Summary: AnchorWatch is Bitcoin custody-and-insurance infrastructure. The real substance is the Trident vault stack plus the underwriting and recovery policy wrapped around it, not generic insured self-custody branding. Keep it for the timelock / recovery / insurance-control mix, not as a broad custody hub.
What it does:
Offers Bitcoin custody products that let customers keep some or all key control while layering in institutional controls and optional insurance
Provides Lloyd’s of London-backed insurance products for custody, mining, cyber/E&O, D&O, GPL, and kidnap-and-ransom use cases
Runs Trident, a Bitcoin-native custody platform built around multisig scripts, timelocks, and recovery logic, and licenses that platform to enterprises
Markets multiple custody models including flagship custody and multi-institution custody, with qualified-custodian availability framed as an expected 2026 milestone
Positions inheritance, business continuity, compliance, and recovery as core design features rather than edge-case add-ons
Key claims:
The homepage says AnchorWatch combines “advanced Bitcoin-native vault technology with optional Lloyd’s of London insurance,” which is a stronger framing than either pure insurance or pure custody alone
The site repeatedly frames AnchorWatch as a regulated Lloyd’s of London Coverholder and emphasizes the ability to write dedicated policies up to large coverage limits, which makes insurance issuance part of the core operating model rather than a partner afterthought
The Trident page says the platform enforces security, compliance, and recovery “at the protocol level,” with timelocks and alternative spending conditions designed to preserve recoverability without giving up Bitcoin-native security properties
The custody-insurance page explicitly covers theft, coercion, disaster-related loss, and fraud or collusion by institutional key holders, revealing a risk model that spans both operational and physical threats
The Trident enterprise page says exchanges, advisors, banks, and financial institutions can license the custody platform for their own services, which supports cataloging AnchorWatch as infrastructure instead of only as an end-user product
Whitepaper: No canonical AnchorWatch whitepaper or litepaper surfaced in this pass. The clearest current sources of truth are the official site and product pages for custody, insurance, and Trident; see ../whitepapers/anchorwatch-primary-sources-2026-04-28.md.