ChainCatcher news, Securitize, a tokenization platform supported by BlackRock, announced the appointment of former Anchorage executive Georgia Quinn as Chief Legal Officer, aiming to drive the adoption of compliant tokenized securities in traditional financial markets. It also appointed Michael Sonnenshein as Chief Operating Officer.

According to ChainCatcher news, monitored by Arkham, an address suspected to belong to an early investor in Arbitrum (0x11...dfA9) transferred 5.26 million ARB, worth approximately 3.98 million dollars, to the custodian Anchorage Digital at 2:39 AM on January 10.This address received 175 million ARB from Arbitrum: Offchain Labs Investors on March 16, 2024 (then worth about 333 million dollars). Currently, the address still holds 142 million ARB, valued at approximately 106 million dollars at the current price.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, Anchorage Digital CEO and co-founder Nathan McCauley stated: "The next U.S. government and Congress are committed to bringing greater regulatory transparency to the crypto ecosystem.By 2025, the industry will focus on several key areas, including: SAB 121, stablecoins, greater regulatory openness to digital asset innovation, and developments surrounding the U.S. Bitcoin strategic reserve."

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, cryptocurrency custodian Anchorage Digital announced that the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) has issued a BitLicense to its subsidiary Anchorage Digital NY, LLC. This approval enables Anchorage Digital to provide secure and efficient cryptocurrency trading for institutions in New York State, with full functionality expected to be achieved by early 2025.

ChainCatcher news, FOX Business reporter Eleanor Terrett posted on X that Anchorage Digital co-founder and CEO Nathan McCauley revealed that in January 2023, the company's partner bank stated it would no longer work with them because it was "engaged in cryptocurrency business."It is reported that Anchorage itself is a federally chartered bank and is subject to OCC review, but it was disqualified from participating in banking activities due to its involvement in cryptocurrency.

ChainCatcher news, Bitcoin mining company Hut8 repaid approximately $38 million of its loan balance obtained from Anchorage Digital through stock conversion. Anchorage Digital converted the debt into common stock at a price of $16.395 per share.Hut8's remaining debt includes $150 million in convertible notes agreed upon with Coatue Management in June, specifically for the company's expansion into the artificial intelligence computing market.

ChainCatcher news, according to TheBlock, Anchorage Digital announced that it will provide custody services for 21Shares' spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs, and will require issuers and participants to use biometric authentication to participate in the crypto ETFs to enhance security.

ChainCatcher news, Bitcoin L2 network Stacks announced on social platforms that it has reached a partnership with Anchorage, which will provide custody support for tokens on the Stacks network.

ChainCatcher message, according to Arkham monitoring, a suspected Anchorage Digital address transferred 60 million USDC to Coinbase Prime 4 hours ago. Currently, the address still holds 39.95 million USDC.

ChainCatcher message, according to Arkham monitoring, a suspected Anchorage Digital address transferred 60 million USDC to Coinbase Prime about 6 minutes ago.

ChainCatcher news, according to Fortune, to increase adoption, PayPal announced a partnership with Anchorage Digital (the only U.S. cryptocurrency company with a banking license) to offer stablecoin rewards to Anchorage Digital's qualified investor user base, who hold PYUSD in their U.S. bank accounts, Singapore subsidiary, or through their non-custodial wallet Porto.Anchorage Digital stated that PYUSD and the rewards program do not constitute a securities issuance and are not subject to the jurisdiction of banking regulators.

ChainCatcher news, according to CoinDesk, cryptocurrency bank Anchorage CEO Nathan McCauley stated that the company is increasing custody support for tokens on the Solana blockchain.The federally chartered custodian will initially allow its clients (ranging from venture capital firms and hedge funds to protocol libraries) to store a limited number of tokens that comply with Solana's SPL standard.Anchorage began increasing custody support for Solana-based tokens in 2022 and only added staking support last year. McCauley mentioned that the company has been waiting to establish and launch custody support for SPL tokens, rather than acting too quickly or prematurely, as the chain has already faced some setbacks.

ChainCatcher news, according to Spot on Chain monitoring, Paradigm Capital deposited 39,068 ETH (approximately $129 million) to the custody platform Anchorage Digital 8 hours ago.This is their largest deposit in the past 3 months. Currently, Paradigm Capital has only 8,373 ETH (approximately $27.5 million) left.

ChainCatcher message, according to Arkham monitoring, Paradigm Capital (address starting with 0x115) transferred approximately 6,221 ETH, worth about 20.31 million USD, to Anchorage Digital 5 hours ago. Currently, Paradigm still holds 47,441 ETH, worth about 155 million USD.

ChainCatcher news, according to CoinDesk, the U.S.-regulated cryptocurrency custody company Anchorage Digital announced a partnership with Hashnote to establish Hashnote Harbor, which will offer return products through a set of derivatives strategies. Hashnote is a digital asset management company established with the support of trading giants Cumberland and DRW.It is reported that both companies have robust qualifications from U.S. regulatory agencies: Anchorage holds a federal banking license issued by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and is a crypto bank; Hashnote is registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as a Commodity Pool Operator (CPO).

ChainCatcher message, according to Arkham monitoring, Paradigm Capital: 0x11...c3cD transferred 19,504 ETH to Anchorage Digital today at 8:53, approximately worth 65.59 million USD.

ChainCatcher message, according to Arkham monitoring, Paradigm Capital deposited 5,817 ETH, worth approximately $20.49 million, into the institutional-grade custody platform Anchorage Digital about 2 hours ago.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Data Nerd monitoring, 9 hours ago, a wallet (possibly Anchorage) deposited 2.3 million ARB (approximately 2.57 million USD) to Coinbase.As of now, the wallet still holds 26.52 million ARB sent by the Arbitrum Foundation (approximately 29.45 million USD).9 hours prior to this, Wintermute deposited 1 million ARB (approximately 1.13 million USD) to Binance, and GSR deposited 1.9 million ARB (approximately 2.13 million USD) to Binance.

ChainCatcher news, according to Arkham data, Paradigm Capital transferred 4,535 ETH to the crypto custody platform Anchorage Digital: Custodian (0xd52) address 4 hours ago, approximately worth 16.99 million USD.

ChainCatcher news, according to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa's monitoring, in the past 22 hours, institutional asset management company Anchorage Digital transferred 10 million ARB to Cumberland DRW, of which 7 million have been deposited into exchanges, worth 7.13 million USD.ARB is currently still the second-largest asset in Anchorage Digital's holdings, with a remaining 10 million tokens (10.15 million USD), second only to ETH.