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Don’t Sleep on the OCC: Reflections From Four Years of Being the Only Federally Regulated Crypto Company
Don’t Sleep on the OCC: Reflections From Four Years of Being the Only Federally Regulated Crypto Company
January 13, 2025 While much of the digital asset legislation being proposed by Congress puts the role of regulators…
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Nathan McCauley shared thisYesterday, Anchorage Digital announced a landmark partnership with Western Union to launch USDPT, modernizing how dollars move across borders for the millions of people Western Union serves. Anchorage Digital Bank, as the only federally regulated stablecoin issuer, will mint and redeem USDPT under U.S. federal oversight. Built on Solana, USDPT will be integrated into Western Union’s network across more than 150 countries. Read the announcement: https://okt.to/QzBp5E
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Nathan McCauley shared thisThe passage of GENIUS is driving a bright future where stablecoins scale safely, the U.S. leads, and the dollar stays dominant. Our new collaboration with Tether.io brings USA₮ a new, GENIUS-compliant stablecoin to the U.S. marketplace is a powerful testament to this.
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Nathan McCauley shared thisFour years of Office of the Comptroller of the Currency exams. Millions in compliance infrastructure investment. Hundreds of dedicated meetings with our regulator. Dozens of expert hires. Thousands of man-hours in risk and regulatory specialization and collaboration. Anchorage Digital has proven that crypto can meet the highest federal standards for safety, risk management, and compliance. This is a day for celebration. Very proud that our tireless efforts are pushing the industry– and U.S. financial leadership– forward. Read my letter about what lifting our consent order means, not just for Anchorage Digital, but for the entire industry: https://okt.to/Jv8XIb
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Nathan McCauley shared thisVery pumped to launch Anchorage Digital Prime. With deep liquidity, spot, margin, and derivatives, seamless integration with the Anchorage Digital platform, and more, the full-service trading experience that our clients have relied on for years is now better than ever.
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Nathan McCauley shared thisIncredible proof of work from the White House in today’s Digital Assets report. It reinforces what we’ve known all along: secure custody and next-gen wallet infrastructure are foundational to the future of finance. Couldn’t be more proud to see Anchorage Digital recognized in that vision.
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Nathan McCauley shared thisThe security of protocols, custodians, exchanges, bridges, and apps is of utmost importance if we're going to scale as an industry. The US is looking to lead in digital assets, but mainstream adoption and serious use cases will never propagate unless we dramatically upscale the security of the entire crypto ecosystem. I hope the Blockchain Security Standards Council (BSSC) is able to set a minimum set of standards for the industry, standardize audits across the board, and create a mutual web of trust. Other industries have done this well. PCI in the payments card landscape. ESRB and MPAA in the entertainment industry. Self regulatory bodies that advance an industry without the need for a regulatory body/enforcement mechanism. Self policing. If you're interested to learn more I'd be happy to connect on this, I think there's an opportunity for a lot of us to come together here.Nathan McCauley shared thisBSSC has just released four blockchain security standards. This launch isn’t a suggestion, it’s a call to action. Step up or fall behind. Secure what matters. Be a part of BSSC. Let’s set the standard for security, together: https://lnkd.in/e5BQs9_v #SecureBlockchain #CryptoCompliance #ProtocolSecurity #BlockchainSecurity
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Nathan McCauley shared thisThe future of corporate strategy is Bitcoin-native. Anchorage Digital is here to make it happen. Pumped to be partnering with Nakamoto Holdings and Kindly MD, Inc.. David Bailey’s vision continues to open new doors. Let's go.Nathan McCauley shared thisNEW! Today we’re thrilled to announce a strategic partnership with Nakamoto Holdings and Kindly MD, Inc. to accelerate the future of corporate Bitcoin adoption. Anchorage Digital, home to the only U.S. federally chartered digital asset bank, will provide custody and trading services to KindlyMD for its Bitcoin treasury operations once the merger with Nakamoto closes.
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Nathan McCauley shared thisThanks CoinDesk for an incredible #Consensus2025 conference this year. Great to share the stage with Cody and Sergey and great execution across the board.
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Nathan McCauley shared thisThe OCC has put in the proof of work for the last four years to be positioned to oversee this industry. This positioning doesn’t happen overnight. It takes real-world oversight experience, iteration, and building in public. Proud and humbled to have been part of that process.Nathan McCauley shared thisThe federal banking system is well positioned to engage in digital asset activities. OCC Interpretive Letters 1183 and 1184 clarify and confirm national banks may engage in certain crypto-asset activities, provided they do so in a safe, sound and fair manner.
