# kaal:claim:3936876-004

**Claim.** The majority of digital asset custody providers and digital asset exchanges require customers to surrender ownership of their digital assets as a precondition for access and trading.

**Type.** empirical  **Support.** asserted

**Source quote.**

> The majority of digital asset custody providers and digital asset exchanges are requiring customers to surrender digital asset ownership in order to get access and trade.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, Hayley Howe, *Custody of Digital Assets* (2021), I. Introduction, page 3

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Hayley Howe, Custody of Digital Assets (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3936876

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `9bc0903d01910460298e754c451f027df4324367359800a98ee8e638d94aff55` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Kaal%20and%20Howe%20-%202021%20-%20Custody%20of%20Digital%20Assets.pdf

**Failure mode.** ownership surrender as price of access  (family: custody-and-key-loss)

**Topics.** defi

**Keywords.** custody, exchanges, ownership-surrender, digital-assets

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