Curated Anchor Providers
Anchors are regulated entities that bridge fiat currencies and the Stellar network. Each anchor operates in specific regions with different capabilities.
What We Look For
We curate against two lenses — a commercial bar (real local value for end-users) and a developer bar (can you actually build on it).
Commercial
- Locally denominated asset (stablecoin or stablebond) on Stellar
- Support for local payment rails connected to Stellar
- Competitive rates (wholesale <25 bps conversion)
- Deep liquidity for low slippage (local ↔ global assets)
Developer
- Open self-service access (credentials + sandbox, no human in the loop)
- Accurate, well-documented API (docs match the wire)
- High-fidelity sandbox (a completed test ramp lands real on-chain testnet tokens)
- Agent-buildable (machine-readable docs/spec, diagnosable failures)
- Fee/rate discoverability (costs findable via pricing docs or a quote/fee API)
Providers that don't yet meet these criteria appear as alternatives on individual region pages.
Etherfuse
Etherfuse bridges traditional finance and decentralized finance, making financial systems more inclusive, transparent, and efficient for everyone.
Commercial
- met: Locally denominated asset
- met: Local payment rails
- met: Competitive rates
- met: Deep liquidity
Developer
- met: Open self-service access
- met: Accurate docs
- met: High-fidelity sandbox
- met: Agent-buildable
- met: Fee discoverability
Koywe
Koywe is a Latin American crypto-finance infrastructure provider offering fiat on/off ramps between local currencies and stablecoins. It ramps Argentine pesos (ARS), Mexican pesos (MXN), and Colombian pesos (COP) to USDC on Stellar via local rails — CVU/QR in Argentina, SPEI in Mexico, and PSE in Colombia.
Commercial
- failed: Locally denominated asset
- met: Local payment rails
- partial: Competitive rates
- unverified: Deep liquidity
Developer
- partial: Open self-service access
- met: Accurate docs
- met: High-fidelity sandbox
- partial: Agent-buildable
- met: Fee discoverability
Manteca
Manteca is a Buenos Aires-based B2B financial-infrastructure provider whose crypto API lets fintechs embed on/off ramps across 12 LatAm markets. In Brazil it ramps Brazilian reais (BRL) to USDC on Stellar via PIX, orchestrating fiat deposit, conversion, and crypto settlement in a single "synthetic" operation.
Commercial
- failed: Locally denominated asset
- met: Local payment rails
- failed: Competitive rates
- met: Deep liquidity
Developer
- failed: Open self-service access
- partial: Accurate docs
- met: High-fidelity sandbox
- met: Agent-buildable
- met: Fee discoverability
Test Anchor
The Stellar Development Foundation reference anchor (testanchor.stellar.org). It implements the full SEP stack on testnet and is wired here as a dual-facet anchor: SEP-24 interactive (the default flow) and SEP-6 programmatic, both authenticated with SEP-10 wallet signatures.
Commercial
- unverified: Locally denominated asset
- unverified: Local payment rails
- unverified: Competitive rates
- unverified: Deep liquidity
Developer
- met: Open self-service access
- met: Accurate docs
- met: High-fidelity sandbox
- met: Agent-buildable
- met: Fee discoverability