Web3 is a growing segment of the global financial system, and the infrastructure choices companies make today will define how fast and how far they can scale. Fireblocks has spent years building the operational backbone for Web3’s most demanding companies: chain foundations managing ecosystem treasuries, consumer apps onboarding mainstream users to blockchain rails, and gaming studios processing millions of in-game transactions. Across every segment, the underlying challenge is the same: how do you build securely, compliantly, and at scale without rebuilding your infrastructure every time the market evolves?
This guide is designed to give Web3 companies a clear framework for evaluating digital asset infrastructure, an honest assessment of where Fireblocks excels, and the tools to make a confident purchasing decision.
The most consequential decisions in this space aren’t made on price, they are made on the following topics when reviewing a vendor:
- Security architecture
- Developer experience
- Multi-chain breadth
- Long-term stability
Selecting digital asset infrastructure solutions is a fundamentally different decision from most software purchases. The stakes are higher. Custody choices affect whether your company or customers actually own the assets involved. Integration depth means switching costs are real. And the technology landscape shifts so fast, that a platform that looks sufficient today can become a ceiling within 18 months. This guide helps you avoid those traps.
Evaluating Digital Asset Infrastructure for Web3 Growth
Not all digital asset infrastructure serves Web3 companies equally. A platform optimized for institutional trading desks may lack the developer tooling a chain foundation needs to onboard ecosystem builders. A consumer wallet SDK may offer no path to the treasury management controls a gaming studio requires at scale. The right evaluation starts with defining what your business actually needs. A company also needs to be honest about where it is heading, not just where it is today.
Topics for Evaluating Digital Asset Infrastructure
Security Architecture
Security architecture is the foundation for everything else. Multi-Party Computation (MPC) and Hardware Security Module (HSM) custody are not interchangeable with software-based key management. For embedded wallets, TSS-MPC provides the strongest security available without sacrificing speed, plus truly independent recovery that never depends on a single provider. The questions to ask:
- Does the platform eliminate single points of failure?
- Who holds key material?
- Are signing policies enforced at the infrastructure level, or only in application code that can be circumvented?
- Is independent recovery possible for embedded wallets?
Developer Experience
Developer experience determines how fast your team can move. Assess the quality of API documentation, SDK language coverage, sandbox environments, and webhook infrastructure. It is important to not overlook the support infrastructure behind them. Platforms with poor developer experience impose hidden costs: engineering time is finite, and integration friction compounds with every new feature you ship. Fireblocks and Dynamic offer an active Slack community for debugging and day-to-day assistance, while enterprise clients receive dedicated private Slack channels with direct access to engineers. This means your team can build with confidence knowing expert support is built into the experience, not bolted on after.
Multi-Chain and Asset Breadth
Multi-chain and asset breadth matters more than most buyers anticipate at the start. The chain landscape changes continuously, and a platform locked to a handful of networks will become a bottleneck. Evaluate current network coverage, the track record for adding new chains, and whether support extends to both EVM and non-EVM environments.
Compliance Tooling and Policy Controls
Compliance tooling and policy controls are no longer optional for any Web3 company operating at scale. Programmable transaction policies, AML and OFAC screening integrations, and audit-ready reporting protect your business and your users. This level of compliance requirements is increasing across the jurisdictions that Web3 companies operate in.
Scalability and Operational Automation
Scalability and automation separate platforms built for growth from those that plateau. Consumer apps and gaming studios can generate millions of wallet addresses. Evaluate whether the platform supports automated sweep flows, batched transactions, and API-driven orchestration without requiring manual operations at scale.
Vendor Stability
The stability and longevity of a vendor is an underweighted factor in most evaluations. Digital asset infrastructure is not a commodity. It is important to assess the vendor’s financial backing, years in production, enterprise customer base, and the strength of their partner ecosystem. Platform risk is infrastructure risk.
Blockchain Foundations: What to Keep in Mind When Evaluating Digital Asset Infrastructure
Blockchain foundations operate at a different scale and complexity than most Web3 businesses. They must simultaneously manage treasury assets and enable developers to build reliably within their ecosystem. They often coordinate wallet infrastructure that functions across dozens of native applications. The evaluation criteria that matters most here is ecosystem reach. The questions to ask are:
- Does the provider foster a fast and abstracted way for new users to onboard and get started with embedded wallets?
- Can these embedded wallets operate outside of the app of origination and function across an entire chain’s ecosystem?
