New round values Anchorage at over $3 billion Diogo Mónica and Nathan McCauley We are pleased to announce that Anchorage Digital has raised a $350 million Series D funding round. Led by global investment firm KKR, this round of financing values Anchorage at over $3 billion. Participants include Goldman Sachs…

By Viktor Stanchev There’s a famous Go language proverb coined in a talk by Rob Pike from 2015 that says, “A little copying is better than a little dependency.” He points out that dependencies can bloat applications and they should be avoided in cases where copying a little code solves…

By Aaron Lint, Security Lead, Prasanna Gautam, Technical Lead, Protocols, David Oh, Member of Technical Staff, Kas Sarmeidani, Member of Technical Staff and Leslie Ankney, Director of Communications Welcome to Engineering at Anchorage Digital! As a fast-scaling company, Anchorage Digital’s technical staff is core to our institutional digital asset platform…

Leslie Ankney Each month in our Eight Questions series, we profile individual members of the Anchorage Digital team. This month, we’re highlighting four talented women leaders helping us set forward a regulated, innovative path in digital assets. We’ll stick with the traditional eight total questions because it’s the number of…

This January, we marked the second anniversary of our federal bank charter. It was a moment of pioneering progress for any digital asset bank, and it coincided with our announcement of another milestone for our compliance and bank program: a significant “new phase”, including a reorganization and multiple high-level hiring…

Leslie Ankney Each month in our Eight Questions series, we profile individual members of the Anchorage Digital team. This month, we’re highlighting members of our village that work directly with protocols. …

By Diogo Mónica and Nathan McCauley While self-custody is not an option for most traditional financial institutions, which must report material investments in crypto and hold them with a “qualified custodian,” Chainalysis recently reported mounting evidence that more institutions are turning to self-custody. Self-custody plays an important and historically significant…

Anchorage Digital Bank is adding top talent to navigate the bank’s next step forward When Anchorage Digital Bank received its OCC charter in January of 2021, it was a turning point for our company and a historic moment for the entire crypto industry. …

Ethereum’s transition to proof-of-stake (PoS) was a historic moment in distributed engineering that reduced Ethereum’s carbon footprint by 99.99% with more than 41,000 people watching the final Merge block successfully transition the Ethereum blockchain. Perhaps the most notable characteristic of the event was just how un-eventful it was, in hindsight. …