Komainu, a St Helier, Jersey-based regulated digital asset services provider and custodian, backed by Laser Digital, a Nomura company, received a $75M investment from Blockstream Capital Partners.
The funding transaction is funded in Bitcoin with appropriate hedging and risk management and Komainu establishing its own Bitcoin Treasury to manage the Bitcoin provided by Blockstream.
The company intends top use the funds to accelerate its international strategic growth plans optimizing efficiencies and enhance client services in collateral management and tokenization.
Led by co-CEOs Robert Johnson and Paul Frost-Smith, Komainu is a regulated digital asset custodian and service provider offering multi-asset support, bank-grade governance and multi-jurisdictional regulatory oversight, merging expertise from traditional financial services with security standards for new institutional digital asset custody, servicing and financing solutions, as well as providing an enterprise gateway for institutions to access the digital asset ecosystem.
The company has offices in London, Dubai, and Singapore. To solidify the strategic partnership between Komainu and Blockstream, Adam Back, PeterPaul Pardi and Nicolas Brand will join Komainu’s board of directors.
FinSMEs
16/01/2025