Sygnum

Sygnum is a regulated digital bank founded in 2017 with a banking licence in Switzerland and a DPI (Digital Payment Token) licence in Singapore — two of the most rigorous and respected jurisdictions for digital asset regulation. This positioning makes it unique in the crypto landscape: it is not an exchange, not a generic custodian, but a real bank that treats cryptocurrencies as first-class assets within a full regulatory framework. Sygnum offers custody, trading, staking, lending, and asset management services on Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other reference cryptocurrencies, with access to structured products on digital assets available to institutional investors and private banking clients. The bank has also developed real asset tokenisation capabilities — art, real estate, private equity — issuing regulated blockchain tokens representing ownership stakes in traditionally illiquid assets. The Sygnum case is emblematic of the crypto market's evolution toward regulation: founded before the 2021 speculative boom, it chose to build on solid regulatory foundations rather than grow rapidly in grey areas. The result is a loyal institutional client base — family offices, hedge funds, private banks — that values compliance and transparency in a sector where scandals at unregulated exchanges caused enormous damage to investors.