Decentralised Finance (DeFi) was the story of 2021, with over $100B in total locked value. It’s about a new set of rails, decentralised finance, that challenge the conventions of financial markets today offering an ability to create financial products in a way that is markedly different from Trade Finance (TradFi). …

“Excellence in overcoming inherent risks and complexities of crypto asset safeguarding and administration is becoming a key selection criterion for clients choosing institutional investors and service providers.” Alex Batlin, Founder and CEO, Trustology We explore two solutions — HSM vs MPC — for institutional crypto assets custody and how each…

“DeFi” DApps, or decentralised autonomous financial application services, are attracting the attention of institutional investors and service providers alike e.g. funds focused on DeFi yield, brokers sourcing liquidity from decentralised exchanges (DEXs), etc. But such DApps are neither individuals nor organisations, so how on earth do you stay compliant with…

If you talk about Non-Fungible Tokens or NFTs today, your conversation is going to end up centring on the world of Digital Art, Memes and Basketball GIFs. NFT mania has hit and everywhere you look it’s being discussed, from clubhouse talks to the evening news. Many artists are excited about…

The crypto economy is evolving at lightning speed — over$8 billion in locked DeFi value and nearly$11 billion in traded exchange volumes. The question now is does your institution have the right digital asset custodial partner at the helm for security and access? In just a decade, we have progressed to smart contract-based blockchains supporting thousands of different crypto assets today. Ethereum blockchain technology emerged in 2013 with a promising range of possible decentralized applications or dApps. The concept of decentralised finance (DeFi) was first coined back in 2018 at a meetup hosted…

If you want to do anything interesting in Ethereum, you will have to interact with smart contracts. …