Crypto withdrawal - Anchorage Digital

A crypto withdrawal moves digital assets out of a wallet with quorum approval on every request. For the shared model, the approval workflow, status values, and fees, see Withdraw. This page covers the crypto-specific payloads. POST /v2/transactions/withdrawal requires the Initiate withdrawals permission and an Ed25519 request signature.

AML questionnaire options

External withdrawals carry AML questionnaire information. You can supply it two ways:

Inline — Provide the full withdrawalAmlQuestionnaire with originator, recipient, and destination details. Use this for any external address.
Inherited from a trusted destination — If the destination is allowlisted as a trusted destination, set withdrawalAmlQuestionnaire.useTrustedDestinationAml to true. The system applies the beneficiary and destination details stored on the trusted destination, so you only provide originatorType and purpose.

{
  "amount": "{quantity}",
  "assetType": "{asset}",
  "source": {
    "id": "{source wallet ID}",
    "type": "WALLET"
  },
  "destination": {
    "id": "{external address}",
    "type": "ADDRESS"
  },
  "description": "{description}",
  "useGasStation": false,
  "withdrawalAmlQuestionnaire": {
    "destinationType": "SELFHOSTED_WALLET",
    "recipientType": "PERSON",
    "purpose": "INVESTMENT",
    "originatorType": "MY_ORGANIZATION",
    "selfhostedDescription": "{wallet description}",
    "recipientFirstName": "{first name}",
    "recipientLastName": "{last name}",
    "recipientFullName": "{full name}",
    "recipientCountry": "US",
    "recipientStreetAddress": "{street}",
    "recipientCity": "{city}",
    "recipientStateProvince": "{state}",
    "recipientPostalCode": "{postal code}"
  }
}

{
  "idempotentId": "{unique ID}",
  "amount": "{quantity}",
  "assetType": "{asset}",
  "source": {
    "id": "{source wallet ID}",
    "type": "WALLET"
  },
  "destination": {
    "id": "{trusted destination ID}",
    "type": "TRUSTED_DESTINATION"
  },
  "description": "{description}",
  "useGasStation": false,
  "withdrawalAmlQuestionnaire": {
    "useTrustedDestinationAml": true,
    "originatorType": "MY_ORGANIZATION",
    "purpose": "INVESTMENT"
  }
}

Fields

Field	Description
`amount`	Quantity as a string, without units.
`assetType`	The asset to withdraw. List supported values via `GET /v2/asset-types`.
`source`	The wallet to withdraw from (`type: WALLET`).
`destination.type`	`ADDRESS` for an external address, `TRUSTED_DESTINATION` for an allowlisted destination, or `WALLET` for an internal wallet.
`description`	Optional context, visible in the iOS app and not published on-chain.
`idempotentId`	Optional client-provided unique ID for safe retries.
`useGasStation`	If `true`, Anchorage Digital pays network fees for supported assets and organizations.
`withdrawalAmlQuestionnaire`	Required for external withdrawals. Provide inline, or set `useTrustedDestinationAml: true` to inherit from a trusted destination. See AML questionnaire.

For assets that use a memo or destination tag, the value is inherited automatically when you withdraw to a trusted destination—you don’t provide assetParameters yourself.

Response

A successful request returns 201 with a withdrawalId:

{
  "data": {
    "withdrawalId": "8696144cca28a634c05858d00e51191408498a7808a837fc4645b4b6997dde09"
  }
}

Track status through the transactions API. See Track movement status.

UTXO assets

For UTXO-based assets, Anchorage Digital exposes a single wallet-level address as the representative address and selects UTXOs randomly across the wallet’s addresses to preserve privacy. Sub-UTXO balances remain visible on-chain.

Troubleshooting

Withdrawals are not queued: a request fails if one is already ongoing for the source. Other request-level failures include an unknown asset, an amount that exceeds available funds (including fees), an invalid destination address, or a key without withdrawal permissions for the vault. If a withdrawal fails when specified at the wallet or address level, try specifying the source at the vault level with a vault ID. After quorum approval, a withdrawal can still fail at execution if there are insufficient funds for the network fee or there’s a blockchain-level failure.

​AML questionnaire options

​Fields

​Response

​UTXO assets

​Troubleshooting

AML questionnaire options

Fields

Response

UTXO assets

Troubleshooting