The IBM Digital Asset Haven will target clients that need to manage digital assets across a variety of blockchains.
Big Blue has launched IBM Digital Asset Haven, a digital asset platform for financial institutions, governments, and corporations that need to “manage and scale their digital asset operations,” officials say.
The new platform, developed in collaboration with Dfns, a digital wallet infrastructure provider that says its offering can help integrate “the full-stack infrastructure and security of IBM with Dfns digital asset custody and management capabilities,” officials say. The Dfns platform supports complex compliance, performance, and security requirements.
“IBM Digital Asset Haven empowers these institutions to participate in this new economy with the security and technical assurance for which IBM has become renowned in other mission-critical operations,” IBM officials say. “IBM Digital Asset Haven can provide clients with native support for key residency controls, programmable multi-party approvals, and policy-driven governance frameworks.”
The new platform offers:
- Transaction Lifecycle Management: The support covers “the blockchain transaction process, from automation and routing to monitoring and settlement, across more than 40 connected public and private blockchains;”
- Governance and Entitlement Management: This constitutes “a unified framework for wallet access, policy enforcement, and transaction approvals” that has the support of “multi-party authorization workflows configurable for a broad range of operational scenarios;” and
- Integrated Third-Party Solutions: This platform is designed to “accelerate deployment with pre-integrated services for identity verification (KYC), financial crime prevention via anti-money laundering (AML), yield generation: and more. Clients can implement additional integrations via developer-friendly REST APIs, SDKs, and tools.”
The IBM Digital Asset Haven platform uses IBM Offline Signing Orchestrator (IBM OSO) for cold storage operations, required by regulatory bodies in an increasing number of jurisdictions globally, officials say.
“Together with IBM, we’ve built a platform that goes beyond custody to orchestrate the full digital asset ecosystem, paving the way for digital assets to move from pilot programs to production at a global scale,” says Clarisse Hagège, CEO of Dfns, in a prepared statement.
IBM Digital Asset Haven is expected to be available via a software as a service (SaaS) mode during the last quarter of 2025 and Hybrid SaaS leveraging LinuxONE and/or IBM Z in Q4 2025, and is planned for on‑premises in Q2 2026, officials say.
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