Archax
“Can Archax become the regulated institutional gateway connecting traditional finance asset managers to public blockchain infrastructure through tokenization and compliant custody?”
Founded in 2018, Archax was built from inception as a regulated institutional digital asset venue — the first FCA-regulated digital securities exchange, broker and custodian in the UK. Rather than pivoting from a consumer base, Archax deepened its institutional focus over time, evolving from pure exchange/custody into tokenization-as-a-service for major asset managers (BlackRock, Fidelity, State Street, Aberdeen). By 2026 it was expanding settlement infrastructure through an OpenPayd partnership and pushing tokenized real-world assets onto public Layer 1 blockchains such as Aptos and Hedera.