Brink's Secure Logistics for Digital Assets

Your digital assets live on a blockchain, but the hardware devices and key backups that control them still need a physical home. Brink’s protects those components with offline cold storage, armored transport, and a documented chain of custody, giving the physical side of your business the same protection you’ve built for the digital side.

Your keys. Your custody model. Our physical security. A protection layer that fits inside the control framework you already have.

153+ countries in the Brink's Global Services network

78 bonded warehouse locations in free trade zones

165+ years of secure logistics experience 

One chain of custody from pickup to final delivery

How Brink's protects the physical side of digital assets

Cybersecurity protects what happens on the network. Here’s how Brink’s protects the devices and backup materials that drive  it, from collection to delivery:

1. Approved items are collected at your door

Brink's teams pick up devices and backup materials directly from your location, using preapproved packaging and handling procedures your team agrees with in advance.

2. Every transfer stays under Brink's chain of custody

Trained crews, armored vehicles, and secure air and road networks handle each movement domestically and on approved international routes, so nothing travels through standard shipping channels.

3. Items are held in controlled cold storage

Your approved components go into secure Brink’s facilities and are held offline in environments configured around your requirements and local capability.

4. Access follows your rules

Before anything leaves storage, Brink’s checks the request against the authorized users, approvals, and identity verification steps your team defines.

5. Retrieval and delivery follow agreed handoff procedures

When an item needs to move, Brink's verifies the request and delivers it under the same chain of custody that protected it in storage.

6. Every movement is documented

Brink’s logs each collection, transfer, storage, retrieval, and delivery event, so your compliance and audit teams can trace an item’s full history.

In digital-asset security, the keys are the target

Most digital-asset security conversations center on software, but attackers keep going after the same thing: the keys. In the first half of 2026, criminals stole more than $30 million from crypto holders through home invasions, kidnappings, and hostage situations — already more than half of 2025’s record $58 million. When those keys or the devices and backups that hold them are kept offline, their physical protection becomes part of your security model whether you plan for it or not.
 
Source: Chainalysis

What physical custody looks like without a dedicated partner

Key backups end up in an office safe, not a secure facility

Without dedicated storage, hardware devices and backup materials often sit in a drawer or a safe your own team manages, with no independent access controls or record of who opened it.

Device transfers go by courier, not under chain of custody

Moving a device between offices, signers, or jurisdictions often means a standard courier or an employee’s carry-on, with no way to confirm who handled it along the way.

Audit requests turn into a paper chase, not a report

When auditors ask where a device has been and who accessed it, the answer is scattered across emails and spreadsheets instead of a single documented record.

What changes when Brink's protects your physical custody layer

Key backups move into secure storage

Approved devices and backup materials go into secure physical cold custody configured around your agreed requirements and local capability, so nobody on your team is guarding a safe in the back office.

Transfers stay under one chain of custody

Brink’s moves devices by secured and armored transport across air and road networks, domestically and cross-border on approved routes, instead of handing them to a courier or packing them in someone’s carry-on.

Audit requests get a real record

Brink’s documents every collection, transfer, storage, retrieval, and delivery event, so you have records that support oversight, reconciliation, and audit needs instead of digging through emails.

Access matches the rules you’ve set

Access arrangements align with your approved users, authorization rules, and operating procedures, so getting an item out of storage takes the same sign-off as anything else in your control framework.

No single person controls both access and movement

Brink’s role and process design can support separation of responsibility where agreed, so the people who approve access aren’t the same people who move the item.

You always know what’s stored and what’s moving

Brink’s reports on and reconciles approved stored items and their movements, so your inventory matches what’s actually in storage and in transit.

One partner for the physical layer of your custody model

Brink's doesn't replace your digital custodian, wallet provider, or cybersecurity platform. We offer one relationship that takes care of collection, armored transport, cold storage, and delivery for the approved components in your control framework. Dedicated commercial and operational contacts know your account in every market where you operate.
 
Pricing depends on your devices, jurisdictions, and access model, so you’re only paying for what your custody setup needs. Schedule a chat to get a personalized quote.

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Organizations that rely on Brink’s digital asset logistics

Brink's digital asset logistics are built for organizations that hold meaningful value in digital assets and need the physical side of custody to meet the same standard as the digital side.

Holding keys on behalf of clients means the offline components need physical protection that matches the security of the platform itself.
Adding digital assets to an existing custody business requires the same chain-of-custody standards already applied to cash and valuables.
Tokenizing real-world assets ties digital records to physical infrastructure that needs documented storage and transfers.
Network operations run on hardware that has to move between sites without leaving its chain of custody.
Large holdings controlled by multiple signers require controlled storage and release procedures for every hardware device and backup.

More Brink's solutions to explore

Brink’s digital asset logistics are part of a wider set of Brink’s Global Services built for valuable and sensitive goods.

Precious Metals

End-to-end protection for precious metals, backed by specialized industry knowledge and consistent service.

Luxury

Secure, discreet logistics for luxury maisons, from international transport and customs clearance to events and final-mile delivery.

Diamonds and Jewelry

Secure transport and storage that moves diamonds and jewelry from mine to market.

Electronics

Tailored logistics that protect high-value electronics and the brands behind them.

Pharmaceuticals

CEIV Pharma-certified transport and storage for temperature-sensitive, regulated shipments that can't afford a break in chain of custody.

Frequently Asked Questions

No, Brink’s isn’t a digital-asset custodian, wallet provider, or cybersecurity platform. Brink’s provides secure physical storage and logistics for the devices and backup materials in your custody model, and works alongside the custodian and platforms you already use.

Brink’s can store approved hardware devices, key backup materials, and other physical components used in your digital-asset control model. Before any item is accepted, the scope goes through technical, legal, compliance, and operational review, so you know exactly what’s covered.

Yes, Brink’s can move digital-asset devices across borders on approved routes. Each international route first goes through a regulatory, customs, security, and technical assessment, and your account team will confirm which routes are available for your locations.

Access to stored items follows procedures your team defines with Brink’s. Depending on local capability, those procedures can include approved user lists, authorization rules, and identity verification steps before anything is released.

No, Brink’s doesn’t provide wallet or key-management technology. Brink’s focuses on the physical side, with controlled storage environments and secure logistics that work around the technology model you’ve already chosen.

Yes, Brink’s can retrieve stored items and deliver them securely when you request it. Each retrieval follows the verification and handoff procedures you’ve agreed to, so an item only leaves storage when the right people approve it.
Brink’s reporting can cover inventory, collection, movement, storage, retrieval, and delivery events. The records available to you depend on which services you implement.
No, digital-asset services are not available in every location. Availability depends on jurisdiction, regulation, compliance approval, technical scope, and local operating capability, and a Brink’s specialist can confirm what’s available where you operate.

Add physical resilience to your digital-asset security

Talk to a Brink's specialist about the devices, access model, jurisdictions, and operating requirements involved. We'll assess how secure logistics and controlled storage can strengthen your wider custody framework.

Call 804-289-9600 to contact a Brink's specialist today.

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