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Anchorage Digital is rolling out a bundled service that lets non-U.S. banks use U.S.-regulated stablecoin rails for dollar transfers, custody, and token lifecycle operations — and is already anchoring issuer-led launches such as Tether’s USAT and an OSL-backed USDGO tranche. The product relies on Anchorage’s federal charter for regulatory positioning, but wider bank adoption will hinge on final implementing rules from U.S. agencies.
OSL Group and Anchorage Digital announced USDGO, a federally regulated, fully reserved U.S. dollar stablecoin aimed at institutional settlement and corporate cross-border payments. An initial $50 million was minted on Solana, with the issuer identified as Anchorage Digital Bank N.A. and plans to expand chain support and distribution via licensed OSL entities.

At Accelerate APAC in Hong Kong, Solana framed itself as a settlement layer for continuous digital markets, emphasizing tokenized securities, stablecoin rails and payments rather than consumer-facing narratives. Panels, bank analysts and new market initiatives discussed practical enablers—custody, liquidity backstops, auditability and predictable finality—while flagging technical and regulatory gaps that must be closed for institutional production.
Franklin Templeton and Binance unveiled a program that lets institutional traders pledge tokenized money-market fund units as collateral while custodians keep the assets outside the exchange. The arrangement aims to lower counterparty exposure and improve capital efficiency by letting pledged holdings keep earning yield while mirrored within Binance’s trading environment.
Mantle has activated a cross-chain gateway that lets $MNT travel from Ethereum Layer 2 environments onto Solana, integrating on-chain DeFi venues and centralized exchange rails. The rollout pairs a Solana-native liquidity venue and Bybit’s trading lane to create coordinated incentives and a seamless capital loop between DeFi and CeFi.

BitGo has extended its relationship with 21Shares to provide custody, trading and integrated staking for the issuer’s U.S. ETFs and global exchange-traded products, using regulated BitGo entities in the United States and Europe. The move deepens institutional-grade staking inside regulated investment vehicles and signals growing competition among custody platforms to package yield-generating crypto services for funds and large investors.

Rails unveiled onchain vaults on the Stellar network to keep client collateral in auditable smart contracts while handling order matching off-chain. The architecture is designed to curb counterparty exposure and aims to add options trading by Q2 2026 as the firm pursues U.S. regulatory clearance.
Arcium moved its encrypted computation network into live Mainnet Alpha on Solana, enabling privacy-preserving applications with Umbra as the first production protocol. The launch activates a staged private rollout for shielded transfers and swaps, positioning encrypted capital markets as a practical layer for public blockchains.