Anchored Finance AG announced today that it has been approved as a member of the Swiss self-regulatory organization VQF. VQF is recognized by the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA). This approval marks a regulatory milestone for Anchored in expanding its institutional digital asset business, which includes encrypted OTC services, segregated custody of qualified crypto assets, and financial operations under customer instructions.

This membership covers the operational core upon which institutional counterparties rely: a OTC trading desk for the exchange of crypto assets for fiat currencies, a system for fully isolating wallets to hold qualified crypto assets, as well as operations on digital assets under customer instructions.

For professional and institutional clients, this approval unlocks what Anchored refers to as the financial operations layer: providing stablecoin and fiat currency operation support through banking and custody partners, wallet setup and governance, customer-approved transfers, exchanges, and settlements, as well as reconciliation and reporting materials for CFO and auditors to use.

Anchored CEO Wenny Cai stated: "Obtaining VQF membership is an important milestone for Anchored. Our goal is to make the global capital market more programmable, transparent, and accessible through on-chain channels, while treating compliance as a core infrastructure rather than an after-the-fact addition. Switzerland provides a solid foundation for this work, and this membership will help us enhance the control, governance, and operational capabilities that our institutional partners expect."

Cai added, "The capital market needs infrastructure that can operate across borders and asset classes, without compromising on investor protection or operational discipline. This is an important step towards providing the expected governance infrastructure for institutional partners."

About Anchored

Anchored Finance is building the digital operational layer for global capital markets. Anchored connects compliant asset issuance, institutional-level liquidity, on-chain settlement, and global distribution across asset classes, with the aim of creating the next generation of capital formation platforms that make financial assets more accessible, programmable, and available for use 24/7.

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