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View from the Arch Ep 3: Nathan McCauley (CEO, Anchorage Digital)

View from the Arch Ep 3: Nathan McCauley (CEO, Anchorage Digital)

Nathan McCauley is the CEO of Anchorage Digital, the first federally chartered digital asset bank in the U.S. Under his leadership, Anchorage provides secure custody, trading, and financing solutions for institutions.

In this interview, Nathan discusses Anchorage’s role in shaping the future of regulated digital asset services.This is the third episode of our new podcast, View From the Arch, where we interview industry leaders on their personal and professional journeys in an off-the-cuff, personal conversation. In this episode, topics covered include:

  • Nathan's background as an engineer and how he went from being an early employee at Square to co-founding Anchorage with his coworker

  • Deciding to build a custodian in 2017 and outcompeting the market and acquiring the only OCC charter for a custodian

  • Does Nathan believe that custody is zero sum?

  • Nathan's learnings for crypto borrow/lend in the last cycle and as an Arch investor

  • The future of USDG

Listen to the full episode here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1AcWO5ztWSwVGjfwWiRwzB?si=1f16ad788144456f

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595 Broadway, Floor 4
New York, NY 10007
+1 201-690-7206

ChainFi Inc (dba "Arch") is not a bank. ChainFi Inc (NMLS #2637200) provides certain financial services. NMLS Consumer Access

Crypto backed loans are offered to U.S. borrowers by ChainFi Inc and are not available to U.S. residents of AL, CA, DE, HI, ID, IL, LA, MI, MN, MS, MT, NV, ND, OH, RI, SC, SD,, TX, VT, VA, or WA or to U.S. businesses in CA, DC, HI, LA, MI, MT, NV, NM, ND, RI, SD, UT, or VT.

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