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May 17, 2026

Institutional Custody - How to Choose The Best One

A viewer asked: Institutional custody is not equal, okay? This recording is Jake Claver's answer, in full and unedited.

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What this recording covers

Claver outlines five essential criteria for evaluating qualified institutional custody solutions for digital assets. He identifies proper financial licensing, commercial insurance coverage, segregated account structures, legal bankruptcy remoteness, and compliance with federal physical infrastructure standards as critical requirements. Claver explains that qualified custodians deploy hardware security modules housed in secure Level 4 facilities to distribute cryptographic key shards globally. He contrasts this physical architecture with software-only multiparty computation models, which function as connected environments and do not satisfy domestic federal standards on their own. Claver emphasizes that institutional custodians integrate specialized hardware modules with software frameworks to meet rigorous regulatory and security benchmarks for institutional clients across enterprise operations and institutional fund management.

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