Custody & Infrastructure: archive
Every Custody & Infrastructure story in Digital Assets, newest first. 34 stories
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Fireblocks denies Visa acquisition talks after Axios reports $2.5 billion approach
A $2.5 billion sale would value Fireblocks at a 69% discount to the $8 billion valuation it reported in 2022.
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Deutsche Bank plans 2027 Asia crypto custody as German launch nears
BaFin authorized the bank under the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets rules on Oct. 12; the German launch remains subject to regulatory approval.
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Quantum Alliance forms as 6.4 million bitcoin have exposed public keys
The nine-company group says the exposure is not exploitable by any existing machine, and it is drafting standards for bitcoin, Ethereum and other networks.
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The Defiant reports up to $93 million drained from 300-plus Ledger wallets
The outlet said the affected devices were tampered with before sale and that Ledger confirmed a physical implant in signers sold through reseller CryptoBilis.
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Coinbase, holder of about 5% of bitcoin, urges quantum migration now
The exchange's blog post sets criteria for a post-quantum upgrade, including how to handle coins that may never move.
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Sberbank added to Bank of Russia crypto exchange register
The bank joined the digital depository register earlier this month and plans to debut products Dec. 1, according to Interfax.
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Standard Chartered adds RLUSD custody in Dubai with LMAX collateral link planned
The Dubai custody is live for eligible clients; a planned LMAX collateral arrangement remains subject to documentation, testing and regulatory approvals.
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XRP Ledger activates permission delegation for banks and stablecoin issuers
The Oct. 8 upgrade lets an account grant a helper up to 10 scoped permissions while keeping its main keys offline.
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Project Eleven and Quantus plan post-quantum custody support for Q1 2027
Institutions would manage Quantus keys through hardware security modules, internal policies and audit systems, the companies said.
Ethereum researcher Justin Drake urges 'bunker mode' over possible AI attacks on wallet keys
Justin Drake says an AI model could break wallet signatures 'in months, not years' and recommends large holders rotate to fresh addresses; CoinDesk reports no practical attack has been demonstrated.
Standard Chartered plans Singapore custody for crypto, stablecoins and tokenized assets
The bank says the service would be housed in its financing and securities-services unit, not retail, with no start date.
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Rain seeks OCC national trust charter for custody and stablecoin reserves
The proposed New York trust bank would take no deposits and would not be FDIC-insured, and the ICBA is suing the OCC over the charter route.
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Anchorage Digital buys payments firm Routable, plans stablecoin and tokenized deposit offerings
Routable will operate under a new brand, and The Defiant reports the stablecoin and tokenized deposit offerings will roll out over the coming quarters
Agora's OCC approval sets up AUSD reserve move to a planned US trust bank
The planned bank would take over issuance and reserves from Agora's Bermuda entity after meeting capital, liquidity and compliance conditions, The Defiant reports.
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Anchorage Digital reportedly cuts 17% of staff after $100 million Tether investment
The Defiant attributes the figure to The Information; the report gives no headcount, date, or detail of which functions lost people.
Payward and Singapore Gulf Bank launch 24/7 dollar settlement for institutional crypto
The service starts with U.S. dollar transactions for select clients in eligible Asian and Gulf jurisdictions.
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BNY in talks with Kraken parent Payward over custody and trading infrastructure
Two people familiar with the discussions say an agreement is not assured and that elements could resemble the infrastructure component of Payward's deal with Nasdaq.
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MetaMask pulls Ethereum staking systems after a security incident
Lido said MetaMask-operated validators began leaving its pool Wednesday, with the last expected to stop staking by Oct. 7.
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IBM's Swift beta sells reach, not settlement
Banks can instruct a tokenized deposit over the payment messages they already send: cheap distribution for a custody platform, and no answer on who holds the asset.
Bitget's move makes off-exchange collateral a baseline
Four venues on one bank's platform turn segregated off-exchange collateral from a marketing line into a cost of doing institutional business.
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Catena's trust charter is a perimeter in waiting
A conditional federal trust charter covering fiat, securities and digital assets gives acquirers one more licensed destination — if Catena can fund it.
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Gemini's $753 million price tag values licenses, not a shrinking exchange
Takeover speculation is unconfirmed, but crypto buyers have been paying for the replacement cost of a U.S. regulatory perimeter.
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Circle's Arc logged 7.83 million transactions, almost none of them payments
Eleven founding validators bought Circle a governance story on day one; the transfer data says the settlement demand has not arrived.
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Deutsche Bank's crypto custody bet is the relationship, not the rails
A short debut asset list and a client-demand caveat mark a follower's strategy in European institutional custody — and a defensible one.
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S&P Global buys the calculation layer under its own index brand
Ten institutions bought into the vendor whose convention will price the tokenized assets their own custodians will have to value.
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Liquid's exit stays shut as Blockstream refuses the ransom
Blockstream's refusal costs it little; 598.5 bitcoin remains outstanding and the only exit from Liquid is still shut.
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Liquid gets most bitcoin back, without a control point
The federation negotiated onchain with the address that drained it; the 15% left behind is the price of the model.
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Why Liquid's 3,998 BTC pause is a custody event
Blockstream froze the sidechain after nearly the whole federation wallet moved through SideSwap's peg-out key; the network says no key was stolen, leaving the real control failure unnamed.
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A blob-space scramble left Robinhood Chain's batches queued for 14 minutes
Robinhood Chain kept producing blocks while its Ethereum batches waited behind Base, leaving app users unaware of the settlement queue.
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OCC returns Zerohash's trust bank charter application
Zerohash's first application was returned as 'materially deficient.' The firm calls the move administrative and plans to refile this month with a narrower request.
Coldcard's $100M hack: the air-gap's blind spot
The wallet never touched the internet, yet it was drained. The vulnerability was in how its seed phrase was created.
GnosisDAO votes to settle Gnosis Chain on Ethereum
The move would release roughly 350,000 GNO and end the treasury's staking subsidy.
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SocGen Forge secures French license for digital-asset custody and trading
France's AMF has licensed Societe Generale's digital-assets arm to hold client crypto, a milestone for bank-run custody.
Citi's Custody+ puts bitcoin on the bank's main institutional rail
Digital assets enter the same custody network as stocks and bonds, shrinking the case for separate crypto custodians.