[ SHORT ANSWER ]
Fireblocks is the right answer for institutional custody: MPC-CMP across a large network, exchange and counterparty connectivity, insurance, and the compliance posture funds and banks require. 1Claw is not competing for that mandate. Choose 1Claw when the signer is an autonomous agent, the amounts are operational rather than treasury-scale, and you want guardrails, simulation, and approval routing without an enterprise onboarding.
The practical difference is who the signer is. Fireblocks is built for institutions where humans and desks initiate transfers under policy. 1Claw is built for software agents that initiate transactions continuously, where the controls have to be machine-evaluable per call — allowlists, per-chain daily budgets, simulation, and automatic escalation to a human when a transaction matches an approval policy.
[ COMPARISON ]
1Claw vs Fireblocks
Capability by capability. A dash means partial or qualified support — read the note.
[ WHEN TO USE ]
Which one is right for you
Most of these are not either/or. Where the competitor is the better answer, we say so.
Use Fireblocks when
- You are custodying institutional balances and need insurance and regulated custody.
- Exchange, OTC, and counterparty connectivity is core to the workflow.
- Your compliance function requires a vendor already accepted in that category.
Use 1Claw when
- Autonomous agents sign operational transactions continuously.
- You want machine-evaluable guardrails per call rather than desk-level policy.
- You need to start today without an enterprise procurement cycle.
[ MIGRATION ]
Moving over in three steps
Most teams keep Fireblocks for what it is good at and add 1Claw for the agent layer.
- 1Keep treasury balances in Fireblocks — this is not a custody replacement.
- 2Provision per-agent signing keys in 1Claw funded with operational amounts only.
- 3Attach allowlists, per-chain daily budgets, and an approval policy for anything above threshold.
[ FAQ ]
Common questions
Is 1Claw a custodian?
No. 1Claw is key infrastructure and agent governance, not a regulated custodian, and it carries no custody insurance. Do not put institutional treasury balances behind it on the assumption that it is.
Can agents draw from a Fireblocks vault?
The common pattern is to keep the bulk in Fireblocks and fund a small 1Claw-held operational balance that agents spend under guardrails, so the agent's blast radius is bounded by the balance itself.
Does 1Claw support MPC?
Yes — 2-of-2 client custody and 2-of-3 Shamir splitting across multiple HSM providers. That is a different guarantee from Fireblocks MPC-CMP with insurance.
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[ FREE TIER ] 3 vaults · 50 secrets · 2 agents · 100 signatures/mo
Give agents access, not copies
Store the credential once, scope it per agent, and let the agent act without ever holding it.