Agora received preliminary conditional approval from the OCC
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In September, we launched USDi with Iris, the financial network telecom operators plug into to earn on the infrastructure they already own. USDi is our AUSD digital dollar under a partner name, issued solely by Agora and backed by the same reserves as AUSD, and it now serves as the native settlement currency on the Iris Network.
Agora has received preliminary conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to establish a federally chartered and supervised national trust bank. The charter will bring Agora’s stablecoin, custody, and transaction infrastructure under direct federal supervision. Here’s what that means for how Agora builds and operates going forward.
WalletConnect’s new State of Compliance and Regulation 2026 report is a clear side-by-side of how the major stablecoin frameworks compare and a few things stood out.
August at Agora: new SVP of Revenue, institutional credit going onchain, rewards on the Platform, Nick on stablecoins’ next chapter, and more.
You can now create a wallet you own without ever leaving the Agora Platform. No external wallet needed.
Match each teammate’s access to their job, protect the actions that move money, and keep a clear record of who can do what. Here is how it works.
Your rewards rate, your rate tiers, your payout history, and your payout destination, together in one place and in your hands.
Today, we welcome Matthew Yehle as Senior Vice President of Revenue. Matthew brings more than two decades of experience helping enterprise finance teams adopt new payments and treasury technology, most recently at Emburse, Airbase, Coupa, and American Express.
DFNS’s new “Stablecoin FX” report is the most thorough map we’ve seen of a market everyone assumes exists and almost nobody has actually built. A few things stood out.
The Agora Platform now shows you a complete, detailed view of every fiat and onchain transaction associated with minting and redeeming AUSD.
Recently we shared what Q1 told us about institutional stablecoin adoption. In short, volume was outpacing every other signal in the market, and that gap was widening. Q2 confirms the trend.
AUSD, the enterprise-grade stablecoin issued by Agora, has crossed 10,000 holders on Monad. Agora and Circle are the largest two stablecoin issuers on the network.
The Stablecoins Most Influential 2026, published by Stablecon, recognises the people shaping the global stablecoin ecosystem across six regions.
Real-time onchain AUSD data and the core authenticated operations, built for both humans and agents.
We are thrilled to welcome Tanya Denisova to Agora! Tanya spent the last 6 years at Robinhood, where she was COO of Robinhood Crypto, scaling operations from three people to a multi-billion dollar business unit.
We built Agora with a clear view of what 2026 would look like for stablecoins. Regulated infrastructure would win, institutional adoption would accelerate, and being the metal compounds your MOAT.
This week, Agora filed its application for Agora National Trust Bank with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). We’ve been building toward this for a while.
Agora is beginning the wind down of AUSD issuance on the Injective network, effective April 3, 2026. AUSD on Injective remains redeemable at par through September 28, 2026.
Money is changing. For millennia, we’ve built systems to move value (from shells to coinage to fiat, from tables to databases to APIs). Every era carried similar constraints: differing financial regimes, slow settlement, and intermediaries.
