Anchorage Digital

Anchorage Digital is the first and only federally chartered digital asset bank in the United States, holding a national trust charter issued by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in January 2021. In Q1 2026 it donated $1 million to Fellowship PAC, the pro-Trump Senate Super PAC, making it one of the largest single crypto-industry contributions to a Republican outside-spending group in the cycle.

Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, Anchorage Digital provides custody, trading, and lending services to institutional investors, including sovereign wealth funds and hedge funds. Its federal charter sets it apart from most crypto firms, which operate under state money-transmitter licences and are in a more precarious regulatory position. The OCC charter gives Anchorage access to Federal Reserve payment rails.

The donation to Fellowship PAC reflects the crypto industry's broader alignment with the Trump administration, which has signalled a more permissive regulatory posture toward digital assets than the Biden-era SEC enforcement regime. For Anchorage, the contribution is simultaneously a political investment and a hedge: the senators Fellowship PAC supports sit on committees with jurisdiction over digital-asset legislation including the CLARITY Act.