- Does the vendor understand ecosystem deal structures, where infrastructure and tooling are extended to native app developers across the network?
Consumer Apps: What to Keep in Mind When Evaluating Digital Asset Infrastructure
Consumer-facing Web3 applications, including social platforms, creator tools, donation platforms, and token-gated communities, face a distinct challenge. Their users are often unfamiliar with wallet management, and a clunky onboarding experience kills retention before the product has a chance to prove itself.
Look for embedded wallets that require no seed phrase exposure, onboarding flows that don’t require a separate wallet app, and multi-device synchronization so users can move between phone and desktop without friction.
It’s also worth evaluating whether the platform supports independent wallet recovery. Independent recovery is the ability for a user to recover their wallet without depending on the provider to facilitate it. Most embedded wallet providers host key shares themselves, making recovery contingent on their infrastructure and availability. Fireblocks does not host key shares, meaning users can recover independently. This is a capability most other providers in the market simply cannot offer based on how their systems are built.
For most consumer app companies the questions are:
- Can the infrastructure disappear behind the product?
- Can compliance tooling scale as user counts grow from thousands to millions without proportional increases in operational overhead?
- Can users independently recover their key shares and assets at any time?
Gaming & iGaming: What to Keep in Mind When Evaluating Digital Asset Infrastructure
Games and iGaming platforms present a volume challenge unlike any other vertical. In-game economies require many points, often across multiple chains simultaneously. Some of these points include high-throughput wallet operations, token issuance, and asset transfers.
iGaming operators must evaluate if the infrastructure can replace traditional payment service providers entirely via:
- Generating unique deposit addresses per player
- Automating sweep flows into omnibus wallets
- Managing treasury positions with the controls that regulated markets demand
The ability to support multi-chain token flexibility without rebuilding infrastructure for each new asset or network is a key differentiator that separates enterprise-grade platforms from single-chain point solutions.
The Fireblocks Advantage: Powering Digital Assets & Payments in Web3
Fireblocks provides purpose-built enterprise infrastructure for digital assets. It is not a repackaged consumer wallet or a single-chain tool. The platform combines MPC-secured custody with programmable policy controls, and a developer-first API layer with the broadest network support in the industry. Over 2,400+ companies have built on Fireblocks, collectively securing more than $6 trillion in assets annually.
The core of the Fireblocks platform is its MPC-CMP security architecture, which eliminates the single private key as a point of failure. Signing is distributed across parties. That means no single entity, including Fireblocks, can unilaterally move assets. This is the same security model used by major financial institutions, accessible to companies at any stage.
Fireblocks’ Wallets-as-a-Service enables companies to generate millions of wallets programmatically via API. For consumer apps and gaming studios, Embedded Wallets deliver seedless, user-friendly wallet experiences. There is no browser extension, no seed phrase, no friction. The recent launch of multi-device sync means users can access their wallets across any device seamlessly, closing the primary drop-off point in Web3 onboarding.
Native automation flows replace manual operational overhead with programmable sweep logic, batching, and payment routing. Fireblocks’ payments engine enables fast cross-border transfers on crypto rails. This is critical for iGaming operators managing multi-jurisdiction treasury positions and for any business replacing legacy payment infrastructure. Programmable transaction policies enforce signing requirements, spending limits, and address whitelists at the infrastructure level, not the application layer. In turn, the compliance controls can never be bypassed in code.
The Fireblocks Network connects over 2,400+ institutions, including exchanges, liquidity providers, OTC desks, and fiat on/off ramps. This enables secure, near-instant settlement without pre-funding. For chain foundations and consumer apps expanding into new markets, this network effect provides liquidity connectivity that would take years to build independently.
Blockchain Foundations
For blockchain foundations, Fireblocks acts as both the treasury management layer and the developer enablement platform. The ability to extend embedded wallets across an entire chain ecosystem drives consistency, reduces developer friction, and accelerates the pace of ecosystem growth. This also means that any app built on the network can leverage the same wallet infrastructure. Ecosystem deal structures allow foundations to extend Fireblocks tooling directly to their native app developers, compounding value across the network over time. When Tron and Aptos selected Fireblocks, they gained a pathway to make their networks accessible to developers who might not otherwise have the infrastructure to build securely at scale.
