What is institutional digital asset custody?
Institutional digital asset custody is how regulated institutions secure, hold, and authorize the movement of digital assets. Institutions choose between self-custody, first-party custody (customer maintains licenses), licensed third-party custodians, and hybrid models depending on their regulatory, operational, and risk requirements.
Does Privy take custody of institutional digital assets?
No. Privy provides the wallet and key management infrastructure institutions build on, not custody itself. Keys are split into encrypted shares and reconstituted only inside hardware-isolated trusted execution environments, so neither Privy nor any single party can move institutional assets unilaterally. For customers interested in custodial shapes, Privy offers third-party licensed custody through Bridge or can work with any licensed custody provider of your choosing.
What digital asset custody models can institutions use with Privy?
Institutions can run non-custodial wallets where end clients retain key control, institution-controlled wallets for treasury and internal onchain operations, and custodial wallets backed by a licensed provider. All three run on the same infrastructure through a single API, so institutions can operate them side by side. Custodial wallets are an Enterprise feature, available today with Bridge.
What controls do institutions have over how digital assets move?
Privy’s policy engine enforces institutional governance before any transaction executes, including transfer limits, recipient and contract allowlists, chain restrictions, and rolling spend caps. Institutions layer on permissions and m-of-n approval quorums, with approval thresholds enforced inside Privy’s trusted execution environments so they cannot be bypassed by any single party.
What is a digital money platform for institutions?
A digital money platform is the infrastructure institutions use to hold, move, and deploy digital assets programmatically. With Privy, institutions provision wallets for retail clients, business customers, or internal operations across multiple chains.
How do institutions bring markets and tokenized assets onchain?
Institutions use Privy to provision wallets that let investors hold and transact with tokenized assets without wallet complexity. Swaps are supported across EVM chains, Solana, Tempo, and Robinhood Chain, where tokenized stocks trade as onchain assets, and institutions can offer yield through integrated providers and tokenized money market funds that invest in short-term instruments such as US Treasury bills.
