Institutional-grade Service Provider for Digital Assets
Be part of the revolution in financial infrastructure
Enabling native access to digital assets for institutions by consulting and onboarding to our institutional-grade platform for staking, restaking and Bitcoin yield generation, integrating with third-party custody solutions.
PRODUCT FEATURES
Staking
Bitcoin Yield
Our Mission
Empower institutions in global digital asset infrastructure inversion
At Brick Towers, our mission is to position ourselves as a leading, global institutional-grade infrastructure provider within the digital asset universe. Leveraging distributed ledger technology, we offer our clients diverse opportunities to actively participate and earn native rewards in the rapidly emerging digital asset landscape.
Our client-focused approach ensures full control remains with the customer, offering services that require no custodian or fiduciary roles from us, but rather, showcases us as a trusted technology provider, upholding a prudent mindset at all times.
Rooted in the belief that Bitcoin and other major internet-native digital assets like Ether are the future digital gold and oil, we strive to offer our institutional clients the necessary infrastructure to secure their part in this industry’s growth. We envision the internet-native transfer of money and value leading to an infrastructure inversion in the coming years, and our mission is to guide our clients through this transformative journey.
about us
Our Values
Brick Towers represents the strong foundation and consistent growth of a well-designed structure. Our name highlights the careful process of building a towering success brick by brick, emphasizing our dedication to fostering long-term achievements, step by step.
Rooted in over a decade of expertise in digital platform engineering and integration, our conviction is a testament to our extensive collaboration with a variety of institutional clients. Our experience with banks, insurance, asset managers and regulators has formed our skills and deepened our understanding of the industry. Like the persevering bricks of a tower, our knowledge and partnerships form the solid foundation and reliable growth we consistently deliver.
Transparency
At Brick Towers, we believe in the power of open communication. By keeping our team and clients well-informed about our strategies and initiatives, we instill a sense of trust and reliability.
Dedication
We uphold professional excellence in everything that we do and love what we do and take pride in our work. We are exited to be innovators in our field.
Empowerment
We believe in the power of collaboration between our team, our clients and our partners. Thus, with careful selection of our employees, we ensure that the synergy of our collaborations consistently yields outcomes greater than the sum of individual efforts.
Craftsmanship
In a world where technology is the driving force behind progress and innovation, technical excellence serves as the cornerstone of our collective advancement. We uphold the highest standards in security and usability, and consider native technologies first.
Brick Towers Core Team
«A team with superpowers is a team with a joint past
and a common goal for the future»
The in-depth experience in traditional investment management combined with the extensive knowledge of modern Web3 technology provides a profound base to tackle the challenges in decentralized financial infrastructure.
Ralph Hofacker
Co-Founder & Co-CEO
Christian Dick
Co-Founder & Co-CEO
Sergey Kisels
Co-Founder & CTO
Imants Firsts
Co-Founder & CISO
Advisory Board
«Guiding the future with experience, insight, and vision.»
Brick Towers is backed by a strong Advisory Board of highly respected thought leaders in financial products, technology, digital transformation and related risks.
Jörg Behrens
Risk Management & Governance
A seasoned risk management expert with extensive experience in financial regulation and compliance. As former EY Partner, founder and Managing Partner of another Consultancy firm and as non-executive director of boards of listed financial services firms, Jörg has shaped risk management frameworks for global institutions, bringing a strong governance and risk management perspective to Brick Towers.
Demelza Hays
Digital Assets & Research
Demelza is an economist and researcher specializing in cryptocurrencies and digital assets, as well as a Portfolio Manager at Zeltner & Co. She previously led the research team at Cointelegraph and has been recognized in Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in Finance. With a PhD specializing in crypto finance, Demelza advises Brick Towers on the intersection of Bitcoin, monetary economics, and wealth preservation.
Matthias Kröner
FinTech & Banking Innovation
Matthias co-founded Fidor Bank, one of the earliest digital-first banks integrating cryptocurrencies. His strategic leadership in banking innovation and financial technology helps Brick Towers shape its go-to-market strategies, as well as customer engagement and retention.
