Anchorage Digital has integrated Marinade Finance into its platform, allowing institutional clients to stake Solana tokens through automated validator strategies while maintaining custody of their assets.
According to Thursday’s announcement, the integration gives clients direct access to Marinade’s staking strategies within Anchorage’s custody and wallet infrastructure, including its Porto self-custody wallet, without requiring external applications.
The setup separates staking delegation from withdrawal control, allowing institutions to participate in validator selection and yield generation while retaining asset control.
Clients can choose between two staking strategies: one that allocates across a curated set of roughly 30 KYC-verified validators for compliance-focused use cases, including regulated financial products such as exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Another dynamically distributes stake across a broader validator set spanning hundreds of operators to optimize yield.
The integration is available through Anchorage Digital’s platform and its Porto wallet, where staking, custody and asset management functions are combined within a single interface.
Anchorage Digital is a San Francisco-based crypto custody provider that operates the first federally chartered crypto bank in the United States. In January, it was reported to be seeking between $200 million and $400 million in new funding as it considers a potential initial public offering next year.
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Institutional yield strategies expand from staking to Bitcoin DeFi
Institutions are increasingly seeking yield on crypto holdings without moving assets out of custody, as staking gains traction among asset managers and product issuers.
In February, Ripple expanded its custody platform through integrations with Securosys and Figment, enabling banks and custodians to offer staking without running validators or managing keys, with support across on-premises and cloud environments and built-in compliance checks.
The following month, Anchorage Digital integrated with Puffer Finance to offer liquid restaking on Ethereum, allowing clients to stake Ether (ETH) and receive pufETH, a transferable token representing a restaked position that continues earning rewards.
While staking — that is, earning rewards for securing a network — was traditionally limited to proof-of-stake assets, similar yield strategies are emerging for Bitcoin (BTC) via decentralized finance (DeFi) integrations.
Lombard recently teamed with Bitwise Asset Management to enable institutions to earn yield and borrow against Bitcoin without moving assets out of custody, combining DeFi lending and tokenized real-world assets with infrastructure from Morpho.
Similarly, Fireblocks has integrated Stacks to provide institutional access to Bitcoin-based lending and yield, using faster block times while settling transactions on Bitcoin for finality.
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