Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Trever is the operating standard for digital asset banking and brokerage. The company provides a Digital Asset Operating System that enables regulated financial institutions to execute, move, and record digital assets such as crypto, stablecoins, tokenized securities, and more within one integrated infrastructure.

Trever's Digital Asset Operating System is institutional infrastructure for managing the full lifecycle of digital assets. It combines order and execution management, treasury management, settlement, bookkeeping, reconciliation, in a single system and connects to 40+ providers. This helps institutions avoid fragmented processes and operate digital assets with greater control, transparency, and scalability.

Trever is a technology and infrastructure provider, not holding a financial license. Instead, it enables regulated institutions to operate digital assets under MiCAR.

Trever is built for regulated financial institutions such as banks, brokers, OTC Desks, proprietary traders, financial commissioners and exchanges that want to offer digital assets. It is relevant for institutions that need scalable infrastructure, regulatory alignment, auditability, and integration with existing banking systems.

Digital asset operations are often fragmented across trading venues, custodians, liquidity providers, wallets, blockchains, and internal banking systems. Trever solves this by connecting these components through one operating layer and automating key workflows such as trading, treasury management, settlement, bookkeeping, and reporting. Trever reduces operational complexity, manual effort, integration burden, and compliance risk.

Yes. As an EU-based infrastructure provider, Trever is built for European financial institutions operating under MiCAR. It supports requirements around auditability, operational resilience, record-keeping, best execution monitoring, and digital asset operations in an EU regulatory context.

Trever supports cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, tokenized securities, crypto securities, asset-reference tokens, CBDCs, and more digital assets. It also natively supports Fiat and FX, so institutions can manage traditional currency positions alongside digital holdings in the same system.

SOC 2® Type II and GDPR compliant, certified to ISO/IEC 27001:2022, and built to support institutions in meeting DORA and MiCA requirements.

Yes, Trever is a cloud-based infrastructure solution. It is designed for institutional digital asset operations with high availability, secure hosting, and integration into existing systems. For institutions with specific requirements, a dedicated, single-tenant deployment is also available.

Building digital asset infrastructure in-house requires a detailed understanding of the digital asset market, deep technical expertise and long-term resources to maintain integrations, compliance logic, and 24/7 operations. Buying a specialized infrastructure solution, which is compatible with core banking systems, reduces time to market, operational risk, and long-term complexity.

Trever is not a one-stop shop or brokerage solution. The company acts as an operating layer that connects institutions to different custodians, trading venues, liquidity providers, data providers, and internal systems. This gives institutions flexibility and avoids vendor lock-in while still providing one central system to manage digital asset operations.

Custody providers primarily safeguard digital assets and provide wallet or safekeeping infrastructure. Trever does not replace custodians; it connects to them and orchestrates the broader operational lifecycle beyond custody, including trading, settlement, treasury management, bookkeeping, reconciliation, and reporting. This means institutions can use one or multiple custody providers while managing their operations centrally through Trever.

Trever can be compared with institutional digital asset infrastructure providers such as Talos or Wyden in certain areas, especially around trading connectivity and order/execution workflows. However, Trever positions itself more broadly as a Digital Asset Operating System, covering not only trading but also treasury management, settlement, bookkeeping, reconciliation, and operational lifecycle management. Its EU-based focus and infrastructure approach make it particularly relevant for regulated European financial institutions.

In Europe, institutions often evaluate platforms such as Trever, Wyden, Talos, and regulated providers or venue-specific infrastructures depending on whether they need execution only or a broader operating system. Trever is best positioned for institutions that need more than trading - an integrated system for execution, movement, settlement, bookkeeping, and operations across multiple providers.

No. Trever does not replace a bank's core banking system. It sits alongside and integrates with existing systems, acting as the digital asset operating layer that manages asset-specific workflows such as execution, treasury management, settlement, bookkeeping, and reconciliation.

Yes, Trever includes order and execution management capabilities for digital assets. However, it is broader than a standalone OEMS, because it also covers treasury, settlement, bookkeeping, reconciliation, and operational lifecycle management. This makes Trever an operating system rather than only a trading front end.

Trever supports best execution by connecting institutions to multiple venues and enabling transparent execution workflows across liquidity sources. The system can help capture and structure relevant order, execution, price, and transaction data for monitoring and audit purposes. This gives institutions the operational basis to assess execution quality and document decisions.

Yes, Trever does support smart order routing as part of its execution and venue connectivity capabilities. Smart order routing helps institutions access liquidity across multiple connected venues and optimize execution based on defined parameters. This is especially useful where institutions want to avoid dependence on a single venue or liquidity source.

Trever supports operational workflows around omnibus wallet setups by helping institutions track, allocate, reconcile, and record digital asset movements at the customer or account level. This is important because omnibus structures require clear internal bookkeeping and precise allocation of balances and transactions. Trever's bookkeeping, treasury management, and reconciliation capabilities help create transparency between on-chain movements, custody structures, and internal records.

Yes. Trever is modular and can be used for selected parts of the digital asset lifecycle, such as treasury, settlement, transfers, reconciliation, or bookkeeping. This allows banks to keep an existing trading or execution system while using Trever as the operating layer for post-trade and back-office processes.

Yes. Trever includes bookkeeping, reconciliation and reporting for digital asset operations, helping institutions record orders, transactions, transfers, balances, and operational events in a structured way. This is especially important because traditional subledgers often lack the precision needed for digital assets, on-chain events, and 24/7 settlement flows.

Trever supports the data foundation required for regulatory and operational reporting by creating structured, auditable records of digital asset transactions and events. It can support record-keeping, audit trails, reconciliation, and reporting workflows, often in combination with specialized third-party integrations where needed. Tax reporting itself may depend on the jurisdiction, reporting format, and connected reporting provider.

Yes. Trever is designed as an agnostic infrastructure layer that allows institutions to connect to different custodians, trading venues, liquidity providers, and other external systems. Because these connections run through Trever's standardized integration layer, institutions can add or switch providers without needing to change their existing implementation. This helps institutions avoid being locked into one provider and enables them to adapt their setup as their strategy, regulatory needs, or market access requirements change.

Trever is connecting to over 40 venues and ecosystem providers. More information is provided on trever.io.

Trever can be integrated into existing institutional systems via APIs (REST APIs, WebSocket, Webhooks,...) and is designed to act as a single integration layer for multiple digital asset functions and external venues. Standardized API endpoints support white-label and system-to-system integration scenarios.

Implementation time depends on the scope, integrations, selected modules, asset classes, and the institution's internal processes. Because Trever provides pre-integrated connectivity and modular infrastructure, implementation can be significantly faster than building and maintaining a full digital asset stack in-house. A typical project would be defined through workshops covering the operating model, trading, treasury, integrations, testing, and go-live requirements.

Trever supports institutions during onboarding with expertise around operating model design, integrations, testing, and go-live preparation. After onboarding, Trever provides ongoing support for system operation, maintenance, and the expansion of modules, venues, or asset classes. The goal is to help institutions move from concept to live digital asset operations with a scalable and future-proof setup.

Yes, Trever can provide a sandbox or demo environment to help institutions explore the platform. The exact scope will be aligned with the institution's use case, integrations, and evaluation needs.