{"id":241658,"date":"2026-10-20T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T13:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=241658"},"modified":"2026-10-20T13:40:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T13:40:00","slug":"anchorwatch-opens-bitcoin-custody-service-with-lloyds-backed-insurance-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=241658","title":{"rendered":"AnchorWatch Opens Bitcoin Custody Service With Lloyd\u2019s-Backed Insurance Option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TL;DR:<\/strong> AnchorWatch has opened its Nevada-chartered Bitcoin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbtc.com\/glossary\/custody\/\">custody<\/a> service, pairing a choice of key-control structures with optional Lloyd\u2019s-backed insurance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbtc.com\/glossary\/bitcoin\/\">Bitcoin<\/a> custody is no longer just a question of who holds the private keys. For professional trustees, company treasuries and advisers, it also involves governance, recoverability and what happens if assets are lost through theft or coercion.<\/p>\n<p>AnchorWatch Trust Company has entered that market as a Nevada-chartered qualified custodian. The company is offering a model in which it controls the keys required for custody while clients can retain additional signing authority, alongside a second arrangement distributing key control among AnchorWatch, BitGo and CoinCorner.<\/p>\n<p>The firm says eligible customers can apply for insurance backed by Lloyd\u2019s of London syndicates. Its launch announcement described a possible limit of up to $370 million per client, although coverage depends on underwriting approval and the terms of an individual policy. This is not blanket protection automatically attached to every Bitcoin in custody.<\/p>\n<p>Pricing is also part of its pitch. AnchorWatch is positioning fixed-dollar custody charges, with a monthly ceiling of $10,000, against the percentage-based pricing common across institutional asset services. Insurance costs are separate.<\/p>\n<p>The structure is aimed at customers who want the controls of regulated custody without concentrating every signing decision in a single institution.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, the value of any such product depends on the actual key arrangements, policy exclusions, service reliability and how clearly clients understand the risks that remain uninsured.<\/p>\n<p><em>Written by the News Desk and edited by Samuel Rae.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TL;DR: AnchorWatch has opened its Nevada-chartered Bitcoin custody service, pairing a choice of key-control structures with optional Lloyd\u2019s-backed insurance. Bitcoin custody is no longer just a question of who holds the private keys. For professional trustees, company treasuries and advisers, it also involves governance, recoverability and what happens if assets are lost through theft or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":241659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=241658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/241659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}