The EY-Parthenon and Coinbase 2026 Institutional Digital Asset Survey, which polled more than 350 institutional investors globally, identified lack of internal expertise as one of the top three concerns rising year-over-year among institutions active in digital assets, alongside regulatory uncertainty and custody security.

And yet institutions are not slowing down: 73% of survey respondents plan to increase their digital asset allocations in 2026. But they are doing so while acknowledging a growing gap between what their teams currently know and what operating in this environment demands of them.

That gap has consequences. Financial institutions and asset managers entering digital assets face a threat environment that traditional cybersecurity training was never designed to address. Their security and operations teams understand cybersecurity. They understand custody. What they are missing is the specific, operational knowledge to recognize and respond to onchain threat vectors before those losses land.

Today we are introducing the Hypernative Digital Asset Defense Series: a four-session training program built to close that gap, developed from our experience protecting 350+ organizations across the digital asset ecosystem.
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The Knowledge Gap That Attackers Exploit

In setting up deployments across 350+ customer engagements, a consistent pattern emerges. Security capability is rarely the problem. Onchain-specific knowledge is. Their teams have not been trained on the threat vectors unique to this environment: how "pre-crime" signals work in smart contract exploits, how address poisoning attacks operate, how mint and burn controllers can be compromised, or how to interpret liquidity pool toxicity in a compliance context.

That knowledge gap does not stay theoretical for long. The organizations that experience incidents most often are not the ones with weak technology. They are the ones whose teams did not know what to watch for, or did not know how to act when the signals arrived.

The Digital Asset Defense Series is designed to change that.

‍Want to see this gap mapped in detail? Join Hypernative's upcoming webinar, Digital Asset Risk for Traditional Finance: How Your Existing Controls Leave You Exposed, where our team of security experts will walk through how familiar financial risks resurface in unfamiliar forms onchain, and what the right controls actually look like. Can't make it live? Register anyway and we will share the recording.
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Four Training Sessions, Covering the Full Risk Landscape

The series consists of four highly focused, 1.5-hour virtual sessions tailored to your internal structure and technical stack, each led by Hypernative security researchers and practitioners.

The curriculum covers four distinct areas of institutional onchain security practice:

• Onchain Detection, Response & Incident Readiness: covers how to identify pre-crime signals before exploits execute, automate containment, and build detection logic specific to your proprietary flows.
• Fraud Management & Transaction Screening: addresses real-world fraud case studies and behavioral screening based on address reputation, KYT risk scores, and pool toxicity.
• Operational Wallet Pre-Transaction Security: focuses on securing high-value custody flows with pre-transaction simulation and policy-driven automation to prevent zero-day exploits and other risks before they’re committed onchain.
• Custom Risk Deep Dive: a dedicated session aligned to your institution's most pressing use cases, with topics spanning stablecoin security, asset tokenization, trading and DeFi risk, and chain and ecosystem safety.
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Who This Is For

Designed around the teams within financial institutions and asset managers that are operationally responsible for digital asset security, each session maps directly to specific functional roles.

• Security operations (SOC) teams responsible for monitoring, detecting, and responding to onchain threats and incidents in real time.
• Compliance and AML teams running transaction screening, Know Your Transaction (KYT) programs, and sanctions monitoring against digital asset counterparties.
• Custody and operations teams managing high-value wallet flows, transaction approvals, and internal access controls.
• Risk management professionals responsible for understanding and modeling the onchain threat vectors that affect their institution's digital asset exposure.
• Technology and engineering leaders overseeing integration of onchain security tooling with existing SIEM, SOC, and compliance infrastructure.
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What Your Teams Walk Away With

The series is designed to deliver immediate, practical value. Every session produces:

• Hands-on assignments and exercises to apply concepts directly to your internal watchlists and workflows.
• Custom agent blueprints and monitoring flow templates specific to your proprietary smart contracts, products, or treasury infrastructure.
• Intensive Q&A with direct access to Hypernative's product team, security experts, and solution engineers.
• Foundational security knowledge and best practices drawn from Hypernative's experience across 350+ institutional deployments, giving your teams a shared operational vocabulary for the onchain threat environment.
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The program is modeled after our engagements with leading global financial institutions and translates complex onchain data into actionable, team-specific defense strategies and operational best practices.

Schedule the Series

If your institution is operating in digital assets and you want your teams equipped with institutional-grade onchain security knowledge, get in touch with our expert team to discuss the Digital Asset Defense Series today.

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