So, you’ve tested Cordial Treasury in a sandbox environment, completed due diligence, and secured a commercial license. Now it’s time to roll out the platform in your production environment. What should you expect in the first 90 days? SwissBorg is a large European cryptocurrency exchange and current user of Cordial Treasury. Here they share their experiences alongside each phase of implementation—deployment, security hardening, integrations, and maximizing your use of Cordial —so you can get up and running efficiently while ensuring long-term success.
Days 0-30: Deployment & Configuration
The first step is deploying Cordial Treasury nodes and configuring the core infrastructure. Here’s what you need to tackle first:
✔ Choose a node quorum setup: The most common configurations are 2-of-2 (both nodes must sign) or 3-of-4 (three out of four nodes must sign).
✔ Decide on self-hosting vs. hybrid deployment: Will you host all nodes yourself, or split deployment with an operating partner?
✔ Set up network security: Secure communication between nodes, for instance using WireGuard, and restrict incoming traffic.
✔ Run Treasury with supervisor to:
- Automate safe, admin-approved updates.
- Prevent migration faults or consensus issues.
- Ensure only signed updates are applied.
✔ Security hardening: Your security team may choose to:
- Run an API node to restrict exposure of the Treasury nodes holding MPC key shares.
- Configure Treasury nodes for outbound-only connections.
- Further choices available and can be easily included
✔ Kickstart integrations: Get Cordial working with your other systems!
- KYT tools for automated address screening.
- SSO providers for seamless authentication.
- Any other middle/ back office system which you want to connect into Cordial
✔ Leverage Cordial’s SaaS services (optional but powerful!):
- Connector (use our unified RPC layer for interacting with blockchains, or bring your own RPC nodes to use!).
- Oracle (chain indexing & price feeds, helping with real-time data notifications around deposits and other on-chain activity).
- Hosted UI (Most customers rely on us to host the UI, however you can also host this yourself).
“Cordial provided us with a highly flexible policy engine, allowing us to define and implement very strict security policies tailored precisely to our requirements. Its principled and straightforward design made integration simple, aligning perfectly with our unwavering commitment to the highest security standards.” - SwissBorg
By now, you’ve decided on the best configuration that works for you and integrated some other systems you use. Depending on how much time you have to allocate, this can be done in a few hours or over a few days.
Finally, once your environment is ready, you will self-serve your users to onboard to your environment, set up access and transfer policies (you are the policy admin after all) and any other day to day tasks. At this point you will spend the next few weeks getting familiar with Cordial Treasury, starting with some initial chains which you wanted to start working with out of the gate. So, deposit some coins and start to experience how easy it is to manage once you’re familiar with the setup.
Days 30-60: Expansion & Optimization
Now that the foundation is set, it’s time to scale up and maximize value!
✔ Expand asset management:
- Add more deposit addresses.
- Manage assets across 45+ supported public blockchain mainnets.
Need support for an exotic chain? Let us know—it usually takes 1-2 weeks to support!
“The Cordial team have delivered several layer 1 blockchain requests within their stated 2 week timeframe - the Astar parachain in particular was added in just 1 day! In our first 90 days we have expanded significantly beyond our initial chain set and it’s impressive how quickly the Cordial team can keep up with our operational needs for new chain support - they have proven to be a huge enabler for us in working with new or exotic blockchains.” - SwissBorg
✔ Refine policy enforcement: Optimize workflows with:
- Trying out new approval requirements.
- Creating new Role-based access controls beyond your initial permission sets.
- Creating custom transaction policies.
✔ Familiarity with development lifecycle
- Running consensus based decision to upgrade the software version
- Pulling the signed software image and locating the associated release notes
- Running a seamless deployment between staging and production environments
✔ Drive team adoption & expansion of product use:
- Users should now be confidently navigating all areas of the UI.
- Approving any environment changes faster.
- Moving beyond simple wallet use cases and exploring staking workflows
Days 60-90: Power User Mode
At this stage, you’re operating at full throttle and ready to:
✔ Use Direct MPC Signing: Ideal for:
- Custom DeFi interactions.
- Other smart contract calls not natively supported such as governance voting.
- Any other payload that requires a supported signature.
✔ Explore cross-chain expansion: Dive into Cordial’s open-source cross-chain library to add niche blockchain support on your own.
✔ Ongoing feedback & enhancements: Around Day 90, we’ll check in with you to fine-tune your deployment and ensure Cordial can support your near term plans.
- Scale security infrastructure.
- Expand supported assets.
- Automate more workflows.
“The Treasury team at SwissBorg is the primary end user of the Cordial product. We really appreciate the Cordial team’s responsiveness both in terms of how quick they are to reply but also in the time they take and openness to understanding any issues or feedback. As such, the product continues to regularly iterate and become an even more useful tool in our Treasury team toolkit.” - SwissBorg
Conclusion
Implementing Cordial Treasury is smooth, powerful, and transformative. Within 90 days, you’ll go from deployment to full-scale asset management, with seamless integrations and refined security policies. Increasing your asset support with ease and seeing tangible business benefits. New features are on the way to further empower our customers with their treasury management. Get in touch for a demo today.
