Anchorage Digital Is Building Bitcoin Staking Support for Stacks

Stacks Labs said on September 24 that Anchorage Digital is building support for Bitcoin Staking on Stacks. Anchorage bills itself as America's first federally regulated crypto bank. The plan lets institutions earn rewards paid in bitcoin on coins they keep at the bank.

What Anchorage Clients Would Get

According to the Stacks Labs announcement, clients will enroll in and fund a BTC Bond from their Anchorage Digital Bank, N.A. account. They can watch their assets and receive rewards in BTC on an ongoing basis.

The principal stays with a federally chartered bank for the whole term. It returns to the client at maturity. A participant can also ask to have the BTC unlocked and returned early.

One detail stays outside the bank. Registration and signing on the Stacks side, including the paired STX stake, remain with the client.

Stacks.co carries the full announcement, dated September 24, 2026.

How Staking on Bitcoin Differs

This is not staking in the proof-of-stake sense. Bitcoin Staking holds participating BTC in a consensus-enforced timelock on Bitcoin's base layer, with the option to unlock early.

The coins are not bridged or wrapped. Rewards are denominated and distributed in BTC, not in a Stacks token. Stacks says PoX-5 laid the technical foundation for the product.

That matters for institutions. A bridged or wrapped coin adds a second asset and a second set of risks. Here the principal stays on Bitcoin L1 throughout the term, which is the property Stacks stresses in its post.

The Custody Question

Stacks frames custody as a critical part of the equation for institutions weighing Bitcoin Staking. That is a reasonable reading. Regulated firms often can only hold assets with a qualified custodian.

Anchorage's own pitch leans on its record. Stacks Labs says the bank's security history spans eight years and covers tens of billions of dollars in digital assets across several blockchains. Those figures come from the announcement, and we could not check them independently.

Stacks describes the wider shift as institutions looking beyond simply holding BTC and beginning to put it to work. For that to happen at scale, it says, the infrastructure has to meet institutions where they already operate.

The post also names no client, no first deposit and no reward rate. It describes what Anchorage is building, not something already live for customers. The wording is "is building support," so the timing is open.

Other News From Stacks This Week

Stacks published a weekly roundup on September 25. It reported that Bitcoin Collateral Vaults from the Zest protocol went live on mainnet. Those vaults are aimed at lending and borrowing against bitcoin.

The roundup's own headline pairs the two items, Anchorage joining Bitcoin Staking and the vaults going live. Read together, they show Stacks pushing both a yield product and a lending product for bitcoin holders.

What to Watch Next

Three things will show whether this becomes real usage. First, a launch date from Anchorage. Second, the reward terms clients would see on a BTC Bond. Third, how many institutions actually enroll.

Until then, the announcement is a statement of intent from two companies. It is a clear one, and it puts a federally chartered bank in front of a Bitcoin-native staking design. It is not yet a product with published numbers.

This article is for information only and is not investment advice.