MIAMI — As many as 20 financial institutions and major technology companies are preparing to issue their own stablecoins through crypto custody firm Anchorage Digital, according to the company’s CEO, who said demand has surged following passage of the GENIUS Act.
Speaking at the Consensus Miami 2026 conference, Anchorage Digital CEO Nathan McCauley said the firm has seen a wave of institutional interest in launching stablecoins, according to reporting by CoinDesk.
“Since the Genius Act passed, Anchorage has won every single large stablecoin issuance mandate across the landscape,” McCauley said, according to CoinDesk. “We have really a dozen to maybe even as many as 20 institutional issuers or large tech company issuers who are going to come in and issue their stablecoin with us.”
McCauley said the inquiries are coming from banks seeking specific business objectives as well as companies that already have established distribution channels for digital payments and financial products, CoinDesk reported.
First Crypto Bank
Anchorage became the first federally chartered crypto bank in the United States and has positioned itself to benefit from the emerging regulatory framework surrounding digital assets and stablecoins.
CoinDesk reported that Anchorage recently announced a partnership with M0, a technology provider that enables institutions to create customizable stablecoins. M0 also works with companies including Stripe, MoonPay and MetaMask.
McCauley also highlighted Anchorage’s push into AI-driven financial services through what the company calls “Agentic Banking,” developed in partnership with Google Cloud. The initiative is designed to allow artificial intelligence agents to transact and manage funds autonomously.
‘Entire Reimagining’
McCauley described the emergence of agentic commerce as “an entire reimagining of the landscape,” according to CoinDesk.
“We’ve got that happening with AI agents, and at the same time we are seeing a fundamental replatforming of money itself via stable coins and digital assets,” McCauley said, according to the report. “We’re here at this conference, and it’s the main thing we’re talking about. But I still think it’s vastly underestimated.”
