Fireblocks, the enterprise platform securing more than $5 trillion in digital asset transfers annually, announced an expanded collaboration with Thales, a global leader in cybersecurity and the trusted provider of Luna Hardware Security Modules (HSMs). The partnership delivers a hardened, institutional-grade digital asset security architecture designed to meet the governance, compliance, and operational requirements of banks and financial institutions.
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The expanded collaboration integrates Fireblocks’ digital asset platform directly with Luna HSMs, allowing institutions to extend their existing, certified hardware security infrastructure into digital asset operations. This approach enables organizations to support custody, trading, tokenization, and onchain settlement without re-architecting security models or compromising regulatory alignment.
The joint architecture supports a broad range of institutional use cases across cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, security tokens, and tokenized real-world assets. With support for multiple elliptic curves, institutions gain wider cross-chain coverage and deeper liquidity access while maintaining alignment with existing security, governance, and audit processes already familiar to regulators.
Unlike opaque custody or transaction models, Fireblocks provides banks and financial institutions with full policy control and final transaction authority. Security controls are directly mapped to regulatory and audit requirements through customer-owned Luna HSMs, multi-party computation (MPC), and cross-domain integrations that regulators can clearly evaluate for operational risk. Fireblocks cannot unilaterally move assets or sign transactions, ensuring accountability and governance remain fully within the institution.
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This control is operationalized through Fireblocks KeyLink, which ensures private keys or key shares are generated, stored, and used entirely within institution-owned Luna HSMs. All cryptographic operations occur inside customer-controlled infrastructure, while Fireblocks provides policy enforcement, orchestration, and enterprise-grade governance across hot, warm, and cold operating models.
Todd Moore, Vice President of Data Security Products at Thales, said that as digital assets reshape global finance, adoption depends on a proven foundation of trust. He noted that Luna HSMs protect the cryptographic keys that underpin ownership and transaction authority, and when combined with Fireblocks, enable institutions to reduce key-exposure risk, strengthen governance, and move digital value with confidence at scale.
Adam Levine, SVP and Head of Corporate Development and Partnerships at Fireblocks, said financial institutions need digital asset infrastructure that aligns with the same governance, audit, and risk principles as traditional financial systems. He added that expanding the partnership with Thales allows institutions to deploy digital asset services using customer-owned, certified hardware they already trust—without sacrificing control, compliance, or operational integrity.
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Designed to support institutional transaction volumes at scale, Fireblocks delivers the operational resilience and continuous availability required for mission-critical financial systems. With more than 95 banks already using the platform in live production environments, Fireblocks continues to enable institutional digital asset adoption grounded in performance, regulatory alignment, and verifiable trust.
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