Consumer Apps
Consumer applications need wallets that feel invisible to the end user. Fireblocks’ Embedded Wallet, allows users to access their wallets across any device without ever managing seed phrases. In addition, it eliminates the primary drop-off point in Web3 onboarding. For some platforms like Lighter and Magic Eden, Fireblocks via Dynamic provides the underlying infrastructure that makes blockchain-native features feel identical to the Web2 experiences users are accustomed to. As user bases scale, programmable policies and digital asset compliance tooling ensure that transaction volumes grow without proportional increases in operational overhead or regulatory exposure.
Gaming & iGaming
Fireblocks’ current iGaming cohort has generated over 2 million virtual deposit addresses. This replaced PSP-managed custody with operator-owned infrastructure. Funds are swept via automation flows into omnibus wallets, with payouts going directly to player wallets. This model replaces the PSP layer entirely, eliminating the counterparty exposure that comes from having a third party hold your customers’ assets, and cutting the 50–150 basis point (BPS) processing fees operators pay on deposit volume.
Seven of Fireblocks’ iGaming customers have connected exchanges for fiat off-ramping, while more sophisticated operators deploy treasury strategies including staking and DeFi participation. For any gaming studio with meaningful transaction volume, the economics of owning your payments infrastructure become increasingly compelling as you scale.
Where Fireblocks Excels: Comparisons & Capabilities for Web3 Buyers
Choosing digital asset infrastructure means committing to a platform that will underpin your product for years. The comparison that matters isn’t just features on a spec sheet, but how each approach holds up under real operational conditions.
The table below evaluates Fireblocks against the three alternatives Web3 companies most commonly consider: building in-house, relying on a payment service provider, and using a single-chain wallet SDK.
| Capability | Fireblocks | Self-Custody / In-House | PSP / Payment Processor | Single-Chain Wallet SDK |
| MPC-CMP institutional custody | Full MPC-CMP | Engineering burden | Custodied by PSP | Software keys only |
| Multi-chain support | 70+ networks | Limited by dev capacity | Limited asset set | Single or few chains |
| Embedded wallets (seedless UX) | Yes, with multi-device sync | Must build from scratch | Not offered | Varies |
| Programmable transaction policies | Granular, infrastructure-level | Application-layer only | Not available | Not available |
| Automation flows & sweep logic | Native, API-driven | Custom build required | Limited | Not available |
| Settlement network connectivity | 2,400+ institutions | Not available | Not available | Not available |
| Compliance & AML integrations | Native + partner integrations | Custom build required | Provider-dependent | Rarely offered |
| Counterparty / vendor risk | You own the assets, independent recovery for embedded wallets | Self-managed | Exposed to PSP health | Vendor-dependent |
How Web3 Companies Build & Scale with Fireblocks
Fireblocks’ Web3 customer base spans chain foundations, consumer applications, and gaming platforms. Each of the customer segments are leveraging different parts of the platform to solve distinct infrastructure challenges.
For chain foundations, Fireblocks delivers deep wallet support, including embedded wallets, and developer on-ramps that reduce the technical overhead for multi-chain building. Ongoing ecosystem partnerships continue to scale alongside each network’s developer community.
In the consumer segment, platforms have used Fireblocks’ embedded wallet infrastructure to bring blockchain-native features to mainstream users without requiring those users to understand the underlying technology. The result is Web3 functionality that behaves like a Web2 product. Companies can retain users who would otherwise drop off at the wallet creation step.
In iGaming, Fireblocks has become the infrastructure layer for operators replacing PSP-dependent payment stacks with operator-owned flows. With over 40M+ igaming wallets secured and $4B in monthly igaming volume, the platform has demonstrated its ability to operate at gaming-scale transaction volumes. Operators who have made the transition report not just cost savings from eliminated PSP fees, but meaningfully improved treasury control. This includes the ability to deploy yield strategies on accumulated crypto positions.
Getting Started with Fireblocks: Tools & Onboarding for Web3
Fireblocks offers a structured onboarding path for Web3 companies, with resources designed to reduce time-to-production and provide ongoing support as your product scales.
A full sandbox and testnet environment is available so your engineering team can build and validate integrations before committing to production infrastructure. Comprehensive developer documentation gives teams everything they need to build with confidence. These include API references, multi-language SDKs, and the Fireblocks Academy.
Chain foundations and consumer apps working with Fireblocks have access to dedicated solutions engineers who specialize in Web3 infrastructure, alongside account management teams familiar with the specific dynamics of each segment.
Talk to sales to learn more or start exploring the API and SDK documentation today.
