Seba Bank Launches Regulated Depository Platform for NFTs
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Seba Financial institution has launched a regulated custody platform that enables its prospects to retailer NFTs, which the corporate formally introduced on October 26. The NFT custodial answer permits retail and institutional shoppers of Seba Financial institution to retailer any Ethereum-based NFT, together with Bored Apes and CryptoPunks assortment tokens. Urs BERNEGGER, co-head of markets and funding options at Seba Financial institution, burdened that Seba is regulated by the Swiss Monetary Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) and has a “core competence” in cryptocurrencies.
Seba’s new NFT storage platform is designed to supply its prospects with safe NFT storage with out the necessity to handle personal keys themselves. This function is built-in into buyer financial institution accounts, permitting prospects to incorporate their NFTs within the complete wealth image and handle them like every other digital asset.
Seba Financial institution’s NFT custodial launch comes at a troublesome time for the NFT market. NFT weekly buying and selling volumes are down 98% year-to-date as of the tip of September 2022. The typical NFT value additionally fell sharply, with the common weekly buying and selling quantity of NFTs dropping by about 30% in September in comparison with August. Alternatively, the variety of NFT wallets has grown this yr, practically doubling from 3.4 mln in January to six.1 mln in September.
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