Coinkite now forces dice rolls and key-press entropy on new Coldcard seeds. The lasting lesson from the July–August 2026 thefts is not to abandon self-custody — it is to stop generating every key on one vendor.
Onramp, founded by ex-Google executive Michael Tanguna, introduces a multisignature custody solution partnering with BitGo, CoinCover, and Tetra Trust to secure billions in Bitcoin assets amid growing institutional demand.
Bitcoin-Safe, backed by a one-year OpenSats grant awarded in March 2025, enforces hardware wallet use for mainnet operations to minimize risks, distinguishing it from software-reliant alternatives like Electrum and Sparrow.
Debifi founder and CEO Max Kei has harnessed his years of experience contributing to Hodl Hodl, a noncustodial peer-to-peer (P2P) bitcoin exchange and bitcoin-backed lending platform, to create Debifi, a lending platform like Hodl Hodl’s but built for institutional clients.
Becca Rubenfeld and the AnchorWatch team recently unveiled a first-of-its-kind bitcoin custody plus insurance solution, which aims to not only keep their customers’ bitcoin safe, but the customers themselves, as well.
Sriram Bhargav Karnati, a former consumer product developer at Google and Robinhood, is now building Theya, the most usable Bitcoin multisig vault on the market today.
Deciding to take bitcoin into self-custody is the first step, but holders must assess how they want to protect their savings with either singlesig, DIY multisig or collaborative custody.