Xapo Bank is a Bitcoin-enabled private bank that integrates USD banking with Bitcoin custody, fiat rails, stablecoin rails, and BTC rails. Xapo Bank's Twitter Score is 126 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #5,018 (top 5%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Xapo Bank was founded by Wences Casares with the original mission of protecting life savings in Bitcoin, and became known for its high-security physical Bitcoin bunkers and digital asset custody. The bank sold its institutional custody business to Coinbase in August 2019 for $55 million. Xapo Bank is regulated by the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission as a credit institution under Permission No. 23171, and passported its banking license into the United Kingdom in 2024, offering interest-bearing accounts for both Bitcoin and fiat in the UK.
Xapo Bank reached 1 million registered users by the end of 2015, having raised $40 million across its Series A and A1 funding rounds during 2014 and 2015. Backers include Benchmark, Fortress Investment Group, Pantera Capital, and Ribbit Capital. In 2023, Xapo Bank became the first bank to offer an account combining traditional fiat payment rails with stablecoin rails supporting USDC and USDT alongside BTC rails. Xapo Bank is a Principal Member of both Mastercard and Visa, and was previously a founding partner of the Facebook Libra project. The account has published 70,398 posts and has been mentioned by 89 accounts a total of 183 times.
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The accounts that follow Xapo Bank include 476 founders, 111 angel investors, 209 influencers and 27 VCs, among them Brian Armstrong, Erik Voorhees, Laura Shin, Michael Saylor, Fred Ehrsam and CoinDesk.