Safeheron and Chainalysis Partner to Integrate Real-Time Compliance Intelligence into Institutional Self-Custody

Safeheron and Chainalysis have announced a partnership that integrates Chainalysis KYT directly into Safeheron’s institutional self-custody platform. The partnership brings together Safeheron’s MPC- and TEE-based key management and custody orchestration with Chainalysis KYT — making real-time AML screening a native part of how joint customers manage and move digital assets.

The Compliance Bar Has Risen Fast

For institutions operating in digital assets today, the question is no longer whether to invest in compliance, it is where compliance lives in the operational stack. And the standard keeps climbing: Chainalysis’ latest research found that nearly half of organizations onboarded in 2026 now run monitoring at a level of strictness that only the top 10% of firms reached in 2020. What counts as a standard configuration today would have been considered best-in-class just five years ago. AML screening, transaction monitoring, and audit-ready reporting are not periodic exercises; they are ongoing requirements that run in parallel with every approval, every fund flow, every settlement.

The institutions that scale most effectively are those that have resolved this as an infrastructure question, not a process question. Compliance that sits outside the operational layer creates friction, introduces lag, and leaves gaps. Compliance that is embedded in the platform where assets are controlled and transactions are executed is a different proposition entirely.

That is what this partnership is built around. Chainalysis is the leading blockchain data platform trusted by financial institutions worldwide to connect the movement of digital assets to real-world services. Bringing that intelligence into Safeheron means institutional clients no longer operate between two systems — the compliance layer and the custody layer become one.

What This Means for Institutions

Safeheron is the trusted operational infrastructure for institutional digital asset businesses. Powered by open-source MPC and TEE technologies, Safeheron covers the full operational lifecycle — from key management and multi-party approval workflows to transaction execution and business growth — while ensuring institutions maintain complete sovereignty over their assets.

Chainalysis is the blockchain data platform, making it easy to connect the movement of digital assets to real-world services. Chainalysis KYT screens and monitors transactions in real time against AML policies, enabling institutions to track illicit activity, manage risk exposure, and produce the structured evidence trail that auditors and regulators expect.

Together, institutions get a complete operational environment where security, efficiency, and compliance work as one. Institutions already subscribed to Chainalysis can activate the integration with their existing API key. For institutions onboarding to both platforms, the two environments are configured together from the outset.

Together, the integration delivers concrete outcomes across the institution:

• Compliance and AML teams get real-time screening applied at the point of execution, with consistent policy enforcement across every asset class and wallet operation in Safeheron.
• Risk, audit, and legal teams work from a single source of truth, where every approve, hold, or block decision maps back to a defined policy, a named approver, and a time-stamped record — a clear trail from risk signal to outcome.
• Product and innovation leaders can go live with new digital asset products that are compliant from day one. Connect KYT once and the same risk layer extends automatically to every new asset class and wallet operation, with no repeated integration work.
• Treasury and operations teams replace ad hoc approvals with standardized, policy-driven workflows that automatically route, queue, or freeze flows based on real-time risk verdicts, all from a single interface.

What Our Teams Are Saying

Wade Wang, CEO, Safeheron:

“Institutions operating at scale need compliance and operations to work as one — not as adjacent systems that teams have to reconcile after the fact. Partnering with Chainalysis means our clients have access to deep blockchain intelligence directly within their operations environment. For institutions already running Chainalysis, this is available from day one with a single API key. That is the level of integration that actually moves the needle.”

Shannon Hughes, Senior Director, Head of Business Development and Partnerships, Chainalysis:

“As institutional capital moves into digital assets, it brings a demand for regulatory defensibility – and the quality of a firm’s monitoring tooling and configuration is fast becoming a genuine competitive advantage rather than a cost of doing business. Our partnership with Safeheron embeds Chainalysis KYT directly into the custody and operations layer, so every transaction carries a compliance verdict before it moves, not after the fact.”

About Safeheron

Safeheron is the world’s leading digital asset self-custody provider. Built on fully in-house developed, open-source Secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC) and Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) technologies, Safeheron delivers institutional-grade self-custody infrastructure and industry-specific solutions at the highest security standards. Its clients span payment firms, liquidity providers (OTC), digital banks, RWA platforms, trust and asset managers, and commodity trade finance — enabling 100% client control over private keys and assets, and powering full lifecycle digital asset management, operations, and business growth.

Learn more about Safeheron at safeheron.com.

About Chainalysis

Chainalysis is the blockchain data platform, making it easy to connect the movement of digital assets to real-world services. Powered by deep blockchain data and AI, organizations can investigate illicit activity, manage risk exposure, and develop innovative market solutions built on the industry’s most trusted blockchain intelligence. Our mission is to build trust in blockchains, blending safety and security with an unwavering commitment to growth and innovation. 

For more information, visit chainalysis.com.