Here’s a deeper look into what private and public keys do and how the right provider can help protect your keys and user assets. 

Crypto Custody: Protecting Your Private Keys

Our latest webinar covered a variety of topics, including crypto regulation, crypto IRA taxes, and how advisors can best strategize crypto IRA allocations. 

Crypto IRAs: The Future of Digital Assets in Wealth Management 

Prime Trust is proud to announce that we’ve raised over $100 million in our Series B funding round. 

Prime Trust Raises Over $100 Million in Series B Funding 

Consensus-Booth

With over 15,000 attendants and dozens of panels, last week’s Consensus 2022 was a huge success. Here’s a roundup of some of our favorite moments.

Consensus 2022 Austin: Prime Trust's Highlights

Through Water.org's efforts, the goal of worldwide water access is becoming more achievable. And with your help, Water.org can leave an even greater impact.

Help End the World’s Water Crisis at Consensus

 Safety needs vary between companies, and storage solutions take different forms. However, for almost all companies, a custody solution is essential for keeping their users’ crypto safe.

What Makes a Good Custody Provider?

2022 has marked great strides for Prime Trust. Now, we’re adding yet another achievement to the list: SOC 2, Type 2 certification.

​​Prime Trust Achieves SOC 2 Type 2 Certification

Our recent webinar concerned the evolving nature of digital assets, crypto’s unique investment considerations, and the role of Prime Trust in supporting advisors.

What’s Next for Crypto: Advisor-Managed IRAs

Digital asset adoption in society is growing, with businesses and individual investors alike expressing interest in how it can help them save for the future. And as adoption grows, so too do the ways to invest in crypto, including crypto IRAs.

5 Reasons Your Company Should be Offering Crypto IRAs

Security matters to every business, but is particularly important for fintech, crypto and digital asset businesses that handle innovative financial transactions and custody of funds. 

How Does Crypto Influence the Construction of a Security Team?

A financial company must optimize backend infrastructure if it wants to remain competitive. If you really want to ensure that your products are compliant and competitive, you’ll need a backend financial infrastructure provider to help you. 

What is a backend financial infrastructure provider?

Crypto loyalty rewards are an exciting new way for users to enter the crypto sphere, generate wealth, and overall learn more about crypto.

Crypto: An Optimal Mechanism for Building Customer Engagement and Growing Your Business

Crypto Loyalty Rewards: An Optimal Mechanism for Building Customer Engagement and Growing Your Business

The crypto regulatory landscape is changing. It’s more important than ever for crypto companies to be aware of current and emerging trends in order to prepare for what comes next.

Crypto and Compliance Webinar - Preparing for the Unknown

Now that Bitcoin 2022 has come to an end, it’s time to reflect upon some of the main takeaways of this historic event so that we can start gearing up for Bitcoin 2023.

Bitcoin 2022 Miami: Prime Trust's Reflection

Bitcoin 2022 continued into its third day with several new panels, including the Institutional Infrastructure Panel. Our CEO Tom Pageler, who previously served as a panelist on the Onboarding Retail session, was invited once more to share his thoughts.

Bitcoin 2022: Institutional Infrastructure Panel 

On April 6th, Prime Trust CEO Tom Pageler participated in Bitcoin 2022’s Onboarding Retail Panel. The panel primarily focused on how to make onboarding more effective and accessible for new users.

Bitcoin 2022: Onboarding Retail Panel

The time to leverage crypto experiences is now. As surging demand propels widespread adoption of digital currencies across the globe, brands seeking to attract and engage consumers, employees and members are turning to the world of crypto loyalty.

Leveraging crypto for customer engagement & enhancing loyalty programs

Prime Trust’s API ecosystem allows fintechs and digital asset companies to launch platforms and service their customers' needs. Our APIs can be easily plugged in and customized so you can focus on growing your business.

Taking advantage of Prime Trust solutions for API security

Prime Trust is thrilled to announce that we’ve achieved Great Place to Work 2022 Certification™. This certification marks Prime Trust as one of the best companies to work for in the United States.

Prime Trust Recognized as Great Place to Work 2022

Crypto adoption and interest are on the rise, with more and more people investing in crypto every day. And as digital assets continue to surge in popularity, it’s time for RIAs to take notice. 

How Can RIAs Work with SMAs to Get Client Exposure to Crypto?

All-in-one financial infrastructure APIs can be customized to your needs and plugged in quickly so you can get on with growing your business.

