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Unsure about which custody model is right for you?

Read our “Guide to Digital Asset Wallets and Service Providers” for insights into evaluating digital asset wallet and service providers for your business

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Overview

Fireblocks provides customers with an option to choose what custody model works best for their use case. In this guide we will outline the main technical and conceptual differences between Embedded Wallets and Direct Custody wallets. Following are the main differences between direct custody and Embedded Wallets wallets in Fireblocks.
  1. Direct custody wallets use a 3-of-3 multi-party computation (MPC) signature scheme while Embedded Wallets wallets use a 2-of-2 signature scheme.
  2. There is only one master key per workspace for direct custody wallets, while each Embedded Wallets wallet has its own master key.
  3. UTXO-based assets, such as BTC, can have multiple deposit addresses per wallet per vault account for direct custody wallets. For Embedded Wallets wallets, one wallet can have multiple accounts while each account can hold only 1 BTC address.
  4. The Fireblocks Network and exchange integrations are supported for direct custody wallets only.