Digital asset consulting & development
Storaker Advisory helps banks turn digital asset opportunities into working businesses—from strategy and incubation to on-chain development and launch.
New York / Working across the U.S. & Latin America
Selected engagement
Digital asset strategy through the launch of stablecoin payments.
The opportunity
Digital assets can change what a financial business does: how it reaches customers, moves capital, and brings products together. That’s where our work begins.
Design financial services around programmable assets and always-on markets.
Make assets more useful through collateral, liquidity, and integration with other services.
Explore new ways to distribute products and move value across borders.
How we work
We work with your institution through the decisions, design, and execution it takes to get a new offering off the ground.
Where should we play?
Identify where digital assets can create value for your institution. Build the business case and align the people who need to make it happen.
What should we build?
Turn the opportunity into a product and an operating model. Make the choices that connect business ambition to a practical path forward.
How do we get it running?
Develop the on-chain components, integrate the surrounding systems, and coordinate the work needed to move from a tested product into operation.
Tokenization / Stablecoins / Payments / Institutional DeFi
Technical capabilities
Practical experience across the infrastructure, controls, and on-chain components behind a digital asset product.
Custodial and self-custodial models, wallet integration, key-management workflows, and transaction approvals.
KYC/AML and transaction-monitoring integrations, permissioning, and controls built into product and operating workflows.
Smart contract development, tokenization logic, protocol integrations, testing, and deployment support.
Vault architecture, strategy integration, deposit and redemption flows, and connections to lending and liquidity protocols.
Engage for a focused technical build or a mandate spanning strategy through implementation.
Discuss a technical buildSelected experience
Current consulting work, supported by the founder’s prior experience building financial products from the ground up.
Storaker Advisory · Banking
Advised executive leadership on digital asset strategy, defined the operating model, and supported vendor implementation.
Launched a stablecoin-based cross-border payment service for wholesale and business banking.
Prior experience of the founder
Founder experience
Founded and led a self-custodial digital asset investing platform. Built the team, shaped tokenized investment strategies, and ran the business across product, operations, and compliance.
Incubation at BCG
Embedded from concept to help shape product vision and go-to-market. Served as acting Chief of Staff to the CEO, connecting strategy with execution across teams.
Incubation & scaling at BCG
Helped incubate the banking platform and launch its account, card, and P2P products. Led changes to core systems, operations, and the team to support its next stage of growth.
Writing & conversations
Selected writing and conversations from founder Christopher Storaker, Converge Editor at The Defiant, on the convergence of traditional finance and digital assets.
The Defiant
A view of the businesses, institutions, and ideas shaping the next financial system.
Read the newsletter Watch the podcastTokenization & composability
What changes when tokenized assets can participate in an open financial system? An exploration of the difference between putting assets onchain and making them useful there.
The Defiant · With Olivia Capozzalo
Banking & infrastructure
The strategic choices behind financial institutions’ push to own settlement infrastructure—and what ownership, governance, and vendor dependence mean for the business.
Converge · The Defiant
Leadership
Founder, Storaker Advisory
Strategy experience at BCG. Hands-on experience incubating financial businesses and building digital asset products.
Christopher’s background spans the incubation of Bakkt and MACH and cofounding Arch.Finance. He brings that experience to the practice’s consulting work and to his role as Converge Editor at The Defiant.
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