{"id":16235,"date":"2025-03-05T10:17:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T10:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=16235"},"modified":"2025-03-05T10:17:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T10:17:31","slug":"sygnum-bank-expands-custody-to-include-leading-crypto-options-exchange-deribit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=16235","title":{"rendered":"Sygnum Bank Expands Custody to Include Leading Crypto Options Exchange Deribit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Crypto bank Sygnum has expanded its custody platform to include the world&#8217;s leading options exchange Deribit.<\/p>\n<p>Sygnum and Deribit are now leveraging crypto custodian Fireblocks&#8217; &#8220;Off Exchange&#8221; service, which allows traders to essentially &#8220;mirror&#8221; their assets held in custody on a trading platform.<\/p>\n<p>This will allow traders to hold their assets in a regulated bank while continuing to access the deep liquidity of Deribit, according to an announcement shared with CoinDesk on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Traders received an unwelcome reminder of the dangers in keeping their assets on an exchange last month <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2025\/03\/04\/bybit-says-77-of-stolen-funds-from-record-usd1-4b-hack-still-traceable\" target=\"_blank\">with the $1.4 billion hack of Bybit<\/a> by North Korean Group Lazarus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Counterparty risk awareness in crypto comes in cycles, and the recent major cyber-attack has triggered one of the largest waves of exchange derisking since FTX,&#8221; Sygnum&#8217;s chief product officer, Dominic Lohberger, said.<\/p>\n<p>Zurich-based Sygnum, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2025\/01\/14\/crypto-bank-sygnum-gets-unicorn-status-with-58-m-round\" target=\"_blank\">acquired a valuation of over $1 billion<\/a> following a $58 million funding round in January, is licensed in its native Switzerland as well as Luxembourg and Singapore. <\/p>\n<p>Deribit is among the world&#8217;s leading derivatives exchanges, with trading volume <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2025\/01\/22\/deribits-crypto-trading-volume-nearly-doubled-to-over-1-t-in-2024\" target=\"_blank\">surpassing $1 trillion in 2024<\/a>. Its options volume alone reached $743 billion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crypto bank Sygnum has expanded its custody platform to include the world&#8217;s leading options exchange Deribit. Sygnum and Deribit are now leveraging crypto custodian Fireblocks&#8217; &#8220;Off Exchange&#8221; service, which allows traders to essentially &#8220;mirror&#8221; their assets held in custody on a trading platform. This will allow traders to hold their assets in a regulated bank [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-16235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}