Fireblocks
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Fireblocks

Institutions don't pick chains. Fireblocks picks chains. The middleware gatekeeper nobody writes about because it's not a protocol.

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Brief

Institutional custody market leader. Powers custody for Plume Network and many tokenization platforms.

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Snapshot

Key terms and identifiers.

Asset value
$10T+ transferred
Spec type
custodian
Charter
MPC custody, not bank-chartered
Specialty
Digital-asset native
Notable clients
Plume Network, BNY tokenization stack, 2000+ institutions
Founded
2018
Asset classes
Treasuries, Private credit, Equities, Commodities
Regulatory
sec-reg-d, sab-121
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Milestones

How this player got here.

  1. Jan 2026Solana institutional treasury partnership: native program calls, gasless transactions, tokenization engine
  2. Dec 2025MoneyGram partnership for stablecoin settlement and treasury operations
  3. Sep 2025Launched Fireblocks Network for Payments: 100+ countries, 40+ institutional participants including Bridge, Circle, Zerohash
  4. Jul 2025Processed $212B in stablecoin volume in a single month (~15% of global stablecoin flow)
  5. Jan 2025Secured $60B+ in digital assets
  6. Mar 2024Tokenization Engine launched
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Connections

Who they build with, build on, integrate with.

Tension

Direct competition or overlapping market position.