Christian Badertscher
Cardano & ZK Technology
Christian is a leading researcher in blockchain consensus and zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs. He has been key in advancing Cardano’s consensus mechanism at IOG, focusing on scalability and privacy-enhancing blockchain solutions. Christian helps Brick Towers to shape the next-generation cooperative bank urble from a blockchain security and application perspective.
Christian Decker
Bitcoin & Lightning Network
A pioneer and renowned expert in Bitcoin core and Lightning Network development, Christian has played a pivotal role in scaling Bitcoin’s infrastructure. As one of the world’s foremost blockchain engineers at Blockstream, his expertise supports Brick Towers in leveraging Bitcoin’s full technological potential.
Customers
Foundations and Associations
Foundations and DAOs want to grow their treasury money safely to fund more projects, but finding a simple, low-risk way to do this is hard.
Brick Towers helps Foundations and DAOs safely grow their money through staking, so they can focus on their main work.
Banks and Asset Allocators
Banks and asset allocators aim for profitable asset management but have concerns with staking complexity, security, compliance, and regulatory requirements.
Brick Towers streamlines staking, secures assets, reports rewards, and mitigates regulatory issues, aiding institutions in diversifying their investments with confidence.
Custody Service Providers
Custody Service Providers safeguard digital assets in a non-custodial manner and need to provide an easy way for their users to make their assets productive
Brick Towers offers an SDK to integrate staking services natively which allows the custody service provider to broaden their service range and make their customers happy
Web3 Wallets
Offering native staking, especially for Ethereum’s 32 ETH batches, presents a financial barrier to user and excludes them from receiving risk minimized staking rewards.
Brick Towers‘ API enables pooled staking and withdrawals in wallets based on smart contracts, breaking these barriers and promoting user retention through a new passive income stream.
Customer Story
Pillar Project Foundation – Institutional-Grade Staking of Ethereum
Block 15’134’082
Time staked
4.86%
Rewards API in Ether
The Merge
Major Protocol Update I
Shapella
Major Protocol Event II
Treasury Use Case
Incorporated in 2017 and based in Zug (Switzerland), Pillar Project Foundation is the corporate entity that coordinates the creation of the Pillar wallet and champions its adoption.
The large majority of the Foundation treasury is kept in Ether and serves for future investments. Working with Brick Towers, the Foundation earns rewards on otherwise idle Ether, increasing the impact it can achieve in the future.
“Partnering with Brick Towers allowed us to make our Foundation Treasury productive, a move that aligns perfectly with our Pillar ethos of safeguarding and contributing to the growth of decentralized networks. Brick Towers’ Staking-as-a-service offering not only enabled us to secure the network, but also to earn attractive rewards in doing so!”
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Disclaimer
Please be aware that the rewards rates for staking are not centrally controlled by a specific party but governed by the rules of the relevant open-source code of the specific Proof-of-Stake blockchain protocol one is staking with. While the rewards rate in general is pre-determined through active participation of validators, rewards are only guaranteed if they adhere to the protocol’s rules by properly proposing new blocks and, in some cases, attesting to the work of other validators on the network.
It is crucial to fully comprehend the risks associated with staking before engaging in any staking activities. Some can be managed by Brick Towers, some are inherent in the underlying blockchain protocol and lastly some that lie with the institution staking with Brick Towers.
Slashing as penalty occurs if validators violate the rules of the blockchain protocol, whether intentional or accidental, by e.g. double-signing or being offline for any period of time and therefore not available to fulfill its duty to take part in the consensus process for the network. Such behaviour results in penalties that may lead to the loss of a portion of the staked principal. However, at Brick Towers we design our platform to minimize slashing penalties and upon request can provide insurance for slashing to cover this risk.
Further, the process of staking to participate in the decentralization and security of the underlying network which is compensated by rewards, and the withdrawal of staked assets takes variable amounts of time, depending on how many others are exiting or by specific rules governing the exiting and withdrawal process within the blockchain protocol. During such time, the assets are not liquid, i.e. they cannot be exchanged for another digital asset or fiat currency.
Finally, Brick Towers is non-custodial and does not control staked assets when providing its services. Custody and control of the assets remain with its clients. If the keys to the staked assets are lost, Brick Towers cannot recover them. However, we will provide best advise and work with other ecosystem partners to mitigate such a situation.