Anchorage Digital Demo Day at ETHDenver: Meet the Winner

Last week at ETHDenver, we hosted our second Anchorage Digital Demo Day, an invite-only afternoon designed to showcase early-stage protocol teams building the next generation of crypto infrastructure.

The event brought together founders, builders, and institutional leaders for a first look at new ideas shaping the next generation of financial infrastructure, followed by intimate, high-signal networking. Six teams took the stage to demo what they’re building, each tackling core challenges across decentralized systems, financial infrastructure, and institutional adoption.

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Meet the Winner: Predicate

We’re excited to announce Predicate as the winner of Anchorage Digital’s ETHDenver Demo Day.

Predicate stood out for tackling one of the hardest problems in crypto infrastructure: how to embed compliance and risk controls directly into on-chain systems, without sacrificing composability or decentralization.

Rather than layering compliance on after the fact, Predicate enables pre-transaction policy enforcement at the protocol level, giving developers and institutions a way to define, validate, and enforce transaction prerequisites before execution. That design has meaningful implications for institutional adoption, risk management, and how capital can safely move on-chain at scale.

The panel was impressed by Predicate's ability to unite decentralized systems with real-world institutional requirements by making programmable policy a native primitive, rather than an external constraint. That clarity of vision, paired with a practical path to adoption, ultimately set Predicate apart. We’re excited to continue working closely with the team as they scale toward broader adoption.

Building momentum through Anchorage Digital Ventures

Anchorage Digital Demo Day is an extension of Anchorage Digital Ventures, our effort to partner early with the teams building the core infrastructure that will define how digital assets are issued, moved, governed, and settled.

Through Anchorage Digital Ventures, we work alongside founders at the earliest stages: providing not just capital, but access to regulatory insight, institutional context, and the operational realities of bringing crypto-native technology into production environments. Demo Day is one way we surface and support teams solving foundational problems across the stack—and connect them directly with builders, operators, and institutions shaping the market.

This marked our second Demo Day, and it’s part of a growing cadence. We plan to continue creating spaces where early-stage protocol teams can share what they’re building, get real feedback, and form the relationships required to scale responsibly.

Calling all builders working on core crypto infrastructure

Through Anchorage Digital Ventures, we’re actively looking to partner with early-stage, strategic teams building protocols that can meaningfully advance crypto infrastructure. Areas we’re especially excited about include:

• Foundational technology that helps new ecosystems grow 
• New use cases or primitives (BTCFi, RWAs, DePIN)
• Protocols that remove barriers to institutional adoption 
• Core infrastructure with meaningful engineering or systems breakthroughs

If that sounds like what you’re building, we want to hear from you.