Use Case 01
Treasury, Security & Vendor Support
A crypto business has significant assets distributed across banks, custodians, exchanges, OTC relationships, liquidity providers and operational wallets. The challenge is building a treasury structure that is secure, resilient and commercially efficient.
The challenge
- Determining where assets should be held and how funds should move
- Balancing operational liquidity with reserve or longer-term balances
- Managing counterparty concentration and exposure
- Establishing access, approval and transaction controls
- Selecting the right banking, custody, exchange and liquidity providers
- Understanding whether vendor pricing and contractual terms are appropriate
How SNH can help
- Design treasury and movement-of-funds structures
- Review security, permissions, approvals and operational controls
- Assess counterparty exposure and diversification
- Define vendor evaluation criteria across security, operations and commercial terms
- Leverage industry relationships to identify relevant providers and facilitate introductions where appropriate
- Support commercial negotiations covering pricing, spreads, fees, SLAs and other key terms
- Coordinate implementation and transition into the new structure
OutcomeA treasury and infrastructure structure designed around asset security, operational resilience, appropriate counterparty exposure and commercial efficiency.
Use Case 02
Stablecoin Infrastructure & Operations
A stablecoin business requires far more than token issuance. Banking, custody, liquidity, blockchain infrastructure, redemption, treasury, accounting and reconciliation all need to work together.
The challenge
- Designing the infrastructure behind issuance and redemption
- Connecting fiat reserves with on-chain activity
- Managing custody, banking and liquidity relationships
- Establishing mint, burn and settlement workflows
- Creating reliable accounting and reconciliation across on-chain and off-chain activity
How SNH can help
- Map the required banking, custody, liquidity and blockchain infrastructure
- Design issuance, redemption, treasury and settlement workflows
- Evaluate providers and support relevant introductions
- Establish financial operations, accounting and reconciliation processes
- Coordinate integrations, testing, launch readiness and operational handover
OutcomeA stablecoin operating model where issuance, redemption, treasury, infrastructure, liquidity, financial operations and reconciliation work together as the business scales.
Use Case 03
Financial Operations & Reconciliation
As a crypto business grows, financial activity can span blockchains, wallets, custodians, exchanges, banks, OTC desks, payment providers and internal systems. The challenge is creating one reliable financial picture across all of them.
The challenge
- Different systems report different balances
- Transactions are difficult to trace end-to-end
- Settlement and fee differences are discovered late
- Exceptions have no consistent ownership or workflow
How SNH can help
- Map transaction and asset flows across the business
- Design accounting, settlement and reconciliation processes
- Connect blockchain, custody, exchange, bank and internal records
- Define exception management and control procedures
- Create management reporting requirements
- Identify opportunities for automation
OutcomeA financial operating framework that gives management confidence in the numbers, visibility into assets and transactions, and a controlled process for resolving exceptions.
Use Case 04
Infrastructure & Vendor Selection
Crypto businesses often depend on a complex network of external providers. The wrong infrastructure decision can create security, operational, commercial and integration problems that become expensive to unwind.
The challenge
- Too many potential vendors and infrastructure options
- Limited internal experience evaluating providers
- Unclear dependencies between banking, custody, liquidity, payments, compliance and technology
- Difficulty comparing operational and commercial trade-offs
How SNH can help
- Translate the business model into infrastructure requirements
- Define vendor evaluation criteria
- Identify relevant providers and facilitate introductions where appropriate
- Support vendor evaluation and commercial negotiations
- Coordinate implementation planning and transition
OutcomeA practical infrastructure roadmap and a clearer path from provider selection to implementation.
Use Case 05
Operational Transformation
A crypto business has grown quickly and its operating model has not kept pace. Teams rely on manual workflows, unclear ownership and disconnected systems to manage day-to-day operations.
The challenge
- Processes have evolved organically and are difficult to scale
- Responsibilities and approvals are not clearly defined
- Operational exceptions are handled inconsistently
- Vendors and internal teams are not coordinated through a clear operating model
How SNH can help
- Map the current operating model and identify gaps
- Redesign workflows, ownership and controls
- Establish operational reporting and escalation procedures
- Coordinate implementation alongside the existing team
- Identify recurring problems that may be candidates for automation
OutcomeA clearer, more controlled operating model that can scale with the business and provide a foundation for future automation.
Use Case 06
From Business Problem to Technology
A crypto business has identified an operational problem that would benefit from a dedicated product or internal tool, but does not want to build and manage a large engineering organization to get there.
The challenge
- The business problem is clear but product requirements are not fully defined
- Internal teams may not have the product or engineering capacity to deliver it
- Traditional development resources may be expensive or difficult to manage
- Business, product, security and engineering requirements need to stay aligned
How SNH can help
- Translate the business problem into product requirements and workflows
- Define scope, priorities, functional requirements and implementation phases
- Help shape the technology approach and delivery plan
- Connect the client with experienced development teams within SNH's industry network
- Coordinate the client, product and development teams through delivery
- Support testing, launch readiness and operational handover
OutcomeA practical path from business problem to working technology, with SNH bridging the gap between the business, product requirements and development team.
SNH Network
Industry relationships that help move projects forward.
SNH's relationships extend across crypto infrastructure, financial providers and experienced development teams. Where appropriate, those relationships can help clients identify relevant providers, ask better initial questions, facilitate introductions and access practical delivery resources.
These use cases are illustrative and describe the types of advisory and implementation support SNH may provide. They are not representations of work performed for any particular client.