Supporting new blockchains has historically been a very slow, resource-intensive process for institutional digital asset businesses. The industry standard for a wallet provider or custodian to add a new chain is three to six months—a timeline that severely limits revenue opportunities and creates operational bottlenecks for their clients.
This article explores how Cordial Treasury enables institutions to quickly integrate new blockchains, dramatically shortening this timeline from months to just one to two weeks, translating into tangible business benefits across different institutional types that we serve.
Why Blockchain Integration Speed Matters
Institutional crypto operations rely heavily on the ability to quickly support new digital assets. Whether that’s trading the latest hot project, or adding your own custom private chain as plumbing to the growing on-chain securities market. Slow blockchain integration timelines directly limit revenue potential, competitive advantage, and operational agility.
OTC & Market Making Desks: Quickly Capture High-Margin Trades
OTC desks often onboard clients holding significant positions in new or emerging cryptocurrencies. These transactions can be high-margin opportunities—but only if the custodian or wallet provider can promptly add support to accept delivery of the new coin. Same with market making, if you invest in a new token project and want to make a market on exchanges for them then you need a wallet that can be ready ahead of time. With Cordial Treasury, wallets are no longer the bottleneck to capitalizing on these lucrative opportunities.
Custodians: Accelerate Engineering Velocity
Custodians frequently take several months to integrate a new blockchain which consumes valuable engineering resources and limits the opportunity to say “yes” to competing commercial opportunities. Custodians who self host Cordial Treasury can massively increase the velocity of their chain support while maintaining full control as the custodial entity. This allows custodians to increase revenue by accelerating their AUC and staking capabilities, but also gain a competitive advantage in winning custody mandates from prominent new blockchain foundations or responding to customer asset support requests. Leaving the internal resources to focus on more strategically important projects rather than simply keeping up with blockchain engineering.
Venture Capital: Maximize Returns from Day One
For venture capital funds, it’s critical to securely receive tokens upon vesting and to stake immediately upon mainnet launch. Timely wallet support ensures VCs maximize block rewards and overall returns on SAFT investments. Cordial Treasury ensures wallets are ready for both asset custody and staking from the moment new blockchains launch, without cutting corners. Time to move off the scrappy browser based wallet or consumer grade hardware device in pursuit of these revenue opportunities.
Proprietary Trading Firms: Trade More Assets, Faster
Proprietary traders aim to trade the broadest possible range of assets, capitalizing on market opportunities the moment they arise. Cordial Treasury allows traders to align wallet support directly with their trading strategies, ensuring they can act quickly without operational delays caused by third-party vendors. Juggling the old “Waterfall” structure of: MPC wallet, browser based wallet, and hardware device quickly collapses to just one viable option - Cordial Treasury. Removing all of these risky operational workarounds, and better meeting the needs of your front office.
Exchanges: Accelerate New Asset Listings
New asset listings drive trading fees and user growth for exchanges. With Cordial Treasury, exchanges can significantly reduce the time needed to support new blockchains, enabling quicker go-to-market with new trading pairs and capturing volume ahead of competitors.
How Cordial Treasury Adds New Blockchains in Weeks, Not Months
Cordial Treasury has invested a lot of time into developing a modular, cross-chain abstraction layer. Instead of custom-coding each blockchain integration individually, Cordial Treasury uses pre-built blockchain "drivers" categorized into standardized blockchain types:
- UTXO-based chains (e.g., Bitcoin, Litecoin)
- EVM-compatible chains (e.g., Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain)
- SVM-based chains (e.g., Solana)
- Substrate-based chains (e.g., Polkadot, Kusama)
- Cosmos ecosystem chains (e.g., ATOM, Osmosis)
- Other chains like Aptos, Dusk, Sui, Tron , XLM, XRP
Since most new blockchains fall into these known categories, Cordial Treasury leverages reusable software components—enabling the rapid onboarding of new assets. In reality, if a chain falls into one of these “families” then we can add it in just 1 day!
For instance, Cordial engineers recently integrated three Cosmos-based chains within just two days, a speed previously unheard of in institutional custody.
Occasionally, unique blockchains arise that require custom integrations—such as Dusk, needed by NPEX, a Dutch licensed stock exchange, for issuing securities on-chain. Even in these cases, Cordial’s modular design allows for an entirely new chain to be added within the 2 week timeframe.
Cross-Chain Library: Open Source for Maximum Flexibility
While Cordial Treasury's team typically completes blockchain integrations rapidly, customers can also take matters into their own hands by using our open-source crosschain library. Institutional developers can independently add blockchain support and submit pull requests directly to GitHub, which Cordial reviews and integrates promptly. Cordial is the only institutional wallet platform offering full self-service blockchain integration. This further minimizes vendor side dependencies and allows the customer to be independent. This is one example of our product philosophy which is to remove ourselves from the equation as much as possible - empowering the customer to be as self sovereign as possible.
No More Workarounds: A Wallet That Evolves with the Market
Previously, when institutions lacked timely wallet support, they faced risky workarounds or had to forgo revenue opportunities. A notable example was "Solana summer," a period during the 2021 bull run when Solana saw rapid adoption and massive growth. Firms lacking timely wallet integration missed significant trading opportunities as they struggled to safely custody SOL assets from day one.
Similarly, rapid integrations for blockchains such as Aptos and Sui proved essential during 2024. With 2025 set to bring more high-profile blockchain launches—such as Monad, which Cordial Treasury is already live with on testnet—institutional wallets must keep pace or risk falling behind.
Supporting Private Blockchains and Tokenized Securities
Cordial Treasury also extends rapid blockchain support to private blockchains and tokenized securities. Qualified custodians, or firms operating in the various regulatory digital securities sandboxes, needing specific blockchain integrations to comply with regulatory requirements can leverage Cordial’s flexible infrastructure for secure, compliant, and timely deployment. The on-chain financing future is here and is proving a key theme in 2025 as institutions bring more real world assets (RWAs) on-chain. These novel offerings also tend to introduce new hybrid operating models where one venue serves as both trading and settlement venue. Not to forget that central securities depositories like Clearstream announced blockchain based custody solutions recently.
Conclusion: Keep Pace with Institutional Digital Asset Demands
Cordial Treasury completely eliminates historical constraints around blockchain support. Which enables institutions to expand rapidly into new assets and have their wallet provider be a business enabler for once. Whether serving OTC desks, custodians, VCs, proprietary traders, or exchanges, Cordial Treasury ensures timely blockchain integration without sacrificing security or control.
Ready to see how fast Cordial Treasury can add blockchain support for your institution? Contact us today.
