As on-chain yield demand accelerates, Summer.fi Institutional is equipping custodians and asset managers with compliant vault infrastructure, unlocking crypto-native yield through automation, transparency, and policy control.

As the digital asset ecosystem matures, institutions face rising threats from cyberattacks, insider risks, and governance gaps. Ledger Enterprise outlines how modern custody solutions — built on hardware-backed protection and embedded governance — can deliver the resilience and transparency institutional investors demand.

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Are specialist intermediaries such as market-makers necessary to generate liquidity in tokenised asset markets? Traditional markets prove that liquidity does not arise naturally from the interaction of issuers and investors, and cannot be sustained by their activities either, but must instead be created by market-makers and sell- and buy-side firms using collateralised credit and asset borrowings to take positions and increase the value of their trades (see Chart 1). So liqui

Digital asset custody: What can possibly go wrong?

How do the risks of digital asset custody differ from the risks of traditional custody? Digital assets are not the same as conventional financial assets, so custodians must master familiar risks in unfamiliar guises, and entirely new risks. The fact that ownership of a digital asset depends on possession of private keys is an obvious difference from registered securities or funds. The keys are routinely sharded into multiple parts which must not only be reassembled as needed

How is the digital asset custody industry evolving? The origins of digital asset custody lie in the initial cryptocurrency boom of 2015-2017. Retail investors needed digital wallets to hold the private keys to their coins, and the cryptocurrency exchanges provided them. Independent digital asset custodians, and vendors of independent digital asset custody technologies, proliferated in 2017 and especially 2018, as the first cryptocurrency bubble inflated and then deflated.  At

Custodians have been obliged since 2019 to check that holders of cryptocurrencies and Stablecoins are not money launderers, terrorists or sanctions evaders. (1)  What impact have those obligations had on the day-to-day practice of digital asset custodians?  Both traditional custodian banks and specialist digital asset custodians have recognised the need to comply with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) obligations to run Anti Money Laundering (AML), Countering the Financi

Why do digital asset custodians exist at all when blockchain was invented to eliminate the need for trusted intermediaries? Issuers and investors, and intermediaries such as asset managers and brokers, are agreed that custodians are essential to secure mainstream adoption of digital assets. Such universal agreement reflects the fact that custodians reassure investors, asset managers and brokers that their assets are safe, and their privacy and confidentiality will be respecte

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