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Stablecoin issuer Agora Finance has filed for a national trust bank charter as it seeks to expand its business in the United States. The company said the move is intended to give it access to the U.S. market under a unified federal regulatory framework, noting that its stablecoin issuance business is nearly two years old.
Agora’s AUSD stablecoin has been in operation for nearly two years and has generated “tens of billions” in transfer volume, according to the company’s post. The company designed AUSD to support business use cases including cross-border money movement, payroll management, and payments.
Agora is currently operating in Bermuda under a full license. It is now pursuing a national trust bank charter in the U.S. to establish a direct relationship with federal regulators, operate under rules designed for scale, and offer a broader suite of regulated financial products to U.S. customers under a federal framework.
Beyond stablecoin issuance, Agora said it is building a broader financial operating system for global businesses. The system includes settlement infrastructure, treasury management, fiat connectivity, and tools intended to help businesses interact with digital dollars.
“The charter is the regulatory layer that makes all of that possible at scale,” van Eck wrote in the post. “Operating without a U.S. federal charter means renting the rails in the world’s most important financial market.”
In July 2025, Agora raised $50 million in a Series A funding round. In a LinkedIn article at the time, the company said it had shipped foundational elements for AUSD and was working to deepen the connection between onchain and fiat infrastructure layers.
Agora also announced the launch of a white-labeled stablecoin product designed to enable enterprises and teams to issue their own branded stablecoin in days.
Agora said its objective is to support an ecosystem in which creating, managing, and integrating stablecoins is “seamless,” so that FinTechs, exchanges, and enterprises can benefit from having their own stablecoin—whether AUSD or new USD—positioned as a product feature, revenue growth lever, and strategic differentiator.
“We aim to foster an ecosystem where creating, managing and integrating stablecoins becomes seamless so that every FinTech, exchange and enterprise can benefit from having its own stablecoin whether it be AUSD or new USD—as a product feature, revenue growth lever and strategic differentiator,” Agora wrote in the article.
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