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Zodia Custody

  • Name: Zodia Custody
  • URL: https://zodia-custody.com/
  • Category: institutional digital-asset custody / off-venue settlement network / white-label custody infrastructure
  • Summary: Zodia Custody is bank-style digital-asset infrastructure. The point is not cold storage by itself. It is the policy shell around custody: Interchange venue access, settlement rules, collateral workflows, and white-label operating rails for institutions that want the whole stack to look domesticated.
  • What it does:
    • Provides segregated institutional custody with air-gapped storage, HSM-based key controls, and entitlement workflows
    • Runs Interchange so institutions can trade, borrow, lend, and post collateral across venues without leaving custody until settlement
    • Supports delivery-versus-payment settlement, gas management, and rules-based netting around institutional trading flows
    • Offers staking, collateral management, and related digital-asset operations on top of the custody layer
    • Markets a white-label SaaS stack so financial institutions can launch branded custody and digital-asset services on Zodia infrastructure
  • Key claims:
    • Zodia markets itself as institutional custody without compromise, with custody, Interchange, and white-label solutions under one brand
    • The custody materials emphasize segregated wallets, insolvency-remote structuring, HSM-based storage, and client-controlled governance flows
    • Interchange is presented as the real differentiator: venue access, lending, borrowing, and settlement without giving up the custody shell first
    • The solutions materials expose a layered model of portal, SaaS middle layer, APIs, controls, and connectivity infrastructure rather than a single vault product
    • The practical read is simple: Zodia matters when a firm wants crypto operations to look like bank-grade workflow software, not just wallet custody
  • Whitepaper: No canonical Zodia Custody whitepaper or litepaper surfaced in this pass. The clearest current source of truth is the official site and product pages for custody, Interchange, and white-label solutions; see ../whitepapers/zodia-custody-primary-sources-2026-04-30.md.
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Internal linkages

  • copper — closest current comparison for custody wrapped around venue reachability and post-trade control

  • fireblocks — stronger institutional operating-system anchor

  • bitgo — more canonical regulated-custody baseline

  • Last reviewed: 2026-05-26 UTC

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