Puffer and Anchorage Digital Partner to Bring Institutional Settlement Infrastructure to Puffer UniFi
[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, as we speak introduced a partnership with Anchorage Digital, residence 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.
Under the partnership, Anchorage Digital will function Puffer UniFi’s day-one institutional custodian. Puffer and Anchorage Digital will even work collectively to help 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 surroundings, making a basis for establishments to securely maintain belongings, transfer stablecoins, and settle transactions onchain.
Puffer UniFi is designed to help high-throughput execution and real-time settlement whereas remaining related to Ethereum L1 liquidity by synchronous composability. This structure is meant to give establishments entry to quicker execution with out separating them from Ethereum’s liquidity and safety.
The partnership will even prolong into agentic funds. By combining Anchorage Digital’s institutional and agentic fee infrastructure with Puffer UniFi’s execution and settlement surroundings, 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 use the infrastructure.
Together, the 2 partnerships add complementary layers to the Puffer UniFi stack: enterprise-grade gateway infrastructure by Google Cloud and institutional digital asset infrastructure by Anchorage Digital, as Puffer continues constructing out the community forward of launch.
“As funds grow to be more and more programmable, custody and settlement infrastructure want 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” stated Amir Forouzani, Co-Founder of Puffer Finance.
“Institutions need to maintain belongings, transfer stablecoins, and settle transactions onchain with the identical safety and controls they anticipate in all places else of their enterprise,” notes Nathan McCauley, CEO and Co-Founder 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 Foundation, Electric 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 offers establishments a single platform to take part in digital belongings, together with prime companies, tokenization, stablecoins, and the governance framework for agentic finance. Home to Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., America’s first federally regulated digital asset financial institution, Anchorage Digital additionally serves establishments by Anchorage Digital Singapore, licensed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore; Anchorage Digital NY, which holds a BitLicense from the New York Department of Financial Services; and self-custody pockets Porto by Anchorage Digital. Anchorage Digital Bank additionally provides fiat custody companies by 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. Founded 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. Learn extra at anchorage.com, X, YouTube, and LinkedIn.
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