Zürich · A one-day working session
One room, one day, one question taken seriously: can a Swiss business or fiduciary hold its own crypto keys — legally, prudently, and safe to hand on when the time comes? Built for family offices, trusts, fiduciaries and corporate treasury.
The premise
Most custody events sell a product. This one follows a line of reasoning — from why you'd want keys at all, to whether you're allowed to hold them, to how it's actually run, to what happens the day something breaks. Each session earns the next.
The balance-sheet case for holding your own keys — counterparty risk in plain terms, and the honest costs alongside it.
What Swiss law and a fiduciary's duty of care actually permit — and what they demand in return.
The governance and the key ceremony that turn a decision into an operating model you can defend.
Succession, incapacity, and the day a signer is gone — the questions nobody wants to be the first to answer.
The programme
Just under half the day is on stage. The rest is deliberately yours — long breaks, a facilitated lunch, and roundtables where the real exchange happens.
Provisional · speakers & date to be confirmed
Why the whole room is here, and how the argument of the day is built.
Counterparty risk for a business that isn't crypto-native — what it concretely looks like, and the real cost of holding keys weighed against the risk of not.
Swiss law's segregation regime for crypto-based assets in insolvency — the conditions that must actually hold, and the gaps it doesn't cover.
What duty of care requires here, the process and documentation that satisfy it, and where personal liability actually sits.
Segregation, fiduciary duty and audit evidence are one problem from three angles. Bring the questions your own counsel hasn't answered.
A fast-paced round of short talks from the floor — six minutes each, back to back. Your six minutes of fame to put a project, a tool, an idea or a question in front of the whole room.
A working operating model: quorum, separation of duties, who holds what, staff turnover, and what the board resolution actually says.
Real mechanisms for when a keyholder can no longer sign — and how they meet Swiss inheritance law and trust structures instead of fighting them.
Tables of six — family office, trust & fiduciary, corporate treasury, small intermediary — one facilitator, one question each. The part of the day you actually came for.
What each table is still stuck on — the shortlist that sets next year's programme.
The room stays open past six. The table you were at is the table you keep talking to, glass in hand.
Two formats worth the trip
A fast-paced session of short talks given by the people in the room. Six minutes each, a strict clock, and any topic that fits — a project you've built, a tool worth knowing, a lesson learned, or an idea you need in front of a room of peers.
6 × 6 min · open to attendees · sign up at the event
Tables of six, split by who you are — family office, trust, treasury, intermediary — each with a facilitator and a single question. Held under the Chatham House Rule: you're free to use what you hear, but never to say who said it — so people speak plainly about what actually worked.
45 min · 6–8 tables · one facilitator each
Who we'd love in the room
The kinds of tools and people we're curating for the floor — what you'd actually hold your keys with, and the advisors who make holding them defensible. If your work fits one of these, come and talk to us.
Tools & infrastructure
Advisors & authorities
Seats are limited and curated
per person, incl. VAT · full day & apéro