Anchorage Digital Brings TRON to U.S. Institutional Market

Anchorage Digital, the only federally chartered crypto bank in the United States, announced on March 26, 2026 that it has integrated the TRON blockchain into its regulated platform. The integration gives institutional investors, including hedge funds and traditional financial firms, their first compliant path to custody TRX (Tronix), TRON’s native token, within a U.S. federal banking framework.

Three-Phase Integration Roadmap

Anchorage is rolling out TRON support in phases to meet its security and operational standards as a federally regulated institution.

• Phase 1 (Live Now): Regulated custody for TRX through Anchorage Digital Bank N.A. and Porto, the firm’s institutional self-custody wallet product.
• Phase 2 (Upcoming): Support for TRC-20 tokens, opening the platform to the full ecosystem of assets issued on the TRON network, including USDT.
• Phase 3 (Upcoming): Native TRX staking, allowing institutional clients to earn rewards while participating in TRON network validation and governance.

TRON as the Stablecoin Highway

The partnership is a significant institutional validation for TRON, which has emerged as the dominant global settlement layer for stablecoins, particularly Tether (USDT). Despite handling enormous on-chain volume, the network has historically struggled to gain traction with U.S.-regulated institutions.

TRON currently hosts approximately $86 billion in stablecoins, representing more than a quarter of the world’s total stablecoin supply and exceeding the stablecoin volume settled on Ethereum. That dominance has made institutional access a strategic priority for the network, which has been largely shut out of the U.S. institutional market since Coinbase delisted TRX in 2023.

“TRON has become a critical part of how value moves on-chain. By bringing it onto Anchorage Digital’s regulated platform, we’re helping bring one of crypto’s largest ecosystems into an institutional framework.”

TRON Ecosystem Snapshot | March 2026

Metric	Figure
Total user accounts	Over 371 million
Total value locked (TVL)	Over $24 billion
Average daily transactions	10.1 million
Stablecoins hosted	~$86 billion (25%+ of global supply)

Justin Sun Settlement and the Regulatory Reset

The Anchorage announcement comes weeks after TRON founder Justin Sun reached a $10 million settlement with the SEC, resolving a case that had cast a regulatory cloud over the network since 2023. Analysts have described the Anchorage integration as a “regulatory reset” for TRON, arriving at a moment when the current administration’s pro-crypto posture has lowered barriers for federally regulated institutions to expand their blockchain coverage.

For Anchorage, the TRON addition extends its position as the primary regulated custody gateway for institutional crypto adoption in the U.S. The firm already supports Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and a range of other assets through its federal charter from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).