Fireblocks

VelaFi built the regulated corridors. Fireblocks secures what moves through them. LATAM, Asia, and the U.S. now live on institutional custody infrastructure.

AUSD is already live on the Fireblocks Agentic Payment Suite. A purpose-built dollar-denominated asset for governed, high-velocity movement across chains, now connected to agent-initiated payment flows.

Over a billion people already use AI assistants to research, plan, and decide. The next phase is underway. People are connecting wallets so agents can transact on their behalf. Booking travel, replenishing supplies, paying for usage-metered APIs. Stablecoins are the right rails for this. They settle in seconds, cost a fraction of traditional rails, and are programmable in ways agents can natively reason about. Protocols like x402 and MPP are the connective tissue. But so far, the tooling has been single-chain facilitators. Hobbyist wallets. No compliance layer, no policy controls, no audit trail. Today we launched the Fireblocks Agentic Payments Suite. Two capabilities: an Agentic Payments Gateway that lets any PSP white-label agent payment acceptance across their merchant base, and Agentic Wallets that let fintechs issue wallets users can safely delegate to AI agents with scoped, revocable spending authority bounded by policy. The constraint we built against: governance at agent speed. Policy enforcement at transaction speed, not review speed. Audit trails that satisfy institutional requirements. The same controls our customers already use to move trillions, applied to every agent-initiated transaction before anything signs. Chain, asset, and protocol agnostic. We also joined the x402 Foundation. Standards built in isolation tend to leave compliance and institutional security as someone else's problem. We're contributing payment integrity, KYT integration patterns, and multi-chain support directly into the protocol. https://lnkd.in/er66AkSA

Humans used to initiate every payment. These days? Think again, AI agents are here. And they've exposed a governance gap. Agents can find a service, negotiate a price, and trigger payment. But who authorized the spend? What are the limits? Is the counterparty clean? Can you explain it to a regulator? We’re closing that gap with the Fireblocks Agentic Payments Suite. The Agentic Payments Gateway is the acceptance layer for PSPs. White-label, neutral, ready to deploy. Their merchants can start taking agent-initiated stablecoin payments today across any stablecoin, any chain, any emerging agentic standard. Inbound payments route into Fireblocks vaults with compliance, verification, and audit trails built in. Tazapay is live on it across 70+ markets. Agentic Wallets handle the sending side. Fintechs can let their users delegate stablecoin spending to AI agents under scoped permissions, defined budgets, and revocable access. Agents transact, sign, and pay any merchant accepting x402 or MPP. Every action enforced by the Fireblocks Policy Engine. Agora's AUSD is the first stablecoin live across the suite, flowing through both gateway and wallets from day one. We also joined the x402 Foundation and delivered the security extension that blocks man-in-the-middle rerouting and adds spend governance to the protocol itself. Buckle up. It's going to be a wild (but secure) ride. Link in the comments.

The most insightful conversations at last week’s The Asian Banker Summit weren’t on the panel, nor at the awards dinner. The panels I attended were largely pro. Determined to proceed, with appropriate caution, to reap the benefits of tokenised money without losing the controls of today. That’s the honest picture of where banking sits. Off-stage was different, with much more of a focus on execution, and candour. Three themes came up again and again: 1. Integration: as The Financial Grid (link in comments) showed, the strategic call has been made. What banks need now is help wiring digital asset infrastructure into the existing stack. Sidecar architecture that sits alongside the core without forcing a re-platform. Sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, core ledger reconciliation, treasury and liquidity systems all need to plug in cleanly. The capability exists. The integration work is what the teams fear. 2. Internal readiness: Banks know where they want to get to, but the operating model isn’t there yet. Operational risk frameworks need to be extended to cover 24/7 settlement and smart contract exposure. Compliance requirements around travel rule, wallet screening and jurisdictional licensing need to be mapped to the target use cases. Booking models need to be agreed. 3. Sequencing and commercial proof: Where do banks who’ve done this actually start? No P&L leader wants a science experiment. They want a use case that mitigates the strategic risk that money goes on chain and pays back. The pattern that we’ve seen work with clients is narrow first, with the operating model and controls proven at small scale on a technology stack that can scale to multiple businesses and production volumes. This is what the next 18 months of transaction banking actually looks like. Not a tech race. An execution race. The banks that are leading are the ones who will work through the sidecar integration, the operational risk frameworks, the compliance build, the booking models and the first commercial use case in the right order. This is the work Fireblocks does with banks every day. We are a partner helping on architecture, the controls and the commercial sequencing that turn a strategic call into a POC into a revenue generating, controlled, business. We also help with software that can be a bank’s core banking system for digital assets. The institutions that win this will treat it as a commercial programme. Not a technology project. That was the bit that didn’t make the panel.