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Nathan McCauley liked thisNathan McCauley liked thisJPMorgan Accepts Bitcoin as Collateral - What It Really Changes Two years ago, Jamie Dimon said, “If I were the government, I’d close it down.” Last Friday, it was reported JPMorgan will be accepting Bitcoin and Ether as collateral. Here’s what this shift really means for banks, borrowers, and the future of Bitcoin-backed credit. - Why this didn’t happen overnight (and why it matters now) - How the next wave of bitcoin-collateralized lending could empower Main Street lenders - And why at Lygos Finance, we see this as a win-win for borrowers and lenders alike. It’s the groundwork for a more open, risk-minimized, capital-efficient credit system. Read the full piece here: https://lnkd.in/e36qgSZ2 If you are a main street lender looking to extend bitcoin-backed loans to your clients we'd love to help.JPMorgan Accepts Bitcoin as Collateral: What It Really ChangesJPMorgan Accepts Bitcoin as Collateral: What It Really Changes
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Nathan McCauley liked thisNathan McCauley liked thisI'm thrilled to announce I'm now Head of Engineering at Morpho 🦋 I've spent most of the last 7 years in DeFi (fun fact - my first startup was built on @compoundfinance) and I'm as bullish on Morpho as I am Uniswap Labs. Why Morpho is inevitable and what I'll be focused on: 1/ It's the only lending architecture that scales. A tsunami of loan-worthy assets are coming onchain and no one can manage risk for all of them. Morpho's key insight: separating lending infra from risk management enables an entire ecosystem of experts to do it for you. 2/ The design is elegantly simple. Morpho V1 is 600 lines of code. How it works: - Lending markets are created with static risk parameters. Like @Uniswap pools, anyone can create a market for a token on Morpho - Vaults allocate to different markets on behalf of users. They're managed by expert risk curators like @gauntlet_xyz - Lenders pick vaults matching their risk/yield preference 3/ It's permissionless incentive alignment at its finest. Builders focus on building, curators focus on optimizing risk/return for users, users focus on picking vaults they like. This frees up Morpho to innovate (fixed-rate lending coming soon ™️), empowers curators to build sustainable businesses ($30M+ in revenue YTD), and provides users the fairest lending/borrowing rates. The ecosystem thrives when everyone focuses on what they do best. 4/ Institutions are coming and they're choosing Morpho. Turns out separating lending infra from risk management makes sense to TradFi too. Coinbase integrated markets and vaults into the core CEX product and has facilitated $1B+ of cbBTC backed loans and $300M+ of USDC lending for their users. Crypto.com, Societe Generale - FORGE, and many other TradFi/fintech giants are building on Morpho too (announcement of many announcements 👀) 5/ The next challenge is fixed-rate lending and scaling access. Morpho V2 is well in the works and will bring liquid fixed-rate lending to DeFi at last. My focus: help get V2 across the finish and scale the products and APIs that make this powerful protocol accessible to the world. 6/ The team is elite, join us if you are too. The team has an awesome mix of talent, humility, and passion. If you love DeFi and have an all-star skillset, check out our open positions or HMU. We always have room for exceptional builders! https://morpho.org/jobs/
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Nathan McCauley liked thisNathan McCauley liked thisPersonal milestone: today I'm proud to become a #NewUSCitizen ! Thanks Sean Belka, Bill Doyle, Ryan Teksten at Fidelity Investments, for 9 years and one week ago you gave me a life changing opportunity, and made our intercontinental move wonderfully smooth. I can't think of a better employer! Humbled (former) #FidelityAssociate And thanks to Deborah (Swett) Smith, Josiah Curtis and your team for all your thorough support with immigration through the years! You made it all possible.
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Nathan McCauley liked thisNathan McCauley liked thisHad a great chat with Cuy Sheffield and the Visa team during Money20/20 about onchain credit and how it’s becoming a key bridge between TradFi and DeFi. Visa’s latest report features Morpho and shows how billions in stablecoins are already powering institutional-grade lending. Super excited to see the world’s largest payment network embracing open finance!
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Nathan McCauley liked thisNathan McCauley liked thisIt was an honor to host Acting U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chair Caroline D. Pham at our new offices in NY to talk about the agency's Crypto Sprint and what lies ahead in crypto market structure to keep the US at the forefront of innovation.