Reduce vendor complexity with Prime Trust’s all-in-one financial infrastructure

The Cryptopians focuses on the infamous 2016 DAO hack on Ethereum. During this hack, over 3.6 million ether was stolen. And through her research, Shin was able to document what happened while also identifying the most likely culprit. 

Laura Shin’s The Cryptopians: A Deep Dive Into The 2016 DAO Ethereum Hack

Now that crypto has established itself as a fixture in the market, it’s time for RIAs to consider crypto’s place in investments.

Why Should Registered Investment Advisors be Looking at Crypto?

International Women’s Day (IWD) is an annual celebration of women and their achievements. The holiday also serves as a reminder of the progress we’ve made toward gender equality, as well as the steps we’ve yet to take.

Women in Crypto: Prime Trust Celebrates International Women’s Day

Whether you are trading fiat-to-crypto or crypto-to-crypto, trade settlement can be complex because the assets are usually recorded on completely separate networks.

How are crypto trades settled?

In November of 2020, the SEC made several amendments to Reg CF, Reg A+, and Reg D offerings. In order to explore these new requirements, Prime Trust recently sponsored a webinar devoted to raising capital through crowdfunding. 

Crowdfunding and the Importance of Compliance

As cryptocurrency continues gaining traction, new voices have joined the call for cryptoization.

Making Crypto Mainstream: Frictionless Integration Models

Settlement is an aspect of digital asset custody that fintech businesses wanting to service their customers’ crypto requirements need to understand.

What is scheduled settlement and why does it matter?

One of the most important aspects of crypto financial services is custodying digital assets in a way that meets your compliance obligations, eliminates risk, and empowers your customers.

Custodying digital assets

At PrimeTrust, we merge legacy financial institutions and defi by creating a safe and efficient ecosystem.

Early Adoption And Trusted Support In Fintech

Prime Trust just received our SOC 2 Type 1 report, which is a stepping stone to ultimately acquiring our SOC 2 Type 2 certification later in 2022. 

It’s the Journey, Not the Destination: Prime Trust’s Technical Compliance Path

Prime Trust enabled our customers to onboard millions of new crypto users - a total of more than 2000% growth in user accounts.

Prime Trust’s 2021 Year End Review

The top 7 most common money services business activities in crypto 

Are You a Money Services Business (MSB)?

At Money 20/20, we heard firsthand how the crypto industry is expanding -- what follows is our take on the top three crypto services being built today

Money 20/20 Recap: The Businesses That Will Define Crypto Adoption in 2022

Does your crypto business have what it takes for fast, easy, and compliant trading?

5 Step Checklist: Is Your Crypto Business Competitive?


A look at the current state of the crypto regulatory landscape and why compliance-focused infrastructure makes it faster and easier to launch and scale your business

Prime Trust’s Crypto Regulation Round-Up

Together, Prime Trust and Plaid are making crypto integration seamless for businesses of all sizes

Why Integrating the Right Crypto Rails Matters For Your Business

Five crypto learnings from the seventh Satoshi Roundtable

Learnings from Satoshi Roundtable 2021

A case study on alternative equity crowdfunding featuring a punk band who wanted to play by their own rules

Rockin’ and Rollin’ with Equity Crowdfunding

Prime Trust earns ISO/IEC 27001:2013 Certification in Information Security Management as it demonstrates its commitment to protecting partners, customers, and users information.

Why Information Security Is Nonnegotiable in Financial Infrastructure

Prime Trust’s financial infrastructure for ATS’ provides compliant custody and counterparty settlement at lower cost and quicker market launch as they create new liquidity services for private securities

The Next Generation of Alternative Trading Systems

A look at the current state of cryptocurrency taxation and how Prime Trust and Sovos make it easy

Scale Your Crypto Business with Simple Tax Reporting

Prime Trust makes it easy for wealth management professionals to advise on and offer their clients access to crypto

Bitcoin and Crypto are Part of a Modern Investment Portfolio

Bitcoin 2021 Miami conference in review - Prime Trust

Bitcoin Runs on Prime Trust

As the crypto space evolves, so too does regulation -- and companies that prioritize compliance will have an advantage

Building Blocks Podcast: A Look at Lawyer Hailey Lennon’s Crypto Regulation Playbook

Why do companies go public and how are retail Investors becoming involved in the IPO process?

