{"id":5223,"date":"2025-10-27T17:16:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T17:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/27\/ibm-launches-digital-asset-haven-to-help-banks-and-governments-enter-into-crypto\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T17:16:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T17:16:20","slug":"ibm-launches-digital-asset-haven-to-help-banks-and-governments-enter-into-crypto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/27\/ibm-launches-digital-asset-haven-to-help-banks-and-governments-enter-into-crypto\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM Launches \u201cDigital Asset Haven\u201d to Help Banks and Governments Enter into Crypto\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/\">Bitcoin Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/business\/ibm-launches-digital-asset-haven\">IBM Launches \u201cDigital Asset Haven\u201d to Help Banks and Governments Enter into Crypto\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>IBM announced a platform designed to help financial institutions, governments, and large corporations securely manage their crypto and blockchain-based assets, like <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/culture\/ibm-exec-forecasts-a-million-dollar-bitcoin-when-a-sat-will-equal-a-cent\">bitcoin<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The platform, developed in collaboration with crypto wallet provider Dfns, combines IBM\u2019s infrastructure and security expertise with Dfns\u2019 institutional-grade custody and wallet technology.<\/p>\n<p>At its core, Digital Asset Haven <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.ibm.com\/ibm-digital-asset-haven\" target=\"_blank\">wants to simplify<\/a> what has long been a tricky and complex landscape for institutions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Many banks and governments have been cautious about crypto because it involves multiple blockchains, regulatory hurdles, and security risks. <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/tags\/ibm\">IBM\u2019s<\/a> platform wants to change this and consolidate these moving parts, offering a single solution.<\/p>\n<p>The partnership with Dfns is central to the platform. Dfns has built more than 15 million wallets for over 250 clients, focusing on secure and compliant operations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By combining this with IBM\u2019s high-assurance infrastructure, Digital Asset Haven is meant to provide institutions with the same reliability and governance standards that traditional financial systems offer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That includes multi-party approvals, policy-driven governance, and support for cold storage, where crypto keys are kept offline for maximum security.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">IBM\u2019s support for 40 blockchains<\/h2>\n<p>The platform also supports more than 40 blockchains, both public and private, giving institutions flexibility to engage with a wide range of digital assets, from traditional cryptocurrencies to <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/bigread\/genius-act-bitcoin-global-stablecoin\">emerging stablecoins<\/a> and tokenized assets.<\/p>\n<p>It integrates third-party services for identity verification, anti-money laundering checks, and yield generation, and offers developer-friendly APIs to enable further customization and innovation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is more than custody,\u201d said Clarisse Hag\u00e8ge, CEO of Dfns. \u201cWe\u2019ve built a platform that orchestrates the full digital asset ecosystem, moving digital assets from pilot programs to production at a global scale.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tom McPherson, General Manager of IBM Z and LinuxONE, emphasized that the platform brings IBM\u2019s signature resilience and data governance to the emerging digital asset space, helping institutions explore new products without compromising on security or compliance.<\/p>\n<p>The launch comes at a time when regulated digital assets are gaining momentum.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Stablecoins, for example, have become <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/politics\/bitcoin-vs-stablecoins-bitcoin-is-an-unreplicable-lifeline-in-authoritarian-regimes\">increasingly used in payments<\/a> following the U.S. adoption of legislation earlier this year, and major banks are exploring blockchain-based money transfers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This post <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/business\/ibm-launches-digital-asset-haven\">IBM Launches \u201cDigital Asset Haven\u201d to Help Banks and Governments Enter into Crypto\u00a0<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/\">Bitcoin Magazine<\/a> and is written by <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/authors\/micahzimmerman\">Micah Zimmerman<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin Magazine IBM Launches \u201cDigital Asset Haven\u201d to Help Banks and Governments Enter into Crypto\u00a0 IBM announced a platform designed to help financial institutions, governments, and large corporations securely manage their crypto and blockchain-based assets, like bitcoin.\u00a0 The platform, developed in collaboration with crypto wallet provider Dfns, combines IBM\u2019s infrastructure and security expertise with Dfns\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5223","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}