Komainu, the institutional gateway for digital assets backed by Laser Digital and Blockstream, today announced a partnership with Gate to expand access to Off-Exchange Settlement (OES) through Komainu Connect, enabling institutional clients to trade on Gate while maintaining assets in regulated, segregated custody.
Institutional clients need a market structure aligned with traditional finance: custody and execution should remain independent, with strong governance, transparency, and operational controls.
Institutional-grade custody and collateral management, connected to liquidity
Komainu provides seamless, connected, and secure services designed specifically for institutional investors – bridging traditional finance standards with digital asset innovation.
Through Komainu Connect, clients can trade, borrow, and lend while keeping assets in custody, reducing operational friction and addressing key institutional concerns around counterparty exposure.
Strengthening security and transparency for institutional trading
Gate and Komainu share a common priority: safeguarding client assets.
Komainu’s custody infrastructure is built on segregated, on-chain wallet architecture, avoiding omnibus wallet structures. This provides bankruptcy remoteness, legal clarity, and transparency – while delivering the familiar governance and operational workflows expected by institutional clients, including maker/checker controls and robust approval frameworks.
Key benefits of the Gate x Komainu integration
By leveraging Komainu Connect, institutional clients can access Gate’s deep liquidity and broad product offering while maintaining custody protections and operational control.
Key benefits include:
- Transparency and legal clarity: 100% of assets held in bankruptcy-remote segregated on-chain wallets
- Regulated custody: Assets remain held with a regulated custodian under strong governance standards
- Daily settlement process: Enhancing liquidity and improving trading efficiency
- Holistic custody & collateral view: Dedicated wallets with client-by-client segregation and clear reporting
- Capital efficiency and reduced counterparty risk: Clients can actively trade without moving assets onto an exchange
- Broad collateral support: Comprehensive asset coverage, supporting a growing list of institutional-grade assets
Darren Jordan, Chief Commercial Officer at Komainu, said:
We’re pleased to welcome Gate to the Komainu Connect ecosystem. Institutions need secure and seamless access to liquidity, and this integration delivers exactly that. Partnering with Gate further broadens our network of trusted venues and supports our mission to make institutional digital asset trading safer and more efficient.”
Looking ahead, the partnership with Gate represents another step in Komainu’s mission to strengthen institutional digital asset market infrastructure – supporting secure, scalable access to liquidity while maintaining independent custody, robust risk controls, and the standards expected by global institutional investors.
Addis Hu, Global Head of Institutional Business at Gate, said:
We’re pleased to collaborate with Komainu to broaden institutional access to Gate’s liquidity through an off-exchange settlement model. As institutional participation in digital assets grows, market structure is evolving toward clearer separation between custody and execution.
This collaboration with Komainu underscores our continued commitment to institutional infrastructure expansion and the ongoing evolution of Superlink. By enabling clients to trade on Gate while assets remain in regulated, segregated custody, this integration delivers superior risk management and capital efficiency outcomes. We view flexible settlement frameworks as critical infrastructure as digital asset markets mature and align with institutional-grade financial standards.
About Komainu
Komainu is the institutional gateway for digital assets, headquartered in Jersey, with offices in London, Dubai, and Singapore. Offering bank-grade infrastructure for institutional investors, Komainu provides seamless, connected and secure services with multi-jurisdictional regulatory oversight, merging expertise from traditional financial services with leading security standards for the next generation of institutional digital asset custody, servicing & financing.
Komainu (Jersey) Limited is regulated by the Jersey Financial Services Commission.
Komainu MEA FZE is regulated by the Dubai Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority.
For more information, visit https://www.komainu.com
About Gate
Established in 2013, Gate is one of the world’s pioneering cryptocurrency exchanges, serving over 50 million users globally. It consistently ranks among the top 3 globally in both trading volume and liquidity. Gate is currently ranked second globally in 24-hour spot trading volume, supporting spot trading, futures trading, margin trading, and wealth management products for over 4,400 cryptocurrencies. The platform offers comprehensive and diversified digital asset trading and blockchain application services. It employs zero-knowledge technology to ensure the 100% verifiability of user assets. As of January 6, 2026, the overall reserve coverage ratio increased from 124% to 125%, with total reserves reaching $9.478 billion, well above the industry safety benchmark of 100%. The reserves support nearly 500 different types of user assets.
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