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Bank

Wells Fargo & Company

The fourth-largest US bank by total assets, with about $1.99tn in 2025, which filed a trademark application for WFUSD on 11 March 2026 without saying whether the product would be a deposit token or a stablecoin.

Kind Bank
Jurisdiction United States
Founded 1852
Stories filed 0

The profile

Founded in 1852 by Henry Wells and William Fargo, it is the fourth-largest US bank by total assets, with about $1.99tn of assets in 2025 and more than 70 million customers across banking, mortgage, wealth and card businesses. It filed a trademark application with the US Patent and Trademark Office for WFUSD on 11 March 2026, covering cryptocurrency payment processing, digital asset trading and software for asset tokenisation, without saying whether the product would be a deposit token or a stablecoin. In July 2026 it was reported among the banks joining the shared tokenized deposit network to be operated by The Clearing House, which the owner banks intend as interoperable digital cash inside the regulated banking system and have targeted for the first half of 2027, a defence of deposit funding rather than a new revenue line.

Products and services

WFUSD (trademark filing)
Mark filed in March 2026 for payment processing, digital asset trading and tokenisation software; no product structure has been disclosed.
Tokenized deposit network participation
Membership of the bank-owned network operated by The Clearing House that would move tokenized deposit balances between participating banks.

No development naming Wells Fargo & Company has yet been filed against a primary source. The register entry stands so the institution, its jurisdiction and its products are on the record.

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