The bank is an example of the kind of relatively new banking institution that has sought to carve a path in the field of digital assets.

AMINA Bank, a Switzerland-headquartered digital assets specialist firm, this week said it has become the first bank to support Canton Coin, a native token of Canton Network. AMINA is offering custody and trading services to clients.

Canton Network is a public blockchain built for capital markets and an example of developments in digital ledger technology that have affected part of the banking and wealth management ecosystem.

Regulated by FINMA – the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority of Switzerland – AMINA said in a statement that its Canton Coin services will help ease friction for professional investors and others running tokenization and settlement workflows. 

Canton has gained significant institutional momentum in recent months, attracting trade finance and decentralised finance organisations, including the DTCC, Visa, and BitGo, that are building next-generation settlement, tokenization, custody, and collateral workflows on the network. 

“Canton Network represents something we are seeing more broadly in digital assets: infrastructure that has been purpose-built for regulated institutions, not retrofitted,” Myles Harrison, chief product officer at AMINA, said. “By making Canton Coin available for custody and trading, AMINA is providing clients, whether they are Super Validators or investors seeking exposure to Canton Network's growth, with the regulated access they need to engage with this ecosystem. Making Canton Coin available is a deliberate step to ensure our clients have regulated access to the infrastructure underpinning institutional finance’s next chapter.”

Founded in April 2018 and established in Zug (Switzerland), AMINA and its related entities have bases in Abu Dhabi, Austria, and Hong Kong, and a variety of licences in these jurisdictions. Its most recent licence was in 2025, when it received a CASP licence from Austria’s Financial Market Authority under the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCAR) framework. In 2023, the bank won the European WealthBriefing Award in the Digital Assets Solution, Fund Manager category. Last year, This news service interviewed AMINA in Hong Kong about developments in the city, and further afield.