[PRESS RELEASE – Cayman Islands, Cayman Islands, September 29th, 2026]
Anchorage Digital will function Puffer UniFi’s day-one institutional custodian, with the businesses collaborating on stablecoin infrastructure, native settlement, and agentic funds
Puffer Finance, an Ethereum infrastructure firm constructing Puffer UniFi, right now introduced a partnership with Anchorage Digital, dwelling to America’s first federally regulated crypto financial institution, to deliver institutional-grade custody, stablecoin infrastructure, and fee settlement capabilities to Puffer UniFi, Puffer’s Ethereum-aligned execution and settlement community.
Beneath the partnership, Anchorage Digital will function Puffer UniFi’s day-one institutional custodian. Puffer and Anchorage Digital can even work collectively to assist stablecoin issuance, native settlement, and institutional fee infrastructure on the community.
The collaboration brings collectively Anchorage Digital’s institutional digital asset infrastructure with Puffer UniFi’s high-performance execution and settlement atmosphere, making a basis for establishments to securely maintain property, transfer stablecoins, and settle transactions onchain.
Puffer UniFi is designed to assist high-throughput execution and real-time settlement whereas remaining related to Ethereum L1 liquidity via synchronous composability. This structure is meant to present establishments entry to sooner execution with out separating them from Ethereum’s liquidity and safety.
The partnership can even prolong into agentic funds. By combining Anchorage Digital’s institutional and agentic fee infrastructure with Puffer UniFi’s execution and settlement atmosphere, the businesses are growing new rails for programmable funds and more and more automated types of onchain monetary exercise.
The announcement follows Puffer’s partnership with Google Cloud, introduced one week earlier, beneath which Google Cloud joined Puffer Preconf as a registered gateway, with Puffer UniFi as the primary rollup to make use of the infrastructure.
Collectively, the 2 partnerships add complementary layers to the Puffer UniFi stack: enterprise-grade gateway infrastructure via Google Cloud and institutional digital asset infrastructure via Anchorage Digital, as Puffer continues constructing out the community forward of launch.
“As funds change into more and more programmable, custody and settlement infrastructure have to evolve collectively. Our partnership with Anchorage Digital brings institutional infrastructure to Puffer UniFi from day one, creating rails for stablecoins, funds, and agentic monetary exercise whereas remaining composable with Ethereum” mentioned Amir Forouzani, Co-Founding father of Puffer Finance.
“Establishments wish to maintain property, transfer stablecoins, and settle transactions onchain with the identical safety and controls they count on all over the place else of their enterprise,” notes Nathan McCauley, CEO and Co-Founding father of Anchorage Digital. “Serving as Puffer UniFi’s custodian from day one means these foundations are in place at launch, on a community that retains establishments related to Ethereum’s liquidity and safety.”
About Puffer Finance
Puffer Finance is an Ethereum infrastructure firm constructing Puffer UniFi, an Ethereum-aligned execution and settlement community for establishments, buying and selling platforms, and agentic commerce. Puffer is backed by Ethereum Basis, Electrical Capital, Brevan Howard Digital, Coinbase Ventures, YZi Labs, F-Prime Capital, and Franklin Templeton.
About Anchorage Digital
Anchorage Digital is the confirmed infrastructure layer for contemporary monetary markets that provides establishments a single platform to take part in digital property, together with prime providers, tokenization, stablecoins, and the governance framework for agentic finance. House to Anchorage Digital Financial institution N.A., America’s first federally regulated digital asset financial institution, Anchorage Digital additionally serves establishments via Anchorage Digital Singapore, licensed by the Financial Authority of Singapore; Anchorage Digital NY, which holds a BitLicense from the New York Division of Monetary Companies; and self-custody pockets Porto by Anchorage Digital. Anchorage Digital Financial institution additionally presents fiat custody providers via an FDIC-insured, licensed sub-custodian. Anchorage Digital is funded by main establishments together with Andreessen Horowitz, GIC, Goldman Sachs, KKR, and Visa, with a valuation of $4.2 billion. Based in 2017 in San Francisco, California, Anchorage Digital has places of work in New York, New York; Porto, Portugal; Singapore; and Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Be taught extra at anchorage.com, X, YouTube, and LinkedIn.
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