【ウェビナー開催のご案内｜6月4日（木）13:00〜】 金融機関のためのデジタルアセット・セキュリティ戦略 ― Fireblocks × タレスHSM が実現するエンタープライズ鍵管理と運用モデル デジタルアセット事業を安全・規制対応で立ち上げるためには、従来の金融システムと同等以上のセキュリティ基盤が求められます。 今回、グローバルHSMリーダーであるタレスとFireblocksが共同でウェビナーを開催。日本の金融機関が直面する「秘密鍵管理」「トランザクション統制」「規制対応」の課題に対し、Fireblocks KeyLink Flow × Thales Luna HSM の統合アーキテクチャを詳解します。 日時：2026年6月4日（木）13:00〜14:00（JST） プラットフォーム：BrightTALK（オンライン・無料） 👉 参加登録はこちら：https://lnkd.in/eReAb-ZH #デジタルアセット #暗号資産 #HSM #鍵管理 #デジタル証券 #セキュリティ #金融機関

The Fireblocks 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝘆𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 now has a regulated GCC settlement node. ARP Digital integrates as the network's corridor partner, giving fintechs and PSPs licensed access to live rails across Bahraini dinar, and other GCC currencies. Read more in the comments.

Leading the world, from Down Under! As a member of the Independent Advisory Group, I've had a front row seat to Project Acacia, pushing the global frontier of digital asset innovation through its exploration of wholesale #CBDC in financial markets. Joining meetings in the middle of the night, I've observed the natural tension between Australia's incumbents and challengers, and between innovation and risk management. But I've admired the Reserve Bank of Australia's openness to challenge and the Digital Finance CRC's willingness to ask "what if...?" And I've been particularly impressed by the innovation-led approach, which ultimately led to the issuance of pilot CBDC on third-party blockchains. It has allowed us, collectively, to understand the thorny issues and the practical challenges, while demonstrating the benefits for the financial system. I'm thrilled about the Fireblocks use case, which showed how a wholesale CBDC could serve as: 1. A settlement asset for a tokenised bond, eliminating counterparty credit #risk. 2. An interchange asset between a stablecoin and a tokenised deposit, ensuring the #singleness of money. 3. A reserve asset for a stablecoin to enhance its #resilience and utility. And I'm delighted that Fireblocks provided the enterprise key management infrastructure for the RBA to issue its pilot CBDC.

Fireblocks is proud to have been part of Project Acacia, the Reserve Bank of Australia and Digital Finance CRC's groundbreaking research initiative into digital money and wholesale tokenised asset markets. 🇦🇺 We contributed as both a support partner and a use case lead, helping demonstrate atomic settlement of tokenised corporate bonds using wCBDC for stablecoin interchange, and providing the enterprise key management infrastructure underpinning the RBA’s own pilot wCBDC issuance. Project Acacia showed that tokenisation can meaningfully improve the efficiency, resilience, and functionality of Australia’s wholesale markets. We’re excited to keep building on this momentum alongside the RBA, DFCRC, and the broader industry.

𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗠𝗶𝗖𝗔-𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘆 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲. Coinmate.io, one of Europe's leading retail crypto platforms, was scaling transaction volumes on manual treasury workflows. MiCA raised the bar on custody, ICT risk, and client protection. Legacy processes couldn't meet it. With Fireblocks custody, automation, and the COR Compliance Package, Coinmate cut manual operational effort by 30-50% and built an auditable foundation for European growth. "Automation has materially reduced manual effort across treasury and transaction workflows, freeing up team capacity for higher-value tasks while the built-in security features and audit trail have strengthened our compliance readiness under MiCA." — Martina Petrová, Custody Manager, Coinmate Coinmate is scaling across Central Europe, backed by Fireblocks. Full case study link in the comments.