
Digital Asset Essentials for Depositary Services 2026 , Practical depositary oversight for crypto custody, KYT, wallet monitoring, and MiCA.
Requirements
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Basic understanding of funds/asset servicing operations (administration, custody, oversight, or compliance)
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No coding or blockchain engineering knowledge required
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Helpful (but not required): familiarity with depositary duties and third-party oversight
Course Description
Depositary teams are increasingly being asked to oversee funds and structures that touch digital assets—whether that’s direct crypto exposure, tokenised instruments, stablecoins, or service providers that operate on-chain. The challenge is that the “plumbing” looks unfamiliar: wallets instead of accounts, block explorers instead of bank statements, and custody/monitoring controls that don’t map neatly to traditional operating models.
This course is a practical, depositary-focused introduction to how digital assets work in the real world—specifically through the lens of oversight, risk, evidence, and controls.
You’ll learn:
- What blockchain is (in plain English) and what it does and doesn’t prove
- How to use blockchain explorers to verify balances, transaction history, confirmations, and counterparty activity
- Where the depositary typically sits in a digital-asset operating model (and what “good” looks like)
- The main storage and custody approaches (hot/cold, multi-sig, MPC, HSM) and how to assess service providers
- How AML / KYT works for on-chain activity, including common risk indicators and practical monitoring approaches
- A working overview of MiCA—what it covers, how it classifies crypto-assets, and how that affects operating models
- Other regulations and standards you’ll encounter (e.g., Travel Rule concepts, sanctions expectations, governance and recordkeeping)
This is not a trading course and not a technical build course. It’s designed to help depositary, oversight, and control functions ask better questions, interpret on-chain evidence, and engage confidently with internal stakeholders, custodians, administrators, and vendors.
Format: concise modules, practical walkthroughs, and checklists you can reuse in due diligence and ongoing monitoring.
Who this course is for:
- Depositary services professionals (oversight, safekeeping, cash monitoring, controls)
- Operational risk, compliance, and financial crime teams supporting digital-asset exposures
- Fund administrators, transfer agency, and middle office staff interfacing with crypto custodians or on-chain workflows
- Internal audit and governance teams reviewing digital-asset service providers and control frameworks
- Product/implementation managers delivering tokenisation or digital-asset operating models
