Fireblocks expands security, launches Agentic Payments Suite

Fireblocks announced a February 2026 expansion with Thales and introduced an Agentic Payments Suite in 2026. The company serves more than 2,400 organizations, including over 80 banks, and supports more than 150 blockchains.

The February agreement adds hardware security module (HSM) integration to Fireblocks’ multi-party computation (MPC) architecture. Fireblocks says the integration is intended to strengthen controls for custody, trading, tokenization and on-chain settlement used by banks and asset managers.

The Agentic Payments Suite enables AI-driven payment workflows that allow automated agents to initiate transactions within pre-set authorization and compliance rules. Fireblocks targets the product at payment service providers and fintechs that handle high-volume stablecoin flows.

Fireblocks’ security model uses MPC to split private key material across multiple parties and require threshold approvals to sign transactions. The company says the design prevents any single person, device or server from moving client assets alone.

The platform offers custody, a payments engine for stablecoin orchestration, tokenization tools, wallet-as-a-service and treasury management through a single interface. Fireblocks also operates the Fireblocks Network, which links more than 2,500 counterparties with pre-established MPC-secured channels.

Company figures cite more than 550 million wallets created and transactions secured worth trillions of dollars. Fireblocks has raised about $1.04 billion to date, including a $550 million Series E in January 2022 that valued the company at $8 billion.

Clients named by Fireblocks include BNY Mellon, ABN AMRO, Revolut and Bridge. ABN AMRO used Fireblocks for a tokenized bond issuance covering token creation, issuance and custody. Bridge reported cutting bulk stablecoin settlement times from over 12 hours to under 90 minutes while scaling to millions of transactions. Revolut uses Fireblocks infrastructure for its crypto operations and to scale a US bank-backed stablecoin to tens of millions of users.

On compliance, Fireblocks lists SOC 2 certification, a configurable policy engine, transaction monitoring and global restriction enforcement. The policy engine enforces authorization rules at the infrastructure layer so high-volume payment flows can run within defined regulatory boundaries without per-transaction manual approval. Company executives have pointed to federal rulemaking on stablecoins as increasing demand for embedded compliance controls.

Some potential customers face trade-offs. Fireblocks’ enterprise pricing and onboarding process can be barriers for early-stage fintechs and developer-led teams that prefer self-serve sandboxes. Firms seeking white-label B2B2C embedding with minimal visibility of the infrastructure may consider providers with broader state licensing or different go-to-market models.

Competitors cited include Circle, Paxos, Crossmint and Zero Hash, which lead in specific areas such as USDC distribution, white-label issuance aligned with new regulatory rules, multi-chain wallet breadth and state money-transmitter coverage.

Fireblocks was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in New York.