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Explainer

What is crypto custody?

A short, factual explainer — and how Xchange360 fits in.

In brief

What is crypto custody?

Crypto custody is the safekeeping of digital assets on behalf of an owner by a specialist provider, using secure key management, access controls and segregation. Businesses use a regulated custodian to reduce the operational and security risk of holding private keys themselves and to satisfy compliance expectations.

FAQ

Common questions

Why not self-custody?

At business scale, key management, signing policy, segregation and recovery are hard to run safely in-house. A regulated custodian assumes that operational risk under controls and audit.

Is custody regulated?

It can be. Xchange360 offers custody through regulated entities with segregation and institutional controls; specifics depend on jurisdiction.

See Xchange360’s regulated custody