving assets offshore or prefunding exchange accounts.

The framing extends a December 7 integration in which Anchorage wired institutional middleware provider BridgePort into Atlas as the coordination layer for "traditional and non-custodial execution venues," adding pre-order asset allocation and post-trade settlement messaging to a network that previously focused on spot OTC settlement and collateral management.

Anchorage Digital Bank is valued at $4.2 billion after a Tether-led $100 million Series E in February and custodies tens of billions of dollars for clients including BlackRock, 21Shares, and Cantor Fitzgerald.