Qualified and regulated custodians for funds, banks, corporates and exchanges.
BitGo, Coinbase Prime and Fidelity Digital Assets compared as qualified custodians: legal entities, audits, insurance, assets, staking and what a custody quote costs, scored on our six weighted criteria and checked on 25 October 2026.
Eight BitGo alternatives, from chartered custodians to MPC wallet platforms, scored against a BitGo benchmark, with BitGo's billing method decoded, Porto's flat fee as implied basis points and year-one self-custody costs, all checked on 25 October 2026.
Nine Fireblocks alternatives, from qualified custodians to MPC wallet platforms, scored on six weighted criteria against a Fireblocks benchmark, with an audit and insurance disclosure matrix and a year-one cost model from public list prices, all checked on 25 October 2026.
BitGo, Anchorage Digital and Fireblocks scored on six weighted criteria, with a legal entity map, audit and insurance disclosure matrix, settlement network comparison and a year-one self-custody cost model from public prices, all checked on 25 October 2026.
Eight institutional crypto custody providers scored on six weighted criteria, with a disclosure matrix of charters, SOC reports, ISO 27001 and stated insurance, year-one MPC platform cost math from public prices and the 2025 SEC trust company letter, all checked on 25 October 2026.