Crypto & Digital Asset Protection for the Ultra-Wealthy
Self-custody is sovereignty. It is also a target painted in public. The wealth no bank holds is the wealth you alone must defend — and most defend it badly.
There is a freedom in holding your own keys that no private bank can offer. There is also a finality: no fraud department, no reversal, no call to the branch manager. A digital fortune can vanish in a single signed transaction — pulled by a remote hacker, a trusted insider, or a stranger standing in your hallway.
For the ultra-wealthy, the danger compounds, because your holdings are rarely as private as you believe. A leaked exchange record, a boastful interview, a wallet linked to your name — and you are no longer anonymous money. You are a marked address with a face.
Three ways a digital fortune is lost
Most holders defend only the first. A hardware wallet stops a remote thief and does nothing about the other two. Real protection treats digital, human and physical risk as one problem — because the attacker does.
The architecture we build
Key & custody design
Multisignature and hardware-isolated keys so no single device, person or location can move funds alone. Where it fits, a hybrid of self-custody and institutional custody — control without a single point of failure.
Access & insider control
Defined, audited limits on who can do what; separation of duties across advisors and staff; monitoring that flags the unusual before it becomes the irreversible.
Coercion & physical resilience
Decoy wallets, time-locks and duress protocols so that even under threat, your real holdings cannot be drained on demand. Aligned with your physical security so the digital and the personal defend each other.
Operational discipline
Secure devices for signing, encrypted communication for instructions, and verified procedures — so the boring, daily handling of assets does not quietly become the breach.
The blockchain is unforgiving by design. Your security around it must be just as deliberate.
This work lives within our Personal Cybersecurity office and connects to the broader family-office cybersecurity standard — one team for the whole surface of your wealth.
Protect the wealth no one else will
A $4,999 Private Strategy Session — we assess your custody, access and exposure and design the architecture that fits your holdings. Credited toward membership.
Request Your InvitationFrequently asked
What is crypto custody protection?
The architecture and discipline protecting your private keys, wallets and exchange access from theft, hacking, insider risk and physical coercion — designed around how you hold and move assets.
What is a $5 wrench attack?
Physical coercion — threatening you or your family to force a transfer — instead of hacking. For publicly-wealthy holders it is real, so protection must combine digital, physical and decoy measures.
Self-custody or custodian?
Depends on amount, jurisdiction and threat model. Many principals use multisig self-custody plus institutional custody. We design to your risk, not to a product.
What does it cost?
A $4,999 Private Strategy Session to begin, credited toward membership; then a retainer scaled to the size and complexity of your holdings.