Trade, settle and safeguard digital assets for corporates, private investors, trusts and single-family offices.
Begin your applicationTreasuries already blend cash, credit and property to spread risk. Digital assets add a sleeve with a different return driver — one that behaves unlike the rest of the balance sheet through a cycle.
Many treasurers treat bitcoin as hard collateral — a scarce reserve asset held to protect purchasing power when currencies drift.
As settlement moves on-chain and adoption widens, operating companies see room for appreciation that conventional cash management cannot reach.
Move value across borders in minutes, at a fraction of correspondent banking cost.
Digital rails reach regions where correspondent banking is thin or unavailable. Accepting on-chain payment widens your counterparty base and shortens the cash conversion cycle for cross-border trade.
Several jurisdictions extend specific reliefs and incentives to holdings and transactions in digital assets.
Hardened security: threshold signing, strict hot and cold segregation, DDoS mitigation, phishing-resistant MFA and quarterly external review.
Monthly attestations on reserves, venue metrics and compliance certifications, published in full.
Read our security postureClient assets face Kestrel Trust Company — a fiduciary and qualified custodian chartered under the Ardenne Banking Code, with assets held off balance sheet.
✓ Licensed and examined by the Ardenne State Financial Authority (ASFA).
Complete your application in roughly 18 minutes*.
A named relationship desk, reachable around the clock in six languages.
Priority review for existing counterparties and referred entities.
Trade with depth, advanced order types and cross-margin on a venue built for institutional flow.
Learn moreThe desk terminal carries real-time depth, cross-collateral margining, algorithmic child orders and eleven order types across spot and perpetuals.
Account structures let you segregate client portfolios, delegate trading authority per manager and set pre-trade limits at the entity level.
Connect your own systems for order placement and market data over REST, FIX 4.4 and a low-latency WebSocket feed, with sandbox keys on day one.
Assets rest in offline vaults using multi-party signing, role-based governance and layered biometric and physical access control across three regions.
With Instant Settle you can trade directly on the Kestrel venue against balances that never leave offline storage.
Pricing is negotiated per relationship — we build a schedule around your flow, asset mix and reporting needs.
Earn protocol rewards by helping secure proof-of-stake networks, on a supervised and fully reported platform.
Learn moreInstitutions of any size get simplified access to validation rewards without running node infrastructure in house.
Kestrel Staking pays competitive rates and lets you begin with any amount — there is no minimum position.
Staking Pro adds priority rewards, on-chain data exports and segregated reward addresses per entity.
*Total time varies with the information available to you at the moment you apply, and excludes the time review and approval may take.
Recent research and market notes from our desk
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