WealthArc adds crypto to wealth data stack as MiCA shakeout bites

Regulatory pressure from MiCA and the FCA is forcing wealth managers to treat crypto with the same rigour as traditional assets.

By Disrupts Editorial Team Fri, 24 July 2026

A long corridor in a data center is lined with dark server racks displaying glowing blue and green indicator lights, leading to a glass-partitioned office space with desks and computers, brightly lit by overhead ceiling panels.

WealthArc, the Swiss data infrastructure provider for wealth managers and family offices, has extended its platform to cover crypto assets as a fully supported asset class, integrating custody feeds, pricing data, and a dedicated staking-income transaction type alongside traditional holdings. The timing is deliberate: the move lands in the same week that the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation enforced its licensing deadline, cutting the field of eligible crypto-service providers from nearly 2,000 firms down to just 244.

That shakeout is not a minor compliance event. When exchanges lose their operating licence, client assets move, and the wealth managers who hold those clients suddenly need to reconcile portfolios that span both traditional custodians and newly displaced digital-asset positions. Firms without the infrastructure to do that in real time are exposed.

Crypto data complexity meets institutional reporting standards

The core technical challenge WealthArc is addressing is structural. Crypto positions do not behave like equities or bonds: they live across multiple wallets with blockchain-level address tracking, and staking income does not settle against a cash account the way a dividend does. WealthArc's new capability models crypto as a distinct asset class, expressing positions in native token quantities with valuations in a fiduciary currency, and introduces a dedicated Staking Rewards transaction type that mirrors the auditable structure already applied to interest and dividend income.

The infrastructure integrates custody data from three digital-asset custodians: Anchorage Digital, BitGo, and Tetra Trust. These sit within the same data grid that WealthArc already runs across more than 170 institutions globally. Pricing and market data for over 17,000 digital assets is sourced through a direct CoinGecko integration, covering everything from Bitcoin and Ethereum through to niche tokens and stablecoins.

Radomir Mastalerz, CTO of WealthArc, framed the goal plainly: "Wealth managers should be able to present a complete portfolio view to every client, whether those clients hold equities, bonds, or Bitcoin. That is what this infrastructure makes possible: data across every asset class that you can actually act on."

The company cites figures suggesting 73% of institutions plan to increase crypto allocations this year, and references a BlackRock forecast placing digital assets as a US$500 million revenue opportunity within five years. Both figures should be read as directional indicators rather than verified projections, but they point to an institutional adoption curve that is outpacing the reporting infrastructure around it.

Regulatory convergence as a structural forcing function

The deeper story here sits at the intersection of fintech infrastructure, crypto regulation, and wealth management. MiCA's licensing deadline is the first hard proof point that European regulators intend to treat crypto with the same supervisory seriousness as securities markets. In parallel, the UK's Financial Conduct Authority published its final cryptoasset regime rules in the same week, aligning the two largest European financial centres on a trajectory toward full regulatory parity between digital and traditional assets.

For wealth managers, that convergence creates a compliance obligation that goes beyond client service quality: it becomes an audit risk. A firm that cannot demonstrate the same reporting transparency for a client's Bitcoin holdings as it can for their equity portfolio will face increasing scrutiny as regulators move from licensing exchanges to scrutinising the advisers that distribute digital assets to end investors.

This is where infrastructure providers like WealthArc sit in the broader capital-allocation picture. The move toward regulated crypto markets is attracting institutional capital that has historically waited on the regulatory sidelines. As that capital flows in, the back-office and data layer required to support it becomes a competitive moat for the wealth management platforms that have built it, and a structural liability for those that have not. The next pressure point is likely to be reporting standards: if MiCA follows the securities model, standardised crypto reporting templates for wealth managers could follow within the next regulatory cycle.