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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.
No policy emerged, but the SEC’s private roundtable exposed how crypto’s core principles clash with outdated financial rules-and why new regulatory frameworks are needed.
How $41M in SOL was stolen when a routine-looking transaction secretly reassigned staking account authority to attackers - leading to a full drain eight days later.
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.
The “random” generator that wasn’t random allowed a $3.5 billion Bitcoin hack to hide in plain sight for five years. This story previews crypto’s quantum future and urgent security risks.
Emerging technologies now enable comprehensive NIST Cybersecurity Framework implementation for digital asset security. This article shows how institutions can close custody, response, and recovery gaps at enterprise scale.
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.
Most recovery plans in crypto focus on key recovery, but that’s outdated.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.
The future of digital asset insurance is changing fast. This article explores how technology is redefining risk, why coverage gaps persist after major hacks, and what comes next as institutional demand accelerates.
A new regulatory era has opened for digital asset custody. This article explains how SAB 122 and OCC Letter 1183 unlock crypto custody for banks, and what institutions must do to operate securely and at scale.
$1.4 Billion Stolen From a Single Malicious Transaction. This article breaks down how the Bybit hack unfolded, how attackers exploited a subtle smart contract parameter to gain control of funds, and what the incident reveals about modern crypto security risks.
Part 3: When Things Go Wrong – The Reality of Digital Asset Claims. This article breaks down the digital asset claims process - from incident response to settlement - and explains the real economics behind coverage, premiums, and capacity across different risk types.
Part 2: A Guide to Digital Asset Insurance’s Landscape and Coverage. This article maps today’s digital asset insurance market - traditional insurers, crypto-native providers, and tech platforms - explaining what coverage exists, how risks are underwritten, and where the biggest gaps remain.
Part 1: A Guide to Digital Asset Insurance’s History and Evolution. This article traces how digital asset insurance emerged from traditional specie and cyber insurance, why coverage remains limited today, and what this history reveals about the future of institutional crypto adoption.
Discover how Circuit’s keyless recovery solution is revolutionizing digital asset custody with Palisade.
Most of today’s blockchains operate at a fraction of their theoretical capacity. By comparing blockspace to early internet bandwidth, this article explores why underutilised blockchain infrastructure may be the foundation for future trillion-dollar innovations.
Tom G, Circuit's Head of Growth, breaks down the key challenges threatening the future of web3.
Breaking down the complexity of how rounding errors were used to steal $128m across 8 chains
Covers the institutional digital asset ecosystem, the digital asset trade lifecycle and best practices in setting up technology stacks.

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