Institutions ask AI which crypto custodian to appoint.
Is your firm named?
Funds and corporate treasuries appointing a digital asset custodian now begin with ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity. Citably shows crypto custody providers which custodians those engines name, then deploys the fix from the same dashboard.
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The AEO problem facing crypto custody providers
Custodian selection is a controls question before it is a product question
An operations team appointing a digital asset custodian asks who is a qualified custodian, who segregates client assets, and who carries insurance. AI engines answer from regulator registers, audit reports, and insurance disclosures, then name two or three custodians. Citably shows crypto custody providers which of those sources decided the answer.
Qualified custodian status is claimed loosely and read literally
The phrase qualified custodian carries a specific meaning to a fund administrator and a looser one in marketing copy. AI engines quote whichever crypto custody provider stated its licences and jurisdictions precisely, and a firm that blurred that line is either skipped or described in terms its own counsel would not accept.
Institutional diligence rewards evidence, not positioning
Crypto custody providers compete on attestations, key management, and insurance limits, none of which an AI engine can infer from a homepage. The custodians named in these answers published the evidence, and Citably tracks which crypto custody providers hold those positions week over week.
Similar to AEO for blockchain and AEO for RWA tokenization, the same free scan shows exactly where AI engines skip custodians.
Crypto custody providers winning AI answers with Citably
“Qualified custodian questions named two firms and never us, despite holding the licences. Citably identified the registers behind those answers and we now appear in six of ten institutional custody prompts.”
“Publishing our insurance limits and segregation model as structured data, exactly as Citably specified, got us quoted on treasury custody questions within a month.”
“Our attestations sat in a PDF nobody could read. Citably showed us that was why allocators kept hearing about other custodians instead.”
How Citably gets crypto custodians recommended by AI engines
Three steps, run by Citably for crypto custody providers.
Scan your custody firm
Enter your firm URL and Citably runs the real prompts institutions ask when appointing a custodian, such as which qualified custodians hold digital assets, across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity.
See the custody answer gaps
The Citably dashboard shows every crypto custody prompt where your firm is missing, which custodian AI names instead, and whether the answer rested on a regulator register, an audit report, or an insurance disclosure.
Deploy and win custody citations
Citably deploys citable assets built for crypto custody providers, including controls and insurance disclosures, drafted for your compliance team to approve before anything publishes.
Watch crypto custody answers flip in 30 days
The same institutional appointment prompts, before and after deploying Citably assets.
Citable assets built for crypto custody providers
Templates Citably deploys for crypto custody providers, drafted for compliance review before publishing.
Custody Controls Disclosure
A structured statement of key management, segregation, and withdrawal approval controls. AI engines cite structured controls data when institutions ask which crypto custodian is most secure.
Licence and Jurisdiction Register
Your licences, regulators, and the jurisdictions each covers, stated precisely enough for a fund administrator. Structured for AI engines to quote on qualified custodian questions.
Insurance Coverage Explainer
A clear page on what is insured, to what limit, by whom, and what falls outside cover. Schema marked so AI engines cite your firm when treasuries ask which custodians carry insurance.
Frequently asked questions
Citably tracks AI visibility for crypto custody providers across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Claude. Citably runs the real prompts funds and treasuries ask when appointing a digital asset custodian, records which custody providers each engine names, and reports the source behind every answer.
Yes. Citably records the full answer text for every crypto custody prompt, including whether an engine treats your firm as a qualified custodian and which jurisdictions it attributes to you. Custody providers use that to correct imprecise descriptions at the source.
AI engines name the crypto custody providers whose controls, licences, and insurance are published in a readable form, not the firms with the strongest setup. Attestations locked inside a PDF give an engine nothing to quote, and Citably shows which registers and disclosures won the answer instead.
Crypto custody providers using Citably typically see their first new AI citations within 2 to 4 weeks of deploying assets, as AI engines re-crawl the registers, audit reports, and institutional roundups they pull custody answers from. Citably tracks won, lost, held, and new citations for your firm week over week.
AI engines are already naming custodians to your next institutional client.
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