Tagged: custody

January 19, 2023 @ 7:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Coincover, which claims to be the leading digital asset protection technology company, announces a new partnership with Fireblocks, an easy-to-use platform “to create innovative products on the blockchain and manage day-to-day crypto operations.” The partnership provides Fireblocks customers “with a secure alternative for key backup… Read More

January 17, 2023 @ 8:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

FNZ, the global wealth management platform, is pleased to announce the acquisition of Fondsdepot Bank, one of the leading independent platforms for trading and custody in Germany. The acquisition represents “a further investment by FNZ in the German market and will bring together the complementary… Read More

December 28, 2022 @ 11:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

As Chainalysis discussed recently, the collapse of FTX and resulting market action prompted large net outflows “from centralized exchanges, as many users shifted their funds to personal wallets, also commonly referred to as ‘unhosted wallets’.” Chainalysis found that while the trend wasn’t “as pronounced as… Read More

November 20, 2022 @ 11:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Amidst recent escalating concerns over digital asset security, global blockchain solutions provider ChainUp Group announced that it is “utilizing the multi-party computation (MPC) technology as part of a multi-layered security architecture to ensure the highest security standards of its digital asset custody solutions.” The multi-layered… Read More

November 14, 2022 @ 5:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Copper.co, provider of institutional digital asset custody and trading solutions, announces  that it “has $500m of insurance for digital assets in cold storage.” Cover has been “arranged by global professional services firm Aon (NYSE: AON), using a panel of insurers led by Canopius, a global… Read More

November 12, 2022 @ 9:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Evmos, the port-of-entry from Ethereum to Cosmos, launched its partnership with Anchorage Digital in order “to offer institutions secure custody and staking of EVMOS, the native token of the platform.” As Evmos continues to attract builders to deploy dApps on its cross-ecosystem interoperability platform, institutions… Read More

October 31, 2022 @ 7:06 pm By JD Alois  |  

Apollo (NYSE: APO), one of the largest private equity and asset managers in the world, has custodied its first digital assets with Anchorage Digital, according to a company statement. Apollo currently has a market cap of over $33 billion. A growing number of banks and… Read More

October 24, 2022 @ 8:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance Custody, an institutional-grade digital asset custody solution, has onboarded risk management tools from TRM Labs, a key player focused on blockchain analytics and intelligence technology. The integration “enables Binance Custody to ensure its regulatory compliance and risk management program for client holdings through TRM’s… Read More

October 17, 2022 @ 11:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Developed by Lockton’s Emerging Asset Protection (LEAP) team in collaboration with global custody insurers, the facility is supported by Lloyd’s syndicates, together with “highly rated” insurance companies. This provides Lockton clients with policy wording and full access to London market capacity, estimated today “to be… Read More

October 5, 2022 @ 3:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Matrixport, which claims to be one of the world’s largest digital assets financial services ecosystems, has announced the securing of $50 million of insurance coverage for digital assets held “in cold storage with Cactus Custody, its institutional custodian.” In addition to enjoying additional insurance coverage,… Read More

September 28, 2022 @ 8:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Anchorage Digital is pleased to announce its role “as one of the preferred institutional custodians for Aptos at mainnet launch.” Aptos is described as “a next-generation Layer 1 blockchain, built with safety and user experience in mind, enabling developers to build scalable, consumer-ready projects.” The… Read More

September 13, 2022 @ 2:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Anchorage Digital is pleased to announce the expansion of their institutional crypto custody platform to include AXL, the digital token that will “play a central role on the Axelar blockchain, which is expected to be live at the end of September 2022.” Axelar is a… Read More

September 1, 2022 @ 10:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fireblocks, the provider of digital asset and crypto custody technology, and Tokeny, the tokenization solution provider, announced their partnership “to provide a turnkey and enterprise-grade solution for tokenization using the ERC-3643 market standard on Polygon.” Institutions seeking to mint and manage permissioned tokens such as… Read More

August 27, 2022 @ 4:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Liminal, a wallet operations infrastructure, extended its existing partnership with Polygon to offer staking “within the digital wallet platform.” Digital asset holders may now “benefit from the security of Liminal’s self-custody wallets along with the earnings potential of staking on Polygon.” Furthermore, with this announcement… Read More

August 4, 2022 @ 11:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitso, the cryptocurrency platform in Latin America with over 5 million users, and Everest, the “first” licensed crypto custodian offering stablecoins, announced their partnership to provide Everest users “with the ability to receive cross-border transactions from the US, Europe, and Singapore into Mexico.” The Mexico-US… Read More

August 2, 2022 @ 10:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at digital assets firm Gemini are pleased to further their partnership with  Australian fund manager Holon Global Investments, “serving as the custodian partner for their unlisted retail Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and Filecoin (FIL) funds.” The BTC, ETH, and FIL held by the… Read More

August 2, 2022 @ 10:08 am By JD Alois  |  

Fireblocks, a digital asset services firms that provides custody solutions, has partnered with Tokeny – a top security token platform. According to a company statement, Fireblocks aims to provide the ability for customers to mint and manage permissioned digital assets such as securities and stablecoins…. Read More

July 28, 2022 @ 11:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Atato, a licensed digital asset custodian offering MPC custodial solution aimed at corporates and institutions, announced the close of their successful Series A round, “affirming bullish sentiment for infrastructure projects in blockchain-related markets.” Led by AlphaLab Capital and FEBE Ventures, Atato’s Series A investment round… Read More

July 26, 2022 @ 10:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-based banking institution Barclays has reportedly taken a stake in Copper via the cryptocurrency custody company’s recent funding round and has invested substantially even though there’s less enthusiasm for volatile crypto-assets. This, according to an update from Sky News. Established back in 2018, Copper offers… Read More

July 1, 2022 @ 8:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Societe Generale – FORGE, a “fully” integrated subsidiary of Societe Generale, providing issuers and investors with end-to-end services to issue, invest and manage digital-native security tokens registered on public blockchains, has selected METACO, a provider of digital asset management technology and infrastructure, “to orchestrate its… Read More