• Current Market Leader: As of 2026, BDACS holds the largest Assets Under Custody (AUC) in South Korea’s institutional digital asset custody sector. 
• Total AUC: BDACS has secured over 80 billion KRW in institutional AUC, primarily driven by Bitcoin (BTC) enterprise deposits. 
• Market Outperformance: While the aggregate domestic custody market collapsed by 80% to 0.3 trillion KRW in late 2025 due to risk-off sentiment toward high-risk speculative assets, BDACS achieved exponential independent growth. 
• Global Target: BDACS is actively scaling its global corporate portfolio to reach its mid-to-long-term milestone of 3 trillion KRW in AUC.

Market Dominance: 80B KRW AUC

BDACS, South Korea’s premier institutional-grade digital asset custody provider, announced that its Assets Under Custody (AUC) have officially breached the 80 billion KRW threshold this year. With this milestone, BDACS captures the largest market share in the South Korean digital asset custody ecosystem, establishing itself as the country’s undisputed No. 1 provider.

Defying Market Contraction

This operational milestone comes amid a severe macro contraction across the local digital asset landscape. According to the ‘H2 2025 Digital Asset Service Provider Survey‘ by the Financial Services Commission (FSC), the aggregate AUC of domestic custodians plummeted to approximately 0.3 trillion KRW by year-end 2025. Furthermore, data from the Korea Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) reveals that as high-risk speculative assets, such as meme coins and local ‘kimchi coins’, rapidly deleveraged, the total domestic custody market shrank by roughly 80% from its 1.5 trillion KRW peak at the end of 2024.

While the broader market faced systemic contraction, BDACS bucked the trend by securing a robust 80 billion KRW in AUC, anchored by institutional Bitcoin (BTC) inflows, firmly cementing its status as the premier counterparty and the leading ‘blue chip’ of the domestic Web3 infrastructure sector.

Catalyst: Prime Custody Solution

The catalyst behind this market-leading growth is BDACS’s proprietary ‘Prime Custody Solution’. Shifting away from legacy passive storage, the Prime Custody Solution functions as an integrated infrastructure that flexibly manages and custodies digital assets tailored to the complex corporate structures and capital allocation strategies of enterprise clients. This architecture empowers institutions to deploy an optimized, compliant custody framework aligned with their specific asset profiles and operational goals, ensuring secure management of diverse digital asset classes.

“In a volatile digital asset environment, institutional allocators demand a comprehensive mix of asset safety, operational agility, and infrastructure resilience,” said Harry Ryoo, CEO of BDACS. “By delivering an infrastructure optimized for sophisticated institutional strategies, BDACS has emerged as the most trusted institutional custodian in the region.”

Cryptographic Security & UX

Recently, the global and domestic digital asset custody landscape has seen a heightened emphasis on asset mobility and strict security management protocols, following high-profile mass asset migrations at legacy providers. Consequently, institutional interest has pivoted sharply toward enterprise-grade UX, rigorous internal controls, and sophisticated risk management capabilities.

To address this, BDACS has engineered a financial institution-grade security framework fortified by multi-signature approval protocols, distributed cryptographic storage architectures, and stringent internal compliance controls. By seamlessly merging hot and cold wallet infrastructure with an intuitive enterprise UX, BDACS enables corporate clients to manage on-chain liquidity with maximum efficiency. This fusion of institutional stability and operational seamlessness remains the primary driver behind the surge in corporate onboarding and AUC expansion.

Vision: Global Expansion Strategy

“Moving forward, competitiveness in the institutional custody market will transcend simple asset size; it will be defined by institutional trust, operational flexibility, and global on-chain connectivity,” CEO Harry Ryoo emphasized. “As corporate demand scales, BDACS will lock in its position as South Korea’s No. 1 custodian while bridging local infrastructure to the global Web3 ecosystem.”

Capitalizing on its domestic dominance, BDACS is rapidly executing its global expansion strategy, onboarding institutional clients across key markets including the United States and Japan. Driven by the accelerating institutionalization of the corporate digital asset market, BDACS continues to aggressively scale its institutional client base, widening its lead as the absolute market leader.