Engineering defense-in-depth custody combining multi-party threshold cryptography with dedicated physical hardware security modules.
Pure software MPC leaves key shares vulnerable to host OS memory scraping, while pure HSM architecture can introduce single-point-of-compromise risks. AssetHSM combines both: MPC key shards are held exclusively within hardware enclaves across geographically isolated datacenters, requiring mathematical consensus before signing.
Utilizing zero-knowledge proofs during the MPC-CMP roundtrips, each node verifies that counterparties act honestly according to protocol rules without revealing their local shard shares, rendering insider collusion mathematically impossible.