MPCH
8 known investors
MPCH offers a platform for cryptographic key governance and operational oversight, providing real-time client monitoring, multi-party approval workflows, and immutable audit trails. It gives organizations visibility into keys, ledgers, processes, and logs from a single interface.
Also known as MPCH.IO Labs · MPCH.IO Labs, Inc.
Founders & leadership
Investors · 8
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Company profile
researched Aug 2026MPCH is a cryptographic infrastructure company that governs signing authority across physical and digital layers, combining purpose-built secure facilities, hardware-backed signing and software-defined policy governance in a single architecture. Its product set includes Stronghold KMS, a hardware-backed, multi-site key management and signing platform with offline root generation, HSM execution, policy-enforced signing workflows and institutional key lifecycle management; Stronghold-DR, a policy-governed offline recovery service run from geographically separated, fully air-gapped MPCH-controlled facilities with biometric access controls and a zero-knowledge operational mode; and MPCH Vault Services, under which the company designs, builds and operates dedicated cryptographic storage sites and offers the same hardened network, SOC and monitoring stack as a managed service, including 24/7 threat monitoring, SIEM with 365-day log retention, chain-of-custody logging and RF-shielded cold storage.
The company also operates regulated blockchain infrastructure, running MPC signing and validator operations across permissioned networks, including Canton super validators and a Financial Infrastructure Oracle, NEAR validators and institutional node operations, and hosted customer-owned HSM environments. A separate AI governance line comprises ATLAS, described as an AI Authorization Control Plane that applies constitutional rules to every autonomous request before execution, validates outputs afterward and produces signed audit trails, and APEX, a finance-specific authority layer for tokenized issuance, treasury and agentic markets; both are backed by Stronghold KMS. MPCH states it also conducts cryptographic research against quantum threats with specialist labs.
An external asset profile describes the entity MPCH.IO Labs, Inc. as a multi-party computation technology company and product and venture lab whose MPC6 engine is a configurable operating system for self-managing assets, wallets and workflow policies, with a related product, Fraction, intended to bring MPC6 to traditional and crypto-native institutions under regulatory and risk-management requirements.
Founding story
Founder and CEO Miles Parry spent seventeen years in UK government physical and cyber intelligence and security before entering crypto in 2011. In 2015 he founded the custody firm Vo1t, which was acquired by Genesis (DCG) in 2020, and he founded MPCH in 2021.
Business model
MPCH sells cryptographic key governance infrastructure and operated security services to institutions: licensed platform products (Stronghold KMS, Stronghold-DR, ATLAS and APEX), validator and node operations on regulated blockchain networks, hosting of customer-owned HSM environments, and managed physical and network security through purpose-built vault facilities and a 24/7 SOC. Its defense division, Ti22, is described as holding active contracts.
Traction
MPCH reports production environments across regulated finance, blockchain infrastructure and government and defense, 104 validators secured including 7 super validators, roughly 25% of the Canton super validator network, active contracts through its Ti22 defense division, and no breaches. It names Visa, Broadridge, Consensys, New York Life, Blockdaemon, NEAR Foundation, Canton Network, DTCC and the Global Synchronizer Foundation as institutional partners.
Latest developments
MPCH is extending its authority architecture beyond digital assets into AI governance through ATLAS, a cross-sector AI Authorization Control Plane, and APEX, its finance-specific programmable authority layer for tokenized issuance, treasury and agentic markets, alongside rapid-prototype agentic security programs and cryptographic research against quantum threats conducted with specialist labs.
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Market position
MPCH positions itself as the founding infrastructure provider to Canton, stating it runs roughly 25% of the Canton super validator network and is the only provider offering hot and cold key management at the ledger level. It lists institutional partners including Visa, Broadridge, Consensys, New York Life, Blockdaemon, NEAR Foundation, Canton Network, DTCC and the Global Synchronizer Foundation, and reports institutional backers including OAK HC/FT, RIT Capital Partners, Animoca, Liberty City Ventures and Polygon.
The company frames signing authority as a physical as well as a digital problem, controlling the stack from silicon and key generation through MPCH-operated air-gapped facilities to the policies governing each operation, rather than supplying software alone. It cites hot and cold key management at the ledger level for Canton, independently validated architecture and vault facilities, a filed patent portfolio, and a stated record of zero breaches.
Technology
Hardware-backed cryptography built on offline root key generation and HSM execution, multi-party computation signing, air-gapped and RF-shielded (Faraday) cold storage, biometric multi-factor physical access control, and policy engines that enforce governance and approval workflows over signing operations. Supporting systems include MPCH Data Fusion for real-time security and validator oversight, SIEM with 365-day log retention, and immutable chain-of-custody audit logging. The company reports 13 patent families filed and an architecture and vault facilities validated by NCC Group, and lists ISO 27001, SOC 2 and NIST CSF compliance frameworks.
Go-to-market
Institutional digital asset platforms, custodians, regulated financial institutions and settlement platforms, blockchain networks and validator operators, and government, defense, intelligence and sovereign clients.
Geography
An external asset profile places MPCH.IO Labs, Inc. in London, England, UK. The company describes geographically separated MPCH-operated storage sites and global production infrastructure, with defense work referencing the US Department of War.
History
MPCH's own site gives a 2021 founding for building governed signing and recovery infrastructure; an external asset profile lists the entity MPCH.IO Labs, Inc. as established in 2022 in London and reports a September 2022 Series A. The company later expanded from key management into operated vault facilities, regulated blockchain validator infrastructure, a defense division (Ti22), and AI governance products (ATLAS and APEX).
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Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Timeline · 4
launches, deals, and filingsMPCH states it serves as founding infrastructure provider to Canton and operates roughly 25% of the Canton super validator network, offering hot and cold key management at the ledger level.
MPCH introduced ATLAS, an AI authorization control plane enforcing pre-execution rules, post-execution validation and signed audit trails, and APEX, a finance-specific authority layer for tokenized issuance, treasury and agentic markets, both backed by Stronghold KMS.
MPCH.IO Labs, Inc. raised USD 40 million in Series A funding led by Liberty City Ventures, with participation from Animoca Brands, Finality Capital Partners and Global Coin Research, to fund continued development and deployment of its Fraction product.
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The company stated it intended to launch Fraction, which brings its MPC6 engine into the crypto space for traditional and crypto-native institutions, in the fourth quarter of 2022.
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In the news
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Frequently asked questions
- What does MPCH do?
- MPCH builds hardware-backed key management, offline recovery and signing-governance infrastructure for institutions, validators and defense.
- Who founded MPCH?
- MPCH was founded by Miles Parry.
- Who are MPCH's investors?
- MPCH's investors include Liberty City Ventures, Oak HC/FT, Polygon, RIT Capital Partners, Borderless Venture, Mantis Capital.