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 serve as Puffer UniFi’s day-one institutional custodian, with the companies collaborating on stablecoin infrastructure, native settlement, and agentic payments

Puffer Finance, an Ethereum infrastructure company building Puffer UniFi, today announced a partnership with Anchorage Digital, home to America’s first federally regulated crypto bank, to bring institutional-grade custody, stablecoin infrastructure, and payment settlement capabilities to Puffer UniFi, Puffer’s Ethereum-aligned execution and settlement network.

Under the partnership, Anchorage Digital will serve as Puffer UniFi’s day-one institutional custodian. Puffer and Anchorage Digital will also work together to support stablecoin issuance, native settlement, and institutional payment infrastructure on the network.

The collaboration brings together Anchorage Digital’s institutional digital asset infrastructure with Puffer UniFi’s high-performance execution and settlement environment, creating a foundation for institutions to securely hold assets, move stablecoins, and settle transactions onchain.

Puffer UniFi is designed to support high-throughput execution and real-time settlement while remaining connected to Ethereum L1 liquidity through synchronous composability. This architecture is intended to give institutions access to faster execution without separating them from Ethereum’s liquidity and security.

The partnership will also extend into agentic payments. By combining Anchorage Digital’s institutional and agentic payment infrastructure with Puffer UniFi’s execution and settlement environment, the companies are developing new rails for programmable payments and increasingly automated forms of onchain financial activity.

The announcement follows Puffer’s partnership with Google Cloud, announced one week earlier, under which Google Cloud joined Puffer Preconf as a registered gateway, with Puffer UniFi as the first rollup to use the infrastructure.

Together, the two partnerships add complementary layers to the Puffer UniFi stack: enterprise-grade gateway infrastructure through Google Cloud and institutional digital asset infrastructure through Anchorage Digital, as Puffer continues building out the network ahead of launch.

“As payments become increasingly programmable, custody and settlement infrastructure need to evolve together. Our partnership with Anchorage Digital brings institutional infrastructure to Puffer UniFi from day one, creating rails for stablecoins, payments, and agentic financial activity while remaining composable with Ethereum” said Amir Forouzani, Co-Founder of Puffer Finance. 

“Institutions want to hold assets, move stablecoins, and settle transactions onchain with the same security and controls they expect everywhere else in their business,” notes Nathan McCauley, CEO and Co-Founder of Anchorage Digital. “Serving as Puffer UniFi’s custodian from day one means those foundations are in place at launch, on a network that keeps institutions connected to Ethereum’s liquidity and security.”

About Puffer Finance

Puffer Finance is an Ethereum infrastructure company building Puffer UniFi, an Ethereum-aligned execution and settlement network for institutions, trading 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 proven infrastructure layer for modern financial markets that gives institutions a single platform to participate in digital assets, including prime services, tokenization, stablecoins, and the governance framework for agentic finance. Home to Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., America’s first federally regulated digital asset bank, Anchorage Digital also serves institutions through 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 wallet Porto by Anchorage Digital. Anchorage Digital Bank also offers fiat custody services through an FDIC-insured, licensed sub-custodian. Anchorage Digital is funded by leading institutions including 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 offices in New York, New York; Porto, Portugal; Singapore; and Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Learn more at anchorage.com, X, YouTube, and LinkedIn.