Institutional Use Cases

Cold storage configurations for protocol treasuries, crypto hedge funds, family offices and corporate treasuries, with the controls each structure needs.

DAOs & Protocols — Protocol Treasuries

Keep a protocol treasury offline, with no single person able to move funds. Citadel adds M-of-N approval, enforced by the software. M-of-N approval with Citadel. Native on-chain multisig on BTC Edition. Clear roles for core contributors. Licence audit log in the client portal. Typical AUM: $10M - $1B+. Team Size: 5-50 signers. Common Chains: ETH, SOL, AVAX.

Hedge Funds & Asset Managers — Crypto Hedge Funds

Keep keys offline and operations documented. Fortress is designed to support the controls a regulated fund structure expects, without handing keys to a custodian. Documented signing procedure. Separate wallets per mandate or strategy. Audit-friendly licence and activation records. Role-based access to the client portal. Typical AUM: $50M - $5B+. Team size: 10-100+. Focus: Controls, documentation.

Family Offices & HNWI — Family Offices

Preserve long-term holdings with keys the family controls. A dedicated account manager from Premium, and white-glove onboarding on Platinum. Inheritance planning with the Lazarus Protocol. Backup and recovery with SeedVault. Privacy-first: no hosted keys. Dedicated account manager on Premium and Platinum. Typical Holdings: $5M - $500M+. Family Members: 2-20. Priority: Security, Privacy.

Corporate & Enterprise — Corporate Treasuries

For companies holding digital assets on the balance sheet: offline keys, approval by more than one officer, and records for your auditors. Multi-officer approval workflows. Signing procedures for finance teams. Records for internal and external audit. White-glove onboarding on Platinum. Typical holdings: $100M - $10B+. Signers: 3-50. Focus: Approval, audit.