# The Vault

> The Vault is a Swiss and EU regulated institutional digital asset custody and treasury infrastructure platform, built on proprietary threshold MPC cryptography developed in-house. It serves financial institutions, asset managers, family offices, corporate treasuries and payment providers, and is available as SaaS, Hybrid and On-Premise deployments with the same security architecture at every stage.

## Digital Asset Custody Guide

- [What Is Digital Asset Custody? A Guide for Institutions](https://thevault.inc/company/newsroom/custody-guide): Pillar guide covering what digital asset custody is, how it differs from traditional custody, the three custody models (self-custody, third-party, hybrid) and the SaaS/Hybrid/On-Premise deployment options.
- [What Financial Institutions Get Wrong About Digital Asset Custody](https://thevault.inc/company/newsroom/digital-asset-custody-for-financial-institutions): Why custody is a security architecture problem, and what cryptographic proof to demand from any provider.
- [How Asset Managers Can Securely Handle Digital Assets](https://thevault.inc/company/newsroom/digital-asset-custody-for-asset-managers): How to act on a client's behalf within a mandate, using hybrid custody with split key shares, without a custody licence and without self-custody risk.
- [Family Office Custody: How to Hold Digital Assets Without Losing Control of Them](https://thevault.inc/company/newsroom/digital-asset-custody-for-family-offices): Sovereignty, governance and continuity across generations for family office digital asset holdings.
- [How Corporate Treasuries Can Hold Digital Assets](https://thevault.inc/company/newsroom/digital-asset-custody-for-corporate-treasuries): Approval quorums, limits and an immutable audit trail enforced at the level of the keys themselves.
- [High-Volume Crypto Payments Need Custody That Doesn't Slow You Down](https://thevault.inc/company/newsroom/crypto-custody-for-high-volume-payments): Keeping withdrawals fast while KYC, sanctions and Travel Rule checks run on every transaction.
- [How to Evaluate a Digital Asset Custody Provider](https://thevault.inc/company/newsroom/how-to-evaluate-digital-asset-custody-provider): Twelve questions to ask any custody provider, covering key architecture, threat model, policy enforcement, exit paths and pricing shape.
- [MPC vs Multisig: What's the Difference for Institutional Custody?](https://thevault.inc/company/newsroom/mpc-vs-multisig-institutional-custody): How on-chain multisig and cryptographic MPC compare on chain coverage, privacy, fees and governance.
- [SaaS vs On-Premise Custody: How to Choose](https://thevault.inc/company/newsroom/saas-vs-on-premise-crypto-custody): How the two deployments differ on sovereignty, cost shape and the team required, and how to choose without locking yourself in.

## Company

- [Newsroom](https://thevault.inc/company/newsroom): News, research, press and the Digital Asset Custody Guide.
- [The Vault Institute](https://thevault.inc/institute/): Education Day and Advisory engagements that produce The Vault Blueprint, an infrastructure plan the institution owns.
- [Contact](https://thevault.inc/company/contact): Talk to the team about custody, treasury and wallet infrastructure.