Wells Fargo Files WFUSD Trademark for Crypto Services

Wells Fargo, one of the largest U.S. banks with approximately 1.9 trillion dollars in assets, has filed a trademark application for WFUSD with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, signaling potential expansion into digital assets and blockchain services. The application, submitted on March 9, 2026, and publicly listed the following day, covers a range of cryptocurrency-related offerings and appeared in USPTO records early the next week. It remains live and pending, having met minimum filing requirements but not yet assigned to an examining attorney.

The trademark, a standard word mark without associated logos, spans three international classes. Class 009 includes downloadable software for trading digital assets, processing payments, operating digital wallets, and handling stablecoin transactions. Class 036 encompasses financial services such as cryptocurrency exchange and brokerage, payment processing for virtual currencies, electronic transfers, staking, and providing financial data feeds for blockchain-based smart contracts. Class 042 addresses software-as-a-service platforms for tokenizing assets, managing blockchain trading and payment infrastructure, verifying...