Cubist Launches ‘Non-custodial’ Web3 Private Key Manager
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“Right now in Web3, engineers are having to think about the low-level bits and bytes of what they’re doing,” Stefan said in an interview. “They’re having to write a lot of low-level, error-prone, verbose code that spans the entire tech stack.”
“So, there’s a couple of issues there. One is that you have to basically know everything to get anything done. And the second is that — just by the very nature of it — it’s prone to errors.”
Ann Stefan, Cubist co-founder/COO | Source: Cubist
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The startup has partnered with fellow Web3 infrastructure company Ankr on the launch.
“Really, where we’re coming [from] with this problem with Cubist is trying to abstract away much of that low-level detail, so that engineers can really focus on their product — and not have to try to be security experts and still be able to build secure products,” Stefan said.
A statement from Cubist described the product as a “non-custodial key management platform” that is “designed to help infrastructure engineering teams secure and programmatically manage their private key.”
The crypto key management software is built so that “no one — including Cubist — can see, copy, or steal private user keys,” the company said in its statement.
Cubist’s new key management software has already been “securing Ankr’s Ethereum validators, including the execution of safe withdrawals,” according to the release.
Stanley Wu, Ankr’s co-founder and chief technology officer, said Cubist is “uniquely qualified to secure Ankr’s most critical workflows” when it comes to “Ethereum liquid staking.”