AsiaStrategy has chosen Anchorage Digital to manage and secure its Bitcoin holdings and settle transactions related to its treasury activities. On September 30th, the company acquired 30 BTC.
According to AsiaStrategy, this agreement encompasses international financial processes between the United States and Asia. Anchorage Digital will act as the main guardian and technological foundation for executing and finalizing treasury transactions across this region.
Anchorage Digital states that its regulatory status supports this partnership. This includes Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., the only crypto bank in the U.S. with a federal charter, Anchorage Digital Singapore, which holds a license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore, and a New York BitLicense.
Anchorage Digital also mentioned that following the passage of GENIUS legislation, Anchorage Digital Bank became a U.S. federally regulated institution authorized to issue stablecoins. The platform provides custody, trading, and staking services. AsiaStrategy intends to increase its Bitcoin purchases beyond the initial 30 BTC as it develops its treasury.
Asia’s Bitcoin Treasury Leader
This action formalizes the custody and settlement framework that AsiaStrategy has gradually built throughout 2025, repositioning the company towards Bitcoin-focused strategies for institutional investors.
The Hong Kong-based company, traded on Nasdaq under the symbol SORA, rebranded in May. This shift emphasized digital assets and blockchain technologies, following its previous focus on distributing luxury watches.
Since then, the company has integrated public market involvement with operational subsidiaries that accept and settle payments in Bitcoin. This was detailed in previous reports concerning the company’s merger and rebranding with Sora Ventures, alongside connected investments in the region throughout the summer of 2025, including dedicating funding to an Asian Bitcoin treasury strategy.
In September, AsiaStrategy broadened its commercial activities by enabling the sale of high-end timepieces with payments settled in Bitcoin after securing $10 million in funding. This integration aligned retail and treasury functions, using the same assets to synchronize inventory cash flows with Bitcoin liquidity and settlement schedules.
The group has also participated in global transactions focusing on Thailand. An Asian consortium aimed to extend a public-company Bitcoin treasury framework into Southeast Asia’s retail and publicly traded landscape via acquisitions.
Regional growth has been assessed against the scale of the ASEAN economy and the potential to channel balance-sheet Bitcoin through local operational units and listed entities. This was previously detailed in analyses of corporate treasuries exploring an ASEAN Bitcoin treasury approach.
The capacity to fund institutional allocations has progressed in parallel. Earlier in the month, Sora revealed a $1 billion Bitcoin fund, with $200 million already committed. This positions a capital pool that could cooperate with listed-company treasuries, private investment vehicles, and settlement intermediaries across the region, potentially creating counterparties for AsiaStrategy’s treasury operations and Anchorage’s settlement infrastructure.
This fund, combined with Anchorage Digital’s secure custody and settlement services provided by its bank charter, enables larger balance-sheet deployments that require regulated segregation, audited controls, and standardized transaction processes across different legal jurisdictions.
What Impact Does This Have on AsiaStrategy?
From an operational perspective, the Anchorage agreement provides AsiaStrategy with a unified platform to manage secure storage, on- and off-ramp transactions, and execution either directly or through an agent. Simultaneously, it maintains auditability across its Hong Kong, U.S., and Singapore-based entities.
Anchorage Digital states its platform supports institutional transaction lifecycles that can be aligned with corporate accounting periods and public disclosure timelines. It also facilitates stablecoin issuance programs under the new GENIUS regulations.
For AsiaStrategy, this framework reduces complications in reconciling Bitcoin assets for both treasury and commercial purposes. It addresses the finality of settlements, cut-off times, and counterparty risk through a regulated custodian.
AsiaStrategy’s roadmap throughout 2025 illustrates how these elements have been strategically aligned to facilitate treasury deployment.
The company rebranded in May, advanced merger & acquisition and regional strategies in July, expanded its operational infrastructure in September, and now has live custody and settlement services for treasury purchases.
The 30 BTC acquisition on September 30th initiates the balance-sheet component of this plan and sets a benchmark for future purchases. Anchorage serves as the system of record for movements between trading, custody, and settlement accounts.
Luke Liu, AsiaStrategy’s Chief Investment Officer, stated that the company is developing its capacity to scale Bitcoin treasury operations across Asia. He added that the collaboration with Anchorage secures the required infrastructure to execute this plan.
What Makes AsiaStrategy Unique?
The company’s strategy mirrors one employed by other publicly traded companies that funded their Bitcoin balance-sheet initiatives through a blend of equity offerings, operating cash flow, and structured financial instruments. They then integrated these allocations with commercial operations that accept Bitcoin, aiming to shorten settlement timelines.
AsiaStrategy’s watch business, which now supports Bitcoin payments, demonstrates how retail sales can directly contribute Bitcoin flows into the treasury, creating internal offsetting between incoming and outgoing transactions.
When managed through a federally chartered custodian, this setup can streamline oversight for auditors and investors who monitor wallet segregation, role-based permissions, and board-approved treasury guidelines.
AsiaStrategy sets itself apart through its international presence.
With Anchorage Digital Bank in the U.S. and a licensed entity in Singapore, treasury teams can move funds between U.S. dollar systems, Singapore regulatory frameworks, and Hong Kong operations without restructuring custody each time a jurisdiction changes.
Anchorage Digital’s settlement services are designed to link trading venues and over-the-counter transactions with custody movements, a critical function for a publicly listed company that must coordinate disclosure windows, trading blackouts, and insider-trading restrictions with treasury activities.
AsiaStrategy has stated that its initial purchase of 30 BTC isn’t a limit. It plans to increase its holdings while developing its treasury governance under the new custody arrangement.
The company emphasized that Anchorage Digital will remain its primary infrastructure partner for custody and settlement as it makes additional purchases and expands its treasury operations across the U.S.–Asia corridor.
Disclaimer: Sora Ventures is an investor in CryptoSlate.