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MiCA, DORA, and the Real Operational Expectations for CASPs

MiCA and DORA now apply to all European CASPs, bringing long-sought legitimacy but also strict expectations. Operational resilience is no longer optional: firms must ensure continuous asset availability and recover quickly from ICT incidents, outages, and failures.

The Limits of Crypto Insurance: Breaking Down Barriers to Coverage

The crypto market is valued at $3.97 trillion as of Q3 2025, yet with banks, fintech companies, and even governments experimenting with and adopting stablecoins, tokenized assets, digital treasuries, and more, industry looks poised for exponential growth in the near future.

Asset Recovery vs Key Recovery: Why the Distinction Matters

Crypto’s recovery model is evolving. Instead of rebuilding lost private keys, forward-thinking teams are planning for asset recovery, a faster, safer, and more resilient approach. Don’t recover keys. Recover assets.

Why Doesn’t Circuit Need My Private Keys?

Most recovery plans in crypto focus on key recovery, but that’s outdated. What truly matters is asset recovery: the ability to move funds securely, even if key infrastructure fails. It’s faster, safer, and more resilient. Rethink your fallback. Don’t recover the key. Recover the assets.

Circuit x Palisade: Leading the Future of Digital Asset Recovery with Keyless Innovation

Discover how Circuit’s keyless recovery solution is revolutionizing digital asset custody with Palisade.

Systemic Risk in Web3: Why Circuit is Building Resilience into Blockchain’s Future

Tom G, Circuit's Head of Growth, breaks down the key challenges threatening the future of web3.

Demystifying Digital Asset Custody

Breaking down the complexity of how rounding errors were used to steal $128m across 8 chains

Institutional Onboarding Guide

Covers the institutional digital asset ecosystem, the digital asset trade lifecycle and best practices in setting up technology stacks.

Built by experts who’ve made digital assets safer, and now, recoverable.

We believe asset recoverability is table stakes for the next era of digital assets.