Top 8 Takeaways from In Crowd Podcast, Episode 2: Public Markets, IPOs & Reg A+

Applying crypto properties to digital and physical assets creates a new economy of non-fungible tokens -- but are they security tokens?

What Are NFTs and How Are They Changing Digital Ownership?

Like gold, Bitcoin is a scarce asset -- but Bitcoin’s supply is truly finite. The S2F model provides a link to measure Bitcoin’s scarcity in comparison to gold.

What is the Stock-to-Flow Ratio and How Does It Compare Bitcoin to Gold?

Building Blocks podcast host Kevin Lehtiniitty talks to Tom Pageler about how his career led him to Prime Trust, why blockchain is the next evolution of the financial system, and how Prime Trust is supporting that change today

Why Prime Trust CEO Tom Pageler Says Blockchain Reduces Fraud

A look at how Prime Trust’s all-in-one financial infrastructure is built to support all digital assets and makes implementation easy with APIs

Financial Infrastructure Solutions Built for Simple Integration

On March 15th, the SEC confirmed capital formation increases for Regulation A+ and Regulation CF

Welcome to the New Rules of Equity Crowdfunding

Building Blocks podcast host and Prime Trust CSO Kevin Lehtinitty talks to tZERO CEO Saum Noursalehi about their alternative trading system and the future of financial infrastructure

Top 5 Takeaways: How tZERO’s ATS Brings Liquidity to Tokenized Assets

Prime Indemnity promises no chargebacks on crypto and fiat currency transactions for your business

Eliminate the Risk of Chargebacks from Digital Assets

Supporting a new way to trade digital assets with custody, settlement, and liquidity

The Tokenization of Assets and Emergence of a Token Economy

Easier, faster, and more accessible capital formation for private companies through online offerings

What is Equity Crowdfunding?

CBDCs introduce a government-backed digital currency based on blockchain technology

What Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) Mean for the Future of Finance

Prime Trust has modernized financial infrastructure and packaged it into easy-to-use APIs and widgets

Making Financial Infrastructure Easy as APIs

Why T+0 is the future of securities trading and how Prime Trust’s infrastructure makes it a reality

T+0: Instant Settlement for Digital Assets and Private Securities

The sub-custody model leverages expertise to increase assets and limit liability, providing an easy path to enable crypto assets as part of your portfolio offering

Your On-Ramp to Crypto Assets: Sub-Custody by Prime Trust

At Prime Trust, we’ve invested heavily in our compliance infrastructure to mitigate risk and ensure digital asset transactions meet rigorous regulatory standards

De-risking Crypto and Digital Assets?

With cryptocurrencies creating a new generation of wealthy donors, nonprofits have the opportunity to innovate how they fundraise by opening their minds to digital assets

Nonprofits Can Increase Access to Capital by Accepting Crypto

Providing established banks with effective, secure, and reliable access to bitcoin and other alternative digital assets 

Prime Trust is Your Access to Digital Currencies

A look at how the potential updates to Reg A+ and Reg CF would improve crowdfunding for issuers and investors.

Why the New SEC Chairman Should Accept Crowdfunding Improvements

The OCC recently clarified that stablecoins are a legal method of transaction. Here, we look at what stablecoins are, what they mean for the future of finance, and how PrimeTrust can be your stablecoin partner.

Why the OCC’s Green Light For Stablecoins Matters

We're thrilled to announce that Tom Pageler has joined Prime Trust as our new President & COO. He'll be responsible for all operations of the company, guiding us through our current hyper growth.

Prime Trust Hires New President & COO, Hyper Growth Continues

As we slide into what may or may not be one of the worst economic downturns of our generation, as a key vendor to many brokers, portals, exchanges, mobile apps, and real estate syndicators we want to update you on how the team at Prime Trust is handling

Prime Trust & Covid - Business Continuity

"Proposed amendments would provide a more rational framework, eliminate complexity and increase access to capital while preserving and enhancing important investor protections".

Crowdfunding Gets an Upgrade

As everyone in crypto knows, it’s really hard to open a bank account. We’ve seen firms like Coinbase hopscotch around the banking industry, opening accounts at Silicon Valley Bank, Barclays and other places only to have the banks compliance departments dec

Crypto Fraud vs Banks

A few updates that we'd like to share... Binance US, $1B: the team at Prime Trust is thrilled to see our customer, Binance America, top $1 billion in counterparty settlements of USD on our Prime Settlement Network.

Prime Trust Update: Binance US crosses $1B, new API's, new services

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