BeInCrypto Institutional Research: 15 Firms Setting the Standard for Crypto Corporate Governance

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Anchorage Digital

Federally chartered crypto bank

SF / NY / Sioux Falls / Singapore / Porto

$4.2B valuation

Backed by a16z, GIC, Goldman Sachs, KKR, Visa, Tether

OCC national trust bank charter since Jan 2021

Longest-tenured federally chartered crypto bank

Subject to ongoing OCC examination

Resolved 2022 OCC AML consent order after remediation

BitGo

Public and federally chartered custody

Sioux Falls / Palo Alto

$104B+ AUC

$2.08B valuation at IPO

NYSE: BTGO since Jan 22, 2026

OCC final national trust bank charter

NYSE IPO raised $212.8M in Jan 2026

First publicly traded federally chartered digital asset infrastructure company

Block

Long-tenured public fintech

San Francisco, USA

Cash App and Square ecosystem

57M Cash App monthly actives in Q4 2025

NYSE: XYZ, formerly SQ

Public since Nov 2015

Decade-plus public-company governance record

Spiral continues Bitcoin core development support

BNY

Global bank with crypto custody surface

New York, USA

$55.8T total AUC/A

Founded in 1784 as the oldest US bank

NYSE: BK

OCC-regulated bank

Co-custodian on Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust

Live BTC and ETH custody operational since 2022

Bullish

Public institutional exchange

George Town, Cayman Islands

Institutional spot and derivatives trading platform

Public-market exchange governance

NYSE: BLSH

Listed via SPAC merger in Aug 2025

NYSE listing brought public-market governance to the venue

Led by Tom Farley, former NYSE President

Circle Internet Group

Public stablecoin issuer

Boston / NYC, USA

USDC $73B market cap

Monthly Deloitte reserve attestations

NYSE: CRCL since Jun 2025

OCC conditional national trust bank charter

First publicly traded stablecoin issuer

OCC conditional charter granted Dec 12, 2025

Coinbase

Public crypto-native company

Wilmington / SF, USA

S&P 500 inclusion in 2024

Full SOX compliance; Deloitte auditor

NASDAQ: COIN since Apr 2021

First US-listed crypto-native firm

SEC enforcement action dismissed in Feb 2025

Board includes Marc Andreessen, Fred Wilson, Tobias Lütke, and Gokul Rajaram

Fidelity Digital Assets, NA

Asset-manager operated federal trust

Boston, USA

Backed by Fidelity’s $15T+ AUA platform

Custody for FBTC and FETH ETFs

OCC conditional national trust bank charter

Approved Dec 12, 2025

FDAS LLC converting from NY state trust to federal trust bank

Inherits Fidelity’s institutional governance framework

Galaxy Digital

Public multi-product crypto investment firm

New York / Delaware

Trading, asset management, investment banking, and mining

US public-market governance framework

NASDAQ: GLXY since May 16, 2025

Re-domiciled from Toronto to Delaware

Completed re-domiciliation and Nasdaq uplisting in May 2025

Moved into full US-listed SOX governance regime

Kraken (Payward)

Multi-charter crypto bank and IPO-track firm

San Francisco, USA

Krak app reached 450K+ downloads across 130 countries

Profitable with positive EBITDA per Co-CEO disclosure

Wyoming SPDI charter

OCC trust application filed May 8, 2026

Filed OCC national trust charter application

Deutsche Börse made $200M secondary share purchase in Apr 2026

Robinhood Markets

Public retail broker with crypto stack

Menlo Park, USA

26M+ funded customers in Q1 2026

Expanded crypto licence base via Bitstamp

NASDAQ: HOOD since Jul 2021

MiCAR-CASP operational

Closed Bitstamp acquisition in Jun 2025

WonderFi acquisition expanded Canadian footprint in Q1 2026

Securitize

SEC-regulated tokenization infrastructure

Miami, USA

$4B+ AUM in tokenized assets

Partners include BlackRock, Apollo, Hamilton Lane, KKR, VanEck, BNY

SPAC merger to NASDAQ at $1.25B valuation

SEC-registered broker-dealer, ATS, transfer agent, ERA

SPAC merger announced via Cantor Equity Partners

NYSE selected Securitize for tokenized securities platform

Standard Chartered

TradFi global bank with digital asset stack

London, UK

$900B assets

170+ year emerging-markets bank

LSE: STAN and HKEX: 2888

Multi-jurisdiction CIB governance

Naveen Mallela joined as payments head in May 2026

Zodia Custody remains majority-owned via SC Ventures

Strategy (MicroStrategy)

Public Bitcoin treasury corporation

Tysons Corner, Virginia

World’s largest corporate BTC holder

Public company since 1998

NASDAQ: MSTR

Rebranded from MicroStrategy in Feb 2025

Maintains long-running public-company disclosure regime

Bitcoin treasury model governed through Nasdaq filings

Sygnum

Swiss-licensed crypto bank

Zurich, Switzerland

2,000+ institutional clients across 70+ countries

$5B+ AUM; $1B+ post-money valuation

FINMA banking licence since 2019

MAS CMS, Liechtenstein bank licence, ADGM

Reached unicorn status in Jan 2025

Sygnum Connect and Sygnum Protect are live products

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