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Nathan McCauley liked thisNathan McCauley liked thisWhen I joined the Federal Reserve System a few years ago from the private sector, I wasn’t entirely sure what I was stepping into - other than a desire to serve and give back to a country that has given my family and me so much. Maybe the only other aspiration I had was to help build a bridge, be a connector, a translator between the worlds of tech, crypto, and the Fed. I’ve been lucky to find a champion in Governor Christopher Waller, who shares that same mental model of curiosity and a belief that dialogue - even when it’s spicy - is good. Listening and learning is how we break down barriers and unlock opportunities to collaborate. That journey has taken us across the country and around the world, meeting builders, operators, and investors through countless roundtables. Today, the Payments Innovation Conference feels like a culmination of those conversations, as we welcome many of those same builders into the Fed - on our home field (unfathomable even a few months ago!) for practical, hands-on discussions on AI, tokenization, smart contracts, and the future of payments infrastructure. These technologies are no longer viewed with skepticism or scorn, but engaged in a positive, productive, and pragmatic way. It’s a golden age of innovation, and collaboration - in service of efficiency, resilience, and progress. As Gov Waller states in his opening remarks - “At the Fed, we now embrace the disruption.”…. Plus take a read for exciting news on a “skinny master account” prototype! https://lnkd.in/eD-NSxiu Tune in virtually: https://lnkd.in/exCBfdEd
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Nathan McCauley liked thisThank you American Banker! Very excited to talk about all the stablecoin things and how Anchorage Digital thinks about issuance out of a federally regulated bank!Nathan McCauley liked thisWe're thrilled to announce that our Global Head of Operations Rachel Anderika is joining American Banker's conference, The Most Powerful Women in Banking, to speak on a panel exploring payments, stablecoins, and the remaking of the financial industry. 🗓️ 10AM Tuesday October 21 | The Glasshouse NYC
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Secure communications between devices and a trusted server
Issued US PCT/US2012/069897
A method of establishing secure communication between a first mobile computing device and a second mobile computing device includes generating a first self-signed key at the first mobile computing device, pairing the first device with a second device, the pairing including receiving user input of a passcode and after receiving the user input sending the first public key to the second mobile computing device and receiving a second public key from the second mobile computing device, storing the…
A method of establishing secure communication between a first mobile computing device and a second mobile computing device includes generating a first self-signed key at the first mobile computing device, pairing the first device with a second device, the pairing including receiving user input of a passcode and after receiving the user input sending the first public key to the second mobile computing device and receiving a second public key from the second mobile computing device, storing the second public key in a database of trusted devices, the database of trusted devices being stored in the first mobile computing device, receiving in the first mobile computing device a list of mobile computing devices connected to a mobile network, matching the list of mobile computing device against the database of trusted devices, and establishing secure communication between the first mobile computing device and the second mobile computing device.
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Back end of payment system associated with financial transactions using card readers coupled to mobile devices
Issued US PCT/US2012/069897
A method of establishing secure communication between a first mobile computing device and a second mobile computing device includes generating a first self-signed key at the first mobile computing device, pairing the first device with a second device, the pairing including receiving user input of a passcode and after receiving the user input sending the first public key to the second mobile computing device and receiving a second public key from the second mobile computing device, storing the…
A method of establishing secure communication between a first mobile computing device and a second mobile computing device includes generating a first self-signed key at the first mobile computing device, pairing the first device with a second device, the pairing including receiving user input of a passcode and after receiving the user input sending the first public key to the second mobile computing device and receiving a second public key from the second mobile computing device, storing the second public key in a database of trusted devices, the database of trusted devices being stored in the first mobile computing device, receiving in the first mobile computing device a list of mobile computing devices connected to a mobile network, matching the list of mobile computing device against the database of trusted devices, and establishing secure communication between the first mobile computing device and the second mobile computing device.
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Methods of transmitting information from efficient encryption card readers to mobile devices
Issued US PCT/US2012/064760
A read head is configured to be coupled to a mobile device. The read head has a slot for swiping a magnetic stripe of a card. The read head reads data on the magnetic stripe and produces a raw magnetic signal indicative of data stored on the magnetic stripe. Device electronics are provided with an analog front-end and a microcontroller. The analog to digital front end is coupled to a processing element in the microcontroller. The analog to digital front end receives a raw magnetic head signal…
A read head is configured to be coupled to a mobile device. The read head has a slot for swiping a magnetic stripe of a card. The read head reads data on the magnetic stripe and produces a raw magnetic signal indicative of data stored on the magnetic stripe. Device electronics are provided with an analog front-end and a microcontroller. The analog to digital front end is coupled to a processing element in the microcontroller. The analog to digital front end receives a raw magnetic head signal and converts it into a processed digital signal that the microcontroller can interpret. The microcontroller produces a signal. An output jack is adapted to be inserted in a port of the mobile device and deliver an output jack signal to the mobile device.
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Card reader with efficient encryption
Issued US US 13/298,557
A card reader has a housing, read head and device electronics that receive a raw signal from the read head and converts it into a processed digital signal that the microcontroller can interpret. A microcontroller with associated logic resources and code receives a digital signal from the device electronics and creates an encrypted and signed message based on the contents of the signal. An output jack is provided.
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Secure communications between devices
US US 13/353,229
A method of establishing secure communication between a first mobile computing device and a second mobile computing device includes generating a first self-signed key at the first mobile computing device, pairing the first device with a second device, the pairing including receiving user input of a passcode and after receiving the user input sending the first public key to the second mobile computing device and receiving a second public key from the second mobile computing device, storing the…
A method of establishing secure communication between a first mobile computing device and a second mobile computing device includes generating a first self-signed key at the first mobile computing device, pairing the first device with a second device, the pairing including receiving user input of a passcode and after receiving the user input sending the first public key to the second mobile computing device and receiving a second public key from the second mobile computing device, storing the second public key in a database of trusted devices, the database of trusted devices being stored in the first mobile computing device, receiving in the first mobile computing device a list of mobile computing devices connected to a mobile network, matching the list of mobile computing device against the database of trusted devices, and establishing secure communication between the first mobile computing device and the second mobile computing device.
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