In response to growing institutional demand, Fireblocks has launched an integration with Lido to provide easy and secure in-platform access to Lido’s liquid staking protocol and stETH token. Users can now stake their ETH, receive rewards, and use stETH for on-chain activities, including Fireblocks Off Exchange, which allows Fireblocks users to lock their stETH in a self-custodial collateral wallet to trade on exchanges like Deribit and Bybit.

New analysis of blockchain activity shows scammers are needing less time to obtain crypto payments and are seeing higher payoffs per scam. I continue to repeatedly cover breakdowns of cybercrime activity from the folks at Chainalysis because it represents an unbiased view that some security vendors may inherently have (because their data is based on what their solutions do and don’t discover).

In the ever-evolving landscape of global finance, a new paradigm is emerging that promises to reshape assets, investments, and financial transactions at a fundamental level. Welcome to the era of tokenization.

The operational infrastructure for digital asset security has been continuously evolving – shifting from single-key hardware wallets, to multi-sig smart contract wallets, to MPC or HSM-powered wallets. This infrastructure improvement has created greater operational efficiency, enabling trading firms to deploy more capital without compromising on security.

Download the “Solving the Crypto Trading and Operations Trilemma” cheat sheet The crypto trading and operations trilemma addresses three potentially complementary but opposing forces from an operations perspective – security, efficiency, and scalability. Security is the actual safety of your firm’s own funds, or those it manages on behalf of clients. Efficiency is how quickly you can respond to market moves, transfer assets, and settle balances.

As crypto markets continue to grow, there’s never been more competition for exchanges to grow their retail and institutional user bases. To create a competitive advantage against industry stalwarts (like Coinbase, Binance, or Gemini), exchanges must overcome key challenges that impact their ability to scale, offer differentiated products & services, and remain as secure as possible.

Download the “4 Ways Exchanges Can Create a Competitive Advantage in Today’s Market” cheat sheet As crypto markets continue to grow, there’s never been more competition for exchanges to grow their retail and institutional user bases. To create a competitive advantage against industry stalwarts (like Coinbase, Binance, or Gemini), exchanges must overcome key challenges that impact their ability to scale, offer differentiated products and services, and remain as secure as possible.

Recently, there have been a number of attacks on high-profile centralized exchanges (CEXs) in the digital asset space. We feel it is critical to highlight some of the most common attack vectors in this area so that, in the future, CEXs can adequately protect themselves, their institutional trading partners, and their retail customers.

Blockchain technology continues to grow in prominence, and as it expands, a wide range of businesses are looking to develop digital asset products. At the same time, many startups are launching with digital assets at the center of their businesses. If you are running a digital asset business or building a blockchain product, it’s important to consider what type of custody management solution will best support your business.