Aegis Custody is a Licensed Custodian in Hong Kong
Serra Angel Wei, Founder & CEO
Digital assets have been an area of interest to many institutional investors and corporations following the token revolution. As a cryptocurrency investor, I witnessed how the lack of digital asset custody solutions became a big hurdle for funds to invest in this asset class.
Regulated institutional investors who wish to invest in digital assets are obligated to deposit their assets with licensed custodians.
We cannot ignore the growth of cryptocurrency and blockchain solutions in the world economy.
After seeing predictions that tokenized assets will be worth 24 trillion dollars by 2027, I have decided to build a team and launch a digital asset custody company that is tailored to the institutional investor’s needs. Introducing Aegis Custody, headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Today, after a year of developing our state-of-the-art product, I am excited to share that Aegis Custody was granted its license as a Trust or Company Service Provider (TCSP) for its digital asset custody business by the Hong Kong Companies Registry of Trust and Company Services Providers.
This is a major milestone for Aegis Custody which will allow the company to offer our advanced products and services to institutional investors globally. We already started using our Hong Kong license, with guarding the assets of Fosun International, while we continue our license application as a Qualified Custodian in the United States.
We aim to make digital assets easy for institutions. Our solution allows for a highly secure, highly customizable digital asset custody workflow, all under regulatory oversight. This support custody of Bitcoin, Ethereum, ERC-20 tokens and other digital asset applications.
We accomplished this by incorporating our proprietary hardware — the “Aegis Pen” — a distributed HSM device, together with a transaction management enterprise system. We believe that controlling the end-to-end product from the hardware code to the user interface, will make sure that our clients’ assets are never exposed to hacks and internal theft.
I am grateful to my team at Aegis Custody and our strategic partners and look forward to launching our product in Asia.
— Serra Angel Wei, CEO
Serra Angel Wei is a cryptocurrency finance executive, investor and entrepreneur with a blend of experience in both legacy and blockchain-based finance and cryptocurrencies. Ms Wei has worked with Goldman Sachs, Passport Capital on building investment strategies, structuring M&A deals, cryptocurrency trading and custody solutions. Serra holds an MBA degree from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Aegis Custody Company Limited is a wholly-owned subsidiary of AegisCo Holdings, a BVI company that also offers customizable self-custody solutions through its subsidiary Aegis Custody (Taiwan) and marketing and business development through AegisCo Capital Management (San Francisco, CA).
