Overview

What is Anchored Finance?

Anchored Finance is a tokenization platform built to deliver onchain access to a wide range of financial assets. Anchored initially allows global investors to tap into U.S. equities, with a growing suite of products such as money market funds, and private credit funds also in the pipeline.

Anchored does this by allowing users to mint and redeem compliant digital tokens that track the price of the underlying assets, fully backed by the underlying instruments. By bringing traditional markets onto blockchain rails, Anchored Finance enhances transparency, improves settlement efficiency, and broadens accessibility to institutional-grade assets. Its APIs also enable third-party builders to create new financial products and integrations, positioning Anchored Finance as foundational infrastructure for the next era of global finance.

What are Anchored tokenized stocks?

Anchored Finance tokenized stocks are digital tokens issued through the Anchored Finance platform. Each token is engineered to mirror the economic performance of the underlying asset. These assets follow a clear naming convention that appends the a prefix to the original ticker. For example, Apple's traditional ticker is AAPL, so its Anchored tokenized equivalent is aAAPL. You can interpret the a designation as representing “Anchored”.

A few key highlights:

• Anchored tokenized stocks have no minting or burning fees. When you place a buy or sell order, the price you see is the exact price you’ll pay or receive, even though it may vary slightly from the price at which Anchored buys or sells the underlying asset.

• Creation and redemption of tokens happen instantly. When you purchase or sell an Anchored tokenized stock, the tokens or stablecoins settle in a single atomic transaction.

• You can also purchase fractional amounts—there’s no requirement to hold whole units.

• The tokens are currently available on Monad blockchain.

• Anchored tokenized stocks are structured to provide economic exposure, not legal ownership, of the referenced asset. This means you can redeem your tokens for stablecoins based on the current value of the underlying, but you do not receive voting rights, shareholder disclosures, or other issuer-level rights associated with holding the traditional security.

• Anchored tokenized stocks are generally available to non-US investors. Subject to certain jurisdictional and other restrictions.

• They are transferrable and DeFi compatible. Anchored tokenized stocks are composable in DeFi protocols that support them. For example, they could be used as collateral for lending or in perps protocols.

• To buy or sell Anchored tokenized stocks directly from the platform, users must complete the Anchored Finance know-your-customer (KYC) or know-your-business (KYB) onboarding process.

• Anchored only accepts professional investors to mint and redeem tokenized stocks

• Anchored tokenized stocks are built with robust investor safeguards at their core. We implement a bankruptcy-remote legal framework supported by a dedicated special purpose vehicle with independent governance. All tokens are fully backed and secured by a first-priority security interest held by an external security agent. Assets are custodied with regulated institutions and verified through daily NAV reporting. The underlying smart contracts undergo rigorous audits, and the platform provides transparent reporting through daily disclosures, monthly reconciliations, and annual audits.