Utila’s monthly brief for teams
building with digital assets

SECURITY

Utila Is Now ISO 27001:2022 Certified

Security and procurement teams need independent evidence of how infrastructure providers manage information security. Utila is now ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified, adding another reference point for vendor assessments alongside our SOC 2 Type II report. Institutions can review both through our Trust Center to understand their scope and relevance to the services they plan to build.

STABLECOIN STRATEGY

Explore Hidden Costs Behind Every Stablecoin Payment

A low platform fee can still leave your payment business with thin margins once conversion spreads, payout charges and prefunding are included. To help buyers assess the full economics, our comparison of modular and bundled stablecoin infrastructure models examines who sets those costs, how much counterparty choice you retain, and what happens when your licensing needs change.

WEBINAR

Choose Your Stablecoin Licensing Path

Pursuing a license takes time and resources, while launching through a licensed partner introduces dependencies that affect your product and customer experience. To help teams weigh those choices, our latest Stablecoin Builder Series brings together leaders from Surus, Fipto, CoinGate and Balance. The discussion covers when each route makes sense, which responsibilities your team retains, and how to plan a transition as the business grows.

DEFI RISK MANAGEMENT

How Governance Keeps You Safe from Hacks

Transaction restrictions offer limited protection if the authority to change them is too broad. Following Resolv’s security rebuild, our analysis examines how the team introduced narrowly defined permissions and a separate approval process for changing those permissions. It explains the lessons for teams managing onchain capital, including where wallet controls end and protocol and investment risks require separate assessment.

IMPLEMENTATION GUIDES

Plan Your Next Stablecoin Product

Unclear deposit handling and approval rules become manual work as payment volumes grow. To help teams resolve these decisions before implementation, we’ve put together four guides based on our work with payment and treasury teams:

For the resilience case behind a secondary environment, our wallet continuity analysis examines the dependencies that can interrupt signing and how to prepare an alternative path.

TRON GAS STATION

Send USDT Without Managing TRX Balances

Keeping TRX funded across sending wallets adds recurring work to USDT payment operations. Utila Gas Station handles energy and bandwidth acquisition from a single USDT-funded balance, removing the need to hold TRX in each sending wallet. Available through the Console and API, it retains existing transaction approvals and can reduce fees by up to 70% compared with standard TRX burn costs.

PRODUCT UPDATES

Less Overhead Across Wallet Operations

Here are some recent product updates that simplify transfers and give operations teams clearer visibility into their wallets:

For banks planning issuance, our tokenization walkthrough also explains how to govern minting, burning and holder permissions, with an audit history for token operations.

PARTNERSHIP UPDATES

Connect Wallets to Financial Workflows

Wallet operations need to connect with the systems that account for funds and settle transactions between institutions. These customer deployments and partnerships show how teams bring those functions together while defining control over asset movements:

  • Cryptio: Connect Utila wallet activity with independent reconciliation and accounting, helping finance teams verify balances and prepare financial reports.

  • Presto: Access Prime and Forte USDC lending vaults through existing Utila wallets and approval policies. Presto also uses Utila’s MPC infrastructure to govern its own onchain trading and DeFi operations.

  • Ownera: Pairing Utila’s wallet governance with Ownera’s FinP2P network and SuperApps platform to support connectivity and controlled asset movements across institutions.

  • Open Standard and OUSD: Giving payment and treasury teams another stablecoin option, with Utila supporting OUSD operations across Base, Ethereum, Solana and Tempo.

  • DTCC’s industry working group: Utila has joined more than 100 firms contributing to institutional tokenization, bringing experience in signing infrastructure and transaction governance to the discussion.

See Utila in Action

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