Securitize mints stablecoins directly with Anchorage Digital Bank

Tokenized funds have spent years promising to modernize Wall Street plumbing. The cash that settles those trades has often still moved through a chain of intermediaries. Securitize is trying to shorten that chain. The tokenization platform, which hosts funds from BlackRock, Apollo and KKR, said it will source the dollars used to settle trades from a federally chartered bank rather than from intermediaries. That bank is Anchorage Digital Bank. Anchorage is the first federally chartered crypto bank in the US. What the deal actually does The partnership was announced on October 20, 2026. Under the arrangement, Securitize can mint and redeem stablecoins directly with Anchorage. In a tokenized trade, there are two sides. One is the asset itself, such as a token representing a share in a fund. The other is the payment, often called the “dollar leg.” Securitize has built its business on the asset side. This deal targets the payment side, which is where intermediaries have typically sat between investors and the dollars they need. Institutional investors on the platform can transact using stablecoins issued by a federally regulated bank. That brings closer regulatory oversight to the cash ...