Indirect Custody
Indirect custody is an arrangement in which an organization relies on an intermediary that uses another custodian or custody layer to safeguard…
Wallets, Custody & Treasury
Wallets, custody models, key management and treasury operations.
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Individual Wallet
An individual wallet is a wallet assigned to and primarily controlled for one person rather than a shared organization, pooled account, or…
Institutional Custody
Institutional custody is a professional custody service designed to safeguard assets for organizations under formal governance, compliance, reporting, and operational controls. Reliable…
Institutional Wallet
An institutional wallet is a wallet environment built for organizations that require governed access, multiple roles, policy enforcement, reporting, and high-value operations.…
Inter-Wallet Transfer
An inter-wallet transfer directly moves digital assets between two distinct wallet domains, accounts, providers, owners, or control environments. The operating model for…
Intra-Wallet Transfer
An intra-wallet transfer reallocates value between accounts, subaccounts, portfolios, or balances inside the same wallet or provider environment. Reliable use of Intra-Wallet…
Invisible Wallet
An invisible wallet is wallet infrastructure hidden behind an application's normal account experience so users transact without interacting with a separate wallet…
Joint Wallet
A joint wallet is a wallet intended for two or more people who share defined rights to view, approve, recover, or use…
Key Backup
A key backup is a protected copy or recovery representation of cryptographic key material used to restore signing or decryption capability. Operational…
Key Custody
Key custody is the governance and protection of cryptographic keys throughout generation, storage, access, use, backup, recovery, rotation, and destruction. Secure use…
Key Management System (KMS)
Key Management System (KMS) is a system that manages cryptographic keys and their metadata through controlled generation, storage, access, use, rotation, recovery,…
Key Pair
Key Pair is a mathematically linked public key and private key used for asymmetric cryptographic operations such as signing and signature verification.…
Key Recovery
Key recovery is the controlled process of restoring access to cryptographic signing or decryption authority after the normal key path becomes unavailable.…
Key Vault
Key Vault is a protected system or logical boundary designed to store and control use of cryptographic keys, secrets, or signing material.…
Keyless Wallet
A keyless wallet is a user-facing wallet that avoids requiring the user to manage one conventional standalone private key or seed phrase.…
Managed Wallet
A managed wallet is a wallet whose infrastructure, security operations, policy, or custody is administered partly or entirely by a service provider.…
Master Seed
Master Seed is the root secret material from which a hierarchical deterministic wallet derives master keys, accounts, and addresses. It is not…
Master Wallet
A master wallet is a top-level wallet or control domain used to derive, fund, coordinate, or oversee multiple subordinate wallets and accounts.…
Merchant Crypto Holdings
Merchant crypto holdings are cryptoassets economically owned or controlled by a merchant, whether held directly, through custodial accounts, or through other arrangements.…
Merchant Treasury
Merchant treasury is the financial function that manages a merchant's liquidity, balances, settlement funds, currencies, payment obligations, and financial risk. In practice,…
Merchant Wallet
A merchant wallet is a wallet used by a business to receive, hold, refund, convert, settle, or send assets related to commercial…
Metal Backup
A metal backup is a physical recovery record made from durable metal to preserve seed words, key data, or other essential wallet…
Mnemonic Backup
A mnemonic backup is a human-readable sequence of words used to recreate wallet seed material or another recovery secret under a defined…
Mobile Wallet
A mobile wallet is a wallet application designed for smartphones or tablets that enables portable account access and transaction authorization. Reliable use…