TL;DR
- Anchorage Digital has launched a venture arm to fund and advise early-stage onchain protocols, with a focus on institutional adoption.
- The program supports projects in Bitcoin, DeFi, real-world assets, and decentralized identity, providing capital, product and engineering guidance, and liquidity strategies.
- Participants will gain access to advanced resources and receive comprehensive support from the conception and launch of their projects.
Anchorage Digital, a crypto custody platform founded in 2017 and valued at over $3 billion, announced the creation of Anchorage Digital Ventures, a venture unit aimed at supporting early-stage onchain protocols.
The initiative combines financing with strategic guidance to help founding teams launch projects ready for institutional use from day one.
The program targets developers working on critical infrastructure for cryptocurrency adoption, including Bitcoin DeFi solutions, real-world assets, decentralized identity, and other components that could become foundational infrastructure. Anchorage also emphasizes its interest in projects that address challenges for institutional adoption, ensuring that supported teams’ products are available to major clients from launch.
Participants will receive funding along with direct guidance from Anchorage’s product, engineering, and go-to-market teams. They will also benefit from a structured process to select market makers and liquidity strategies that facilitate institutional integration. The program provides comprehensive support beyond financing, helping founders navigate the challenges of launching a protocol more safely and efficiently.
Anchorage to Showcase Projects at Token2049
Applications are now open, and a select group of founders will be invited to present their projects at a private demo day during Token2049 in Singapore this October. Anchorage will announce funding recipients on a rolling basis, backing emerging projects with potential global impact.
The company has stood out as one of the largest crypto platforms serving institutions and was the first to receive a federal bank charter in the United States. Anchorage has noted that bringing a protocol to market involves many challenges, so the program aims to remove obstacles and provide solid support from the project’s inception.
Through this initiative, Anchorage seeks to foster protocols capable of moving value through the global economy reliably and securely, while granting developers access to resources and expertise typically available only to established projects. The program combines funding, technical guidance, and market strategies to accelerate institutional adoption of new onchain solutions
