Falcon Finance launches GENIUS-compliant payments stablecoin with Anchorage

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Falcon launches GENIUS stablecoin

Highlights

Falcon Finance launched fUSD, a GENIUS-compliant payments stablecoin backed by U.S. Treasuries and managed by Anchorage Digital Bank’s regulated infrastructure.
fUSD will be deployed as collateral on Ceffu’s MirrorRSV system, enabling institutional clients to use mirrored assets on Binance while holdings remain in cold storage.
Anchorage Digital claims its issuance platform is the first federally regulated stablecoin infrastructure in the U.S., as regulators clarify GENIUS Act requirements for payments stablecoins.

Institutional issuance and compliance structure

As announced by Falcon Finance on Wednesday, the company has selected Anchorage Digital to support the issuance of fUSD, its new payments stablecoin backed by short-dated U.S. Treasuries, cash, and Treasury-backed repos. Anchorage Digital Bank’s federally regulated infrastructure is set to manage the collateral behind the token and uphold AML and KYC standards tied to the product.

Falcon describes fUSD as a regulated counterpart to USDf, its existing overcollateralized synthetic stablecoin, which ranks as the 11th-largest stablecoin by market capitalization. Falcon founding partner Andrei Grachev says the launch gives institutions access to a regulated dollar asset designed for trading venues, collateral workflows, and treasury desks, while adding that Anchorage provides the issuance framework those users increasingly require.

The company is also deploying fUSD as collateral on Ceffu’s MirrorRSV solution, an off-exchange settlement system linked to Binance. The setup allows clients to keep assets in Ceffu cold storage while using a mirrored version as collateral on Binance for margin, futures, and other trading activity.

Regulatory divide shapes stablecoin market

Anchorage says its stablecoin issuance platform is the first federally regulated platform of its kind in the U.S., building on its status as the first federally chartered crypto bank in the country. The company has also supported stablecoin initiatives for groups including Tether and Western Union, and has recently expanded its activity through a cross-border payments tie-up with Mexico’s Grupo Salinas.

The launch of fUSD comes as regulators work through implementation of the GENIUS Act via rulemaking involving the OCC, FDIC, Federal Reserve, and U.S. Treasury. While detailed rules are still being developed, the law broadly requires payments stablecoins to be fully backed by cash-equivalent reserves and issued by licensed entities, leaving synthetic stablecoins such as USDf outside the framework because they typically rely on crypto collateral and staking-based mechanisms.

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