ecrop offers innovative solutions for the challenges of digital asset management. Our platform supports you in the issuance and custody of crypto securities and crypto assets, as well as in compliance with all relevant regulatory requirements. Additionally, ecrop provides solutions for asset tokenization, management of employee participation programs, and other use cases. The following use cases illustrate the added value of ecrop for your company.

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Issuance of Crypto Securities

  • Challenge: The issuance of securities is traditionally a complex, time-consuming, and cost-intensive process. Compliance with regulatory requirements (e.g., eWpG, prospectus regulation) presents major challenges for issuers and ties up valuable resources.
  • Solution: ecrop digitalizes and automates the entire issuance process from creating the issuance application through tokenization to registration in the crypto securities register. Our platform ensures compliance with all relevant legal requirements and offers seamless integration with existing systems.
  • Benefits:
    • Efficiency and Transparency: Reduction of manual effort and transaction costs through automation and digital processing.
    • Compliance: Minimization of compliance risks through automated checks and controls that ensure adherence to all relevant regulations.
    • Security: Blockchain technology ensures data integrity and authenticity and provides real-time transparency for all participants.
    • Faster Processing: Digitalized processes accelerate issuance processing and reduce time-to-market.
    • Access to New Investor Base: Digital securities enable access to new investor groups and increase liquidity.
    Example: A real estate fund wants to issue a digital bond to finance the construction of a new real estate project. With ecrop, the fund can process the entire issuance digitally and issue the bond as a crypto security in the ecrop register. This saves the fund time and costs, minimizes compliance risks, and increases transparency for investors.

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Custody of Crypto Assets (KWG License)

  • Challenge: The secure custody of crypto assets presents major challenges for institutional investors. The loss or theft of private cryptographic keys can lead to significant financial losses. The management of wallets and keys is complex, time-consuming, and requires specialized expertise.
  • Solution: ecrop offers secure and regulated custody of crypto assets (license pending) in cold storage in accordance with the requirements of the KWG and CryptoAssetTransferV. Clients’ private cryptographic keys are generated and stored offline in Hardware Security Modules (HSMs), protecting them from unauthorized access and cyber attacks. ecrop handles the complex management of wallets and keys, thus relieving its clients.
  • Benefits:
    • Maximum Security: Cold storage and HSMs provide highest protection against loss, theft, and unauthorized access to private cryptographic keys.
    • Reduced Operational Risk: ecrop handles the complex management of wallets and keys, thus minimizing operational risk.
    • Compliance with Regulatory Requirements: Custody is provided in accordance with applicable regulatory requirements (KWG, CryptoAssetTransferV) and BaFin requirements.
    • Transparency and Control: Clients have constant insight into their holdings and transactions and can track compliance with regulatory requirements.
    Example: A pension fund wants to hold crypto assets as part of its investment strategy but is concerned about security risks. With ecrop, the pension fund can have its crypto assets securely held in cold storage and focus on its core business. ecrop handles the management of wallets and keys, minimizing operational risk and ensuring compliance.

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Staking of Crypto Assets

  • Challenge: While staking crypto assets offers the opportunity to generate additional returns, it also comes with technical and operational challenges. Setting up and operating validators requires technical expertise, ongoing monitoring, and can be time-consuming.
  • Solution: ecrop offers a secure and efficient staking service for selected crypto assets, such as Ethereum (ETH). We operate the validators for our clients and handle the complex technical implementation. Our monitoring system oversees staking performance and ensures maximum distribution of rewards.
  • Benefits:
    • Additional Returns: Generate passive income through staking your crypto assets.
    • Reduced Operational Effort: ecrop handles the technical implementation and operation of validators.
    • Maximum Security: Our infrastructure and processes meet the highest security standards.
    • Transparent Reward Distribution: You receive regular and traceable payments of your staking rewards.
    • Optimized Staking Performance: Our monitoring system ensures maximum distribution of rewards and minimizes slashing risk.
    Example: A family office wants to use its ETH holdings for staking but lacks the required technical expertise. With ecrop, the family office can participate in staking without having to operate its own validators. ecrop handles the technical implementation and ensures maximum distribution of staking rewards.

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Crypto Shares as an Innovative Solution

  • Challenge: The traditional securities market is often inefficient, non-transparent, and associated with high costs. Long settlement times and limited tradability make it difficult for smaller companies and investors to access capital.
  • Solution: Crypto securities offer a modern, digital, and blockchain-based alternative. They enable faster, more cost-effective, and transparent transactions, increase tradability, and open up new financing opportunities. The eWpG regulation creates a secure legal framework for electronic securities, and ecrop, as a BaFin-regulated crypto securities registry manager and crypto custodian, provides the necessary infrastructure and expertise.
  • Benefits:
    • Efficiency and Transparency: Faster, more cost-effective, and transparent transactions through the use of blockchain technology.
    • Increased Tradability: Improved liquidity through access to a broader investor base and the possibility of trading on regulated markets.
    • New Financing Opportunities: Opening up new capital sources, e.g., through equity crowdinvestment.
    • Innovation and Automation: Possibility to integrate smart contracts for automated processes and corporate actions processing.
    • Future Trading: Trading of crypto securities on regulated exchanges and DLT trading venues. Secure and efficient transfer of crypto securities between trading platforms and wallets.
    Example: An SME wants to raise equity capital to finance its growth. By issuing crypto shares through the ecrop platform, the SME can reach a broad investor base and benefit from the advantages of equity crowdfunding.
    • Future trading of crypto securities on regulated exchanges: Secure and efficient transfer of crypto securities between wallets. Future integration with trading platforms for increased liquidity.