Custody

Custody refers to the secure holding and management of assets, particularly financial or digital assets like cryptocurrencies, by a trusted third party on behalf of an owner. It involves safeguarding these assets and ensuring their proper handling according to regulatory and client requirements.

Why it’s in the news: Custody is in the news due to new regulatory rules from the SEC for crypto assets and the expansion of institutional custody services by major financial firms like Standard Chartered.

Latest on Custody

• Maduro faces new charge of torturing U.S. citizens in custody
• Standard Chartered to expand institutional crypto and RWA custody to Singapore
• Standard Chartered extends digital asset custody to Singapore
• Quantus Network to integrate with Project Eleven’s institutional custody platform
• SEC publishes new crypto custody rules
• SEC proposes new crypto custody rules for investment advisers and funds
• The framework is designed to constrain AI agents' operations within network boundaries to limit potential damage from compromised systems.
• The framework addresses lateral movement, not the initial foothold. More fundamentally, it treats the agent as the threat when the real threat is the human or system that granted it access in the first place. We're constraining the tool instead of fixing the trust model.

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