Digital asset custodian Anchorage Digital has activated native TRX staking for institutional clients, building on its custody support for the Tron blockchain as regulated on-chain yield services attract growing demand from large investors.
What Anchorage Is Offering
Institutional clients can now stake TRX, Tron’s native token, directly from Anchorage’s custody platform or its Porto self-custody wallet. The setup allows them to earn protocol rewards for helping secure the Tron network without moving assets outside their existing custody environment.
Anchorage introduced institutional custody for TRX earlier in 2026. The staking launch is the next step in expanding that relationship with the Tron ecosystem.
Why Tron: The USDT Settlement Case
Anchorage pointed to Tron’s dominant role in USDT settlement as the driver behind the expansion. According to the company, Tron processed approximately $2 trillion in USDT transfers during the first quarter of 2026, while averaging 10.9 million daily transactions and 3.2 million active addresses. Tether’s transparency data shows nearly $90 billion of USDT currently circulates on the network, making Tron one of the most active stablecoin rails globally.
Those figures describe Tron’s existing scale rather than any uptake of the new service. Anchorage has not disclosed how many clients have staked TRX or what volumes the offering has attracted since launch.
Part of a Broader Anchorage Push
The TRX staking launch follows a series of custody-integrated staking additions at Anchorage. In November, the firm partnered with Figment to add HYPE staking, extending its offering to the Hyperliquid ecosystem.
Institutional Platforms Race to Add Staking
Anchorage is one of several institutional crypto infrastructure firms that have moved beyond pure custody into staking services over the past year.
In October 2025, Coinbase and Figment expanded their institutional staking partnership, giving Coinbase Prime clients the ability to stake Solana (SOL), Avalanche (AVAX), Sui (SUI), and Aptos (APT) directly from custody. Four months later, Ripple integrated Figment and Securosys into its institutional custody platform, enabling banks and custodians to offer staking without running their own validator infrastructure.
Asset managers have followed. In February, BitGo expanded its partnership with 21shares to provide regulated custody and staking for the firm’s US exchange-traded funds and global exchange-traded products through its regulated US and European entities.
Corporate crypto treasuries have joined the trend as well. Bitmine launched its MAVAN staking platform in March, initially built for its own Ether treasury and later opened to external institutions and custodians. On Monday, Bitmine said it holds 5.77 million ETH, representing about 4.8% of Ether’s total supply, and has staked 4.92 million ETH through MAVAN.
Anchorage’s TRX launch adds one of the largest stablecoin settlement networks to the growing list of assets available for institutional staking through regulated custody providers.
