Anchorage adds TRX staking as Tron handles nearly $90 billion in USDT

Anchorage Digital has expanded its Tron offering with custody for TRX and TRC-20 assets and a phased rollout of native TRX staking for institutional clients, building on plans it first announced on March 26, 2026. The service gives institutions a regulated way to hold and eventually stake TRX through Anchorage’s federally chartered platform, allowing them to pursue protocol rewards without moving assets outside a compliant custody environment. The rollout broadens Anchorage’s Tron support beyond safekeeping into staking and wider token custody as institutional crypto providers push deeper into proof-of-stake services. As of July 2026, TRX custody is fully operational, while staking is still being introduced in phases. Anchorage and Tron have framed the partnership as a way to deepen secure institutional access to a network that plays a major role in stablecoin settlement. Anchorage, founded in 2017, became the first nationally chartered digital asset bank in the U.S. when the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency granted it a trust charter in January 2021. The company says it is valued at $4.2 billion and backed by investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Goldman Sachs, KKR, GIC and Visa. Tron, whose mainnet launched in May 2018 under founder Justin Sun, has more than 392 million total user accounts according to earlier figures cited in the existing record, while the new report describes 370 million-plus user accounts and says USDT circulating on the network stands at roughly $86 billion to $90 billion in early 2026. The expansion also highlights a compliance trade-off for institutions. Justin Sun’s regulatory scrutiny and legal actions in multiple jurisdictions remain a consideration for risk-sensitive investors, even as Anchorage’s federal oversight offers a regulated access point into the Tron ecosystem.