Anchorage Digital Partners With Securitize for Stablecoin Issuance
Securitize will directly mint, redeem, and settle federally chartered stablecoins through Anchorage Digital Bank across its $4 billion tokenization platform.
At a glance Announced
- What happened
- Anchorage Digital partnered with Securitize to provide direct minting, custody, and redemption of federally chartered stablecoins.
- Why it matters
- The deal allows institutional tokenized asset trades to settle with dollars held and cleared directly by a federally regulated bank.
- Who is affected
- Institutional asset managers and investors trading tokenized funds on Securitize.
- What's next
- No next step announced.
- Primary source
- anchorage.com: Anchorage Digital Brings Federally Issued Stablecoins to Securitize, the World's Largest Tokenization Platform | Anchorage Digital
Key points
- Securitize partnered with Anchorage Digital Bank to enable direct minting, redemption, and settlement of federally regulated stablecoins 1.
- Securitize hosts more than $4 billion in assets, supporting funds from asset managers including Apollo, BlackRock, BNY, and KKR 1.
- About 99% of the $530 million reserve backing USDtb was invested in BlackRock's tokenized BUIDL fund as of August 31, 2026 1.
Anchorage Digital announced a partnership with tokenization platform Securitize to offer direct minting and redemption of stablecoins issued by Anchorage Digital Bank, N.A. 1. Under the agreement, Anchorage Digital Bank will manage the issuance, custody, and settlement of digital dollars used to settle tokenized trades directly on Securitize, removing third-party stablecoin intermediaries from the transaction flow 1.
Securitize, which trades publicly under the ticker SECZ, provides the infrastructure behind tokenized funds managed by firms including Apollo, BlackRock, BNY, Hamilton Lane, KKR, and VanEck 1. The platform maintains more than $4 billion in assets 1. By integrating primary minting and redemption through a national trust bank, cash balances will reside in segregated bank accounts under federal supervision throughout their lifecycle 1. Securitize previously detailed its cross-border infrastructure initiatives when Securitize expanded in South Korea.
Institutional Settlement Rails
The stablecoin issuance ecosystem at Anchorage Digital Bank includes USDtb, developed with Ethena Labs, and USA₮, structured alongside Tether, in addition to issuing relationships with other financial entities 1. According to an independently attested reserve report from Anchorage Digital Bank, approximately 99% of USDtb's $530 million in reserves were held in BlackRock's BUIDL fund as of August 31, 2026 1. That fund is itself tokenized onchain via Securitize 1.
Data from rwa.xyz shows that the broader market for tokenized real-world assets expanded from roughly $23 billion at the close of 2025 to $31 billion by March 2026 1. Anchorage Digital and Securitize leadership stated that providing primary access to federally supervised digital dollars enables the cash component of tokenized securities transactions to match the compliance and custody standards established on the asset side 1.
Sources
- [1] Anchorage Digital Brings Federally Issued Stablecoins to Securitize, the World's Largest Tokenization Platform | Anchorage Digital — anchorage.com, October 20, 2026
Written by Basis Desk's newsroom system from the primary sources above and machine-verified against them before publication. Market figures marked "at the time of writing" come from live exchange data. Report an error: corrections@basisdesk.news · corrections policy.
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