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Cardano Native Tokens to get full institutional custody support on Fireblocks by March 2027
The integration removes a long-standing operational barrier for institutions looking to hold and transfer CNTs through regulated infrastructure.
Institutions that want exposure to Cardano-based assets have always faced a quiet but persistent problem: the tokens themselves were not natively supported by the industry’s dominant custody infrastructure. That changes with a new integration between the Cardano Foundation and Fireblocks, announced September 24, 2026, which will bring full native support for Cardano Native Tokens to the Fireblocks platform by March 2027.
The practical meaning of that is significant. Before this deal, institutions handling CNTs had to rely on manual processes or raw signing workarounds. Now they will be able to custody, send, and receive CNTs using the same policy controls and security architecture already applied to other digital assets on the platform.
Why this is a bigger deal than it sounds
Fireblocks is not a niche player. The platform secures roughly $16 trillion in digital asset transactions and is used by thousands of banks, fintechs, and asset managers worldwide.
Cardano’s native token ADA has had Fireblocks support since August 2021, but CNTs sitting on the same blockchain were left in a gray zone, requiring bespoke solutions that most compliance-conscious institutions would not touch. This integration standardizes the whole stack.
Frederik Gregaard, CEO of the Cardano Foundation, framed the announcement in direct terms, saying the integration removes a key barrier to institutional demand for tokenized assets on Cardano.
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What gets supported and how
The integration covers tokens that conform to two specific Cardano standards: CIP-26, the Cardano Token Registry, and CIP-68, the on-chain metadata standard. Those two frameworks effectively define the universe of properly structured CNTs, including stablecoins and tokenized real-world assets being built on the network.
On the security side, institutions using Fireblocks will get access to the platform’s multi-party computation architecture, known as MPC. MPC splits private key control across multiple parties so that no single point of compromise can drain a wallet.
Fireblocks’ existing policy layer now extends to CNTs, meaning institutions can treat them with the same operational seriousness as Bitcoin or Ethereum holdings.
A May 2026 integration with Iagon had already added staking and governance functionality for Cardano via an SDK, giving institutions a partial on-ramp. This new announcement goes further by addressing the core custody and transfer layer that underpins everything else.
What this means for Cardano’s institutional roadmap
The March 2027 go-live date gives both sides roughly six months from announcement to implementation, which is a reasonable timeline for the kind of technical certification and compliance review that institutional platforms require before flipping a switch on a new asset class.