🚀 ANCHORAGE DIGITAL SNAPS UP MOUNTAIN PROTOCOL! 🚀
🔹 Acquisition Alert: Federally chartered crypto bank Anchorage Digital will acquire yield-bearing stablecoin issuer Mountain Protocol, folding its USDM tech, team & licensing into Anchorage’s platform—pending regulatory sign-off.
🔹 CEO Vision: “Stablecoins are becoming the backbone of the digital economy…every business will be a stablecoin business,” says Anchorage co-founder Nathan McCauley.
🔹 Institutional Push: Stablecoin adoption is soaring on fresh regulatory clarity and big-ticket use cases—Citi now forecasts the market growing to $1.6 T in its base case and $3.7 T in its bull case by 2030.
🔹 ERC-20, Permissionless & Yield-Bearing: USDM operates like leading stablecoins, is fully collateralized by short-term U.S. Treasuries in bankruptcy-remote reserves, and audited by OpenZeppelin—offering seamless integration with any ERC-20 smart contract.
🔹 Deepening Custody: Anchorage clients can now custody wUSDM and USDM with institutional-grade security and compliance, building on support for a broad range of tokens from BTC to emerging assets.
🔹 Competitive Landscape: This marks another consolidation in stablecoins—Circle recently acquired token-issuance startup Hashnote (USDY), while firms like Fireblocks pivot from trading rails to payments infrastructure.
🔹 Why It Matters: Anchorage’s move accelerates institutional stablecoin adoption, supercharging faster, cheaper programmable rails for payments, settlements and DeFi—setting the stage for trillions in on-chain liquidity.
💬 Your Take: Will this acquisition vault Anchorage to the top of institutional stablecoin rails, or spark a wave of new entrants? Drop your hot takes & tag a colleague!
🔁 REPOST to fire up the Square algorithm—let’s make stablecoins mainstream!
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