Anchorage Digital has integrated Uniswap's Trading API into its institutional-grade self-custody wallet, Porto, enabling institutional clients to access decentralized liquidity directly from the Anchorage web dashboard without needing third-party decentralized applications (dApps). This integration facilitates seamless and secure trading using the Uniswap Protocol and UniswapX liquidity pools within a compliant and regulated environment.
The service targets asset managers, liquid funds, protocol foundations, and corporate treasuries, allowing them to execute trades efficiently while preserving Anchorage’s high security standards, including air-gapped hardware security modules. By embedding the Uniswap API, Anchorage eliminates operational friction, enhances pricing efficiency, and offers protection against maximal extractable value (MEV) exploits.
Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., the only federally chartered crypto bank in the United States, supports a robust infrastructure for custody, trading, staking, settlement, governance, and institutional digital asset participation. The bank recently became the digital asset service provider for BlackRock, broadening its role in custody services for BlackRock’s spot crypto exchange-traded products and institutional liquidity funds.
The partnership underscores a broader trend of accelerating institutional adoption of decentralized finance (DeFi). Uniswap Labs, the developer of the Uniswap Protocol and Trading API, sees this integration as a milestone that anchors DeFi liquidity as a core component of the global financial ecosystem. The collaboration offers a compliant, user-friendly interface for complex DeFi markets, facilitating access to liquidity across 14 blockchains, including Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, Polygon, and Unichain.
Though Anchorage Digital is expanding its institutional reach, it is also under investigation by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s El Dorado Task Force for potential financial misconduct, while maintaining regulatory approvals in multiple jurisdictions.