Cold Storage

Samsung Adds Ledger Wallet Support in Latest Crypto Tie-Up

The cold-storage option comes as monthly active users have doubled over the past seven months, Samsung said.

Business  ·  13 May 2021

BitGo Adds $600M in Insurance Capacity to Comfort Big-Time Bitcoin Holders

Bolstered by a wave of institutional crypto investors, BitGo is in a race against its peers to add insurance coverage.

Business  ·  21 April 2021
Security

Uphold Integrates Ledger Tools to Boost Crypto Storage Solution

Payments startup Uphold is implementing hardware and software from Ledger's Vault to improve its cold storage solution for investors.

Business  ·  13 May 2019
Exchanges

Coinbase Completes First OTC Crypto Trade Directly From ‘Cold’ Storage

Coinbase Custody has just completed its first over-the-counter (OTC) trade directly out of cold, or offline, storage.

Policy & regulation  ·  13 March 2019
TokenSoft

TokenSoft Launches Crypto Custody Service for Security Tokens

TokenSoft is rolling out what it bills as the first cold-storage multi-signature wallet designed specifically for security tokens.

Business  ·  29 January 2019
Japan

Japan’s SBI Invests $15 Million In Crypto Card Wallet Maker Tangem

Japanese financial services giant SBI Group has invested $15 million in slimline cold wallet provider Tangem.

Policy & regulation  ·  21 January 2019
Coinbase

Coinbase Just Moved $5 Billion in Crypto to Prepare for Token Expansion

Crypto exchange startup Coinbase just move a huge chunk of all the cryptocurrency in circulation.

Markets  ·  19 December 2018
Dapps

Sirin Labs’ $999 Blockchain Phone Will Start Shipping in December

The Finney phone should begin shipping next month. It aims to stand out from the rest with a built-in cold storage wallet.

Markets  ·  29 November 2018
Exchanges

The Crypto Insurance Market May Total $6 Billion. That’s Nowhere Near Enough

There is less than $5 billion of global capacity to insure crypto wallets held in custody. Coinbase has secured a significant chunk of that.

Policy & regulation  ·  21 November 2018
Patents

Bank of America Patent Hints at Plan to Store Cryptocurrency Keys

A new Bank of America patent outlines a "hardened storage device" that can protect private keys from theft.

Business  ·  30 October 2018
Bitcoin

Payments Startup Square Is Open-Sourcing Its Bitcoin Storage Solution

Mobile payments startup Square has open-sourced the code and tools for its "Subzero" bitcoin cold storage system.

Tech  ·  23 October 2018
BitGo

The $1 Trillion Wallet: BitGo’s Big Plan to Secure the Biggest Bitcoin Fortunes

Blockchain security startup BitGo is gearing up to safeguard once-unthinkable sums of digital assets as it looks towards a tokenized future.

Business  ·  28 September 2018
Wallets

SBI Bank’s Venture Arm Invests In Crypto Wallet Creator

SBI Holdings, the financial services arm of the SBI Group, has bought a 40 percent stake in cryptocurrency hardware wallet maker CoolBitX.

Business  ·  5 March 2018
Crime

Crypto Rich and Paranoid: Threats Prompt Radical Security in Bitcoin Land

Cryptocurrency users who got rich in the run-up are now targets for robbers and kidnappers, not just hackers. That’s prompting a security overhaul.

Policy & regulation  ·  3 February 2018
Elliptic

Bitcoin ‘Vault’ Elliptic Meets Global Auditing Standard

Bitcoin storage service Elliptic has obtained ISAE 3402 accreditation from auditing specialist KPMG.

Business  ·  12 January 2015