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Crypto Custody Providers: Who Is Actually Licensed (2026)

A guide to crypto custody providers and digital asset custody: what regulators count as custody, which entities hold real licences, and when you need one.

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Security & permissions

Key custody, recovery flows, TEEs, session key scoping, and the permission checks that decide what a wallet can sign, plus audits, incident handling, and the compliance obligations that come with holding user funds.

  1. Agent wallet identity, permissions, and compliance

    Three questions decide whether an agent can be trusted with money: who it acts as, what it may do, and what you can prove afterwards.

  2. How to Build Wallet Permissions with Session Keys

    Build wallet permissions using session keys on smart accounts. Learn to grant agents time-limited, revocable spending power without transferring custody.

  3. Wallet policy engines: how to scope what a wallet can do

    A wallet policy engine decides what a wallet can do before it signs: spending caps, contract allowlists, session keys, and what auditors ask for.

  4. Technical Dive: Key Permissions for Accounts

    A guide to onchain and offchain permission systems: granular access control with spending limits, contract whitelisting, and time-based restrictions.

  5. Crypto Onboarding: Passwordless Wallets in Practice

    Why seed phrases cost you signups, and how to ship a passwordless wallet that gets users to their first transaction in under a minute.

  6. Passkeys and Account Abstraction

    Passkeys are becoming an ever increasing option for users to sign transaction with their hardware devices. Let's explore how!

  7. Technical Dive: Social Recoverable Accounts

    In this article, we will explore the concept of Recoverable Account and how it can be used using Openfort’s APIs.

  8. AA and MPC: A Practical Approach to Security

    Explore the real-world benefits of account abstraction and multiparty computation (MPC) in delivering secure and scalable crypto applications