Anchorage Digital Partners with Puffer to Bring Regulated Custody, Stablecoins, and Agentic Payments to Puffer UniFi

TL;DR: Anchorage Digital will serve as Puffer UniFi's day-one institutional custodian, extending the agentic banking infrastructure it is building with Google Cloud onto an Ethereum-aligned settlement network.

Anchorage Digital, home to America's first federally regulated crypto bank, today announced a partnership with Puffer Finance, the Ethereum infrastructure company building Puffer UniFi, to bring regulated custody, stablecoin infrastructure, and payment settlement to the network from day one.

Under the partnership, Anchorage Digital will serve as Puffer UniFi's day-one institutional custodian. The two companies will also work together to support stablecoin issuance, native settlement, and institutional payment infrastructure on Puffer UniFi, Puffer's Ethereum-aligned execution and settlement network.

For institutions, the partnership means they can hold assets, move stablecoins, and settle transactions on Puffer UniFi through Anchorage Digital's integrated regulated platform, while the network's synchronous composability keeps them connected to Ethereum's liquidity and security.

"Institutions want to hold assets, move stablecoins, and settle transactions onchain with the same security and controls they expect everywhere else in their business. Serving as Puffer UniFi's custodian from day one means those foundations are in place at launch, on a network that keeps institutions connected to Ethereum's liquidity and security.” —Nathan McCauley, CEO and Co-Founder, Anchorage Digital

What the partnership covers

Custody from day one. Institutional participation onchain starts with custody. As Puffer UniFi's day-one institutional custodian, Anchorage Digital gives institutions a regulated platform through which they can hold and access the assets used across Puffer UniFi applications and settlement flows, with the operational controls, permissions, and compliance processes institutional workflows require.

Agentic payments. The partnership extends Anchorage Digital's agentic payment infrastructure, which enables software agents to initiate payments on behalf of financial institutions and registered merchants, onto Puffer UniFi for high-throughput stablecoin settlement. As financial activity becomes more programmable and automated, this pairing creates a path for agents to transact, move value, and settle onchain within an institutional framework.

Stablecoin issuance and native settlement. As stablecoins become a core settlement asset for onchain finance, Anchorage Digital and Puffer will work together to pair Anchorage Digital's stablecoin infrastructure and custody with Puffer UniFi's execution and settlement environment, so institutions can issue, hold, and settle in stablecoins on the network from the outset.

Payments built for speed and Ethereum alignment. Puffer UniFi is designed to combine high-throughput execution and real-time settlement with direct access to Ethereum liquidity through synchronous composability. For Anchorage Digital, this creates settlement rails that pair performance with Ethereum's liquidity and security.

"As payments become increasingly programmable, custody and settlement infrastructure need to evolve together. Our partnership with Anchorage Digital brings institutional infrastructure to Puffer UniFi from day one, creating rails for stablecoins, payments, and agentic financial activity while remaining composable with Ethereum.” —Amir Forouzani, Co-Founder, Puffer Finance

The Google Cloud connection

The partnership builds on work both companies are doing with Google Cloud.

In May 2026, Anchorage Digital launched Agentic Banking and deepened its partnership with Google Cloud, pairing Google Cloud's AI and infrastructure with Anchorage Digital's regulated financial rails. When an AI agent reaches the moment of transaction, Anchorage Digital's platform enforces corporate spending policies, Know Your Agent (KYA) identity standards, and real-time compliance controls before settlement executes across stablecoins, fiat rails, or tokenized credentials.

Together, the pieces are complementary layers of one stack: Google Cloud provides enterprise-grade gateway and intelligence infrastructure, Anchorage Digital provides the rails to regulated custody, stablecoin, and agentic payment, and Puffer UniFi provides the execution and settlement environment where that activity runs, connected to Ethereum.

For more information on Anchorage Digital Bank's agentic banking or stablecoin issuance offerings, please get in touch.

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