IBM has officially announced the launch of IBM Digital Asset Haven, which happens to be a comprehensive platform, geared towards serving the needs of financial institutions, governments, and corporations.
Empowering these organizations to securely manage and scale their digital asset operations, the technology presents a single unified proposition for users to manage their digital asset lifecycle, right from custody and transactions to settlement. More on the same would reveal how IBM Digital Asset Haven arrivss bearing an ability to integrate the full-stack infrastructure and security of IBM with digital asset custody and management capabilities.
Not just that, the given technology also empowers these institutions to access clients with native support for key residency controls, programmable multi-party approvals, and policy-driven governance frameworks.
Another detail worth a mention here relates to how the solution in question was developed in close collaboration with Dfns, a leading digital wallet infrastructure provider best-know for creating 15 million wallets for over 250 clients.
“For digital assets to be integrated into core banking and capital markets systems, the underlying infrastructure must meet the same standards as traditional financial rails,” said Clarisse Hagège, CEO of Dfns. “Together with IBM, we’ve built a platform that goes beyond custody to orchestrate the full digital asset ecosystem, paving the way for digital assets to move from pilot programs to production at a global scale.”
Talk about the whole technology on a slightly deeper level, we begin from a facility dedicated towards transaction lifecycle management, a facility which effectively supports the blockchain transaction process, including automation, routing, monitoring and settlement. It also does so across more than 40 connected public and private blockchains.
Next up, IBM’s Digital Asset Haven promises to help you in managing governance and entitlement via a unified framework for wallet access, policy enforcement, and transaction approvals. Markedly enough, the deployed mechanism is supported by multi-party authorization workflows that, on their part, are configurable for a broad range of operational scenarios.
Then, there is the availability of integrated third-party solutions, capable of accelerating deployment with pre-integrated services for identity verification (KYC), financial crime prevention (AML), yield generation, and more. As a result, clients can seamlessly implement greater amount of integrations via developer-friendly REST APIs, SDKs, and tools.
Moving on, IBM’s latest brainchild also promises a more holistic brand of security. The stated security is understood to be available right within the company’s infrastructure for secured digital asset operations, including support for Multi-Party Computation (MPC) and Hardware Security Module (HSM)-based signing, using the IBM Crypto Express 8S HSMs embedded in IBM Z and LinuxONE.
In case that wasn’t enough, IBM Digital Asset Haven also integrates IBM Offline Signing Orchestrator (IBM OSO) for secured cold storage operations that are typically required by regulatory bodies. In fact, once you package this mechanism with quantum-safe cryptography guidance, the outcome should conceive enough flexibility to generate, rotate, and store cryptographic keys, thus supporting their compliance requirements with jurisdictional mandates.
Alongside that, it also contributes towards the preparation of digital asset security against emerging, potential quantum threats.
As for availability, IBM Digital Asset Haven is expected to be available via SaaS in Q4 2025 and/or IBM Z in Q4 2025. It is also being prepared for on–premises during Q2 2026
“With IBM Digital Asset Haven, our clients have the opportunity to enter and expand into the digital asset space backed by IBM’s level of security and reliability,” said Tom McPherson, General Manager, IBM Z and LinuxONE. “This new, unified platform delivers the resilience and data governance they have been asking for, empowering governments and enterprises to build the next generation of financial services.”
