Anchorage Launches TRX Staking Amid Institutional Yield Push
Anchorage Digital is letting institutions stake Tron’s native token directly from custody, a move that underscores a broader shift among crypto custodians to offer integrated yield generation as institutional demand for staking grows.
Anchorage Digital now allows institutional clients to stake Tron’s native token, TRX, directly from its custody platform and Porto self-custody wallet. The feature lets investors earn protocol rewards for securing the blockchain without transferring assets to a third-party staking provider. The firm first introduced institutional custody for TRX earlier this year.
The expansion targets significant capital tied to the Tron network, which serves as a primary settlement layer for the stablecoin USDT. Tether’s transparency data indicates roughly $90 billion of USDT circulates on Tron, a network that processed about $2 trillion in USDT transfers during the first quarter of 2026. Anchorage noted the network averaged 10.9 million daily transactions and 3.2 million active addresses in that period.
Anchorage’s TRX rollout reflects a wider pivot among digital asset custodians from pure storage to integrated yield services. In November, Anchorage partnered with Figment to add HYPE staking for the Hyperliquid ecosystem using the same custody-integrated model.
Competitors have executed similar strategies to capture institutional demand for regulated yield. In October 2025, Coinbase and Figment expanded their partnership to let Coinbase Prime clients stake proof-of-stake assets including Solana, Avalanche, Sui and Aptos directly from custody. Four months later, Ripple integrated Figment and Securosys into its institutional custody platform, allowing banks to offer staking without running their own validator infrastructure.
Asset managers are also demanding these integrated services. BitGo expanded a partnership with 21shares in February to provide regulated custody and staking for the firm’s US exchange-traded funds and global exchange-traded products. Corporate crypto treasuries are similarly consolidating their positions, with Bitmine launching its MAVAN staking platform in March. As of Monday, Bitmine held 5.77 million ETH, representing 4.8% of the total supply, and had staked 4.92 million ETH through MAVAN.
For institutional investors, moving assets between custody wallets and staking validators introduces operational and security risks. By embedding staking directly into regulated custody environments, infrastructure providers are removing a major barrier to institutional capital deployment in proof-of-stake networks.
