Since our initial announcement in October we have continued to build the technical and operational capabilities needed for securing, trading and supporting digital assets with the exacting oversight required by institutional investors.

We are currently serving a select set of eligible clients as we continue to build our initial solutions. We’ve established a robust set of technical and operational standards at a level that institutions have come to expect from Fidelity.

Fidelity Digital Assets℠ is serving select clients and continues product development.

Our initial clients are an important part of our final testing and process refinement periods, which will eventually enable us to provide these services to a broader set of eligible institutions.

It’s been a challenging and rewarding time here, from critical decisions on product direction, to the intensive work of our development teams. Our operations, risk, and compliance teams are actively working with auditors to refine our policies and procedures, adapt existing operational processes, and to set new benchmarks for this aspect of cryptographic and blockchain-based finance.

Our conversations with a variety of institutions have served to underscore their clear need for a trusted platform provider in order to engage with digital assets in a meaningful way. We are committed to exceeding the requirements and standards of existing solutions with both our custody platform and trading venue — providing a combination of security and a central point of market access, disrupting the obfuscated nature of trading digital assets today.

This work truly fascinates and inspires each of us at Fidelity Digital Assets. We realize Bitcoin is not the first form of digital cash, but we recognize the transformative potential it has created.

Over the next several months, we will thoughtfully engage with and stage prospective clients based on their needs, jurisdiction, and other factors.

Contact us if your firm would like to be considered in the months to come.