Anchorage Digital Bridges the Gap Between AI Agents and Money

Anchorage Digital has launched a new category of institutional infrastructure designed to enable artificial intelligence agents to interact with capital, securely and compliantly.

This infrastructure, Agentic Banking, provides a regulated trust, governance and settlement layer that allows institutions to fund and control agents operating on their behalf, Anchorage Digital said in a Tuesday (May 5) press release. This layer ensures that the agents’ actions are governed, auditable and aligned with the enterprise’s policies, per the release.

When an AI agent is ready to make the transaction, Agentic Banking enforces corporate spending policies, know your agent identity standards, and real-time compliance controls before executing the settlement across stablecoins, fiat rails or tokenized credentials, according to the release.

The Agentic Banking platform brings together AI agents’ intelligence and regulated access to capital, Anchorage Digital Co-founder and CEO Nathan McCauley said in the release.

“Agentic Banking is the bridge between those two worlds: a system that brings trust, governance and real financial rails to autonomous systems,” McCauley said.

Anchorage Digital also announced Tuesday that it has deepened its partnership with Google Cloud to deploy full-stack, cloud-native infrastructure for agentic commerce and digital asset services.

The companies are collaborating on crypto key management and transaction infrastructure, according to the release.

They aim to provide institutions with digital asset custody infrastructure that is just as reliable and secure as the institutions’ other core infrastructure.

“As global financial institutions increasingly adopt digital assets, they require secure, scalable and compliant infrastructure to build on,” Rich Widmann, head of strategy, Web3, at Google Cloud, said in the release. “By pairing Anchorage Digital’s regulated digital asset capabilities with our scalable infrastructure, we’re helping to unlock the next wave of institutional adoption.”

In another recent move, Anchorage Digital said Tuesday that it is exploring a stablecoin issuance model designed to offer institutional stablecoin issuers better liquidity, capital efficiency and security.

Anchorage Digital aims to become the infrastructure underneath cryptocurrency banks, and wants all banks to become crypto banks, McCauley told PYMNTS CEO Karen Webster in an interview posted Thursday (April 30).

“Whether that’s around stablecoins, whether that’s custody and trading as a back end, whether that’s building their business on top of ours, we are here to be the enabling infrastructure bank for the industry,” McCauley said.