Swiss Bankers Get Degen Pilled: Blockfort's Regulated NFT Vault Goes Live

Blockfort, the Swiss digital-asset custodian that decided crypto winter was a perfect time to launch in January 2025, has just unveiled its Digital Art Fortress. Think of it as a high-security, regulatory-approved panic room where institutions can HODL their JPEGs on both Tezos and its EVM cousin, Etherlink.

Not content with just being a glorified crypto safe, Blockfort is also throwing in staking and trading services for the pros. The entire operation is nestled in the Swiss Alps, where it diligently follows the local rulebook—probably written in a vault deeper than the one storing the NFTs.

Tezos has been doing its best "art aficionado" impression since 2021, with the Tezos Foundation bankrolling protocol glow-ups and ecosystem parties. Thanks to a partnership with that very foundation, Blockfort can now offer galleries and institutional bag holders a place to store their NFTs that's as regulated as a Swiss watch.

The Digital Art Fortress is essentially a triple-layer security burrito: Swiss-regulated custody, fortress-like architecture, and audited procedures. Clients get to store, gawk at, and manage their digital Picassos through a dashboard so sleek it probably has a Swiss bank account of its own.