Crypto readiness score
2/3 status dimensions verified · 2 initiatives · last verified 2026-10-25
Score breakdown
How the number above is built — every input is a verified tracker status with a dated source.
| Component | Weight | Points | Basis (verified input) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Commercial availability | 35 | 35 | Live — commercial, within explicit scope · initiative |
| Regulatory standing | 25 | — | No verified status — not scored |
| Technical delivery | 20 | 20 | Live — commercial, within explicit scope · initiative |
| Product breadth | 15 | 10 | 2 product categories with a verified status: Stablecoin issuance, Custody & trading |
| Recent verified activity | 5 | 5 | Last verified change 2026-04-08 |
Score = sum of points, rounded. Only verified tracker statuses count; “Unknown” earns nothing and is never estimated. Methodology
Initiatives (2)
Regulatory, technical and commercial status are kept separate: an authorisation is not a launch.
Stablecoin issuance · Switzerland
Swiss banks' joint CHF stablecoin sandbox (Raiffeisen, UBS, PostFinance, Sygnum, ZKB, BCV)
- regulatory
- Unknown
- technical
- Pilot / proof of concept2026-04-08
- commercial
- Unknown
Raiffeisen, UBS, PostFinance, Sygnum, Zürcher Kantonalbank and BCV said on 8 April 2026 that they are jointly testing selected use cases of a Swiss-franc stablecoin with Swiss Stablecoin AG in a protected live sandbox, which is open to further banks, companies and institutions. (Source text in German; summary translated.)
Scope: Sandbox testing of selected CHF stablecoin use cases.
In tracker · last verified 2026-10-25
Custody & trading · Switzerland
PostFinance crypto trading, custody and savings plans (Switzerland)
- regulatory
- Unknown
- technical
- Live — commercial, within explicit scope2024-02-21
- commercial
- Live — commercial, within explicit scope2024-02-21
PostFinance launched a crypto offering on 21 February 2024 that lets its customers buy, hold and set up savings plans for initially eleven cryptocurrencies, in cooperation with FINMA-regulated crypto bank Sygnum; PostFinance says it is the first systemically important bank in Switzerland to bring crypto trading directly to its customers. (Source text in German; summary translated.)
Scope: PostFinance customers in Switzerland; eleven cryptocurrencies at launch.
In tracker · last verified 2026-10-25
Licences & registrations
Regulator records (or MiCA Art. 60 notifications — a notification, not an authorisation).
No licence or registration record in our verified data. This means “not reviewed”, not “unlicensed”.
Partners & providers
From tracker records and verified item text only. “Co-named” means both appear in the same source — open it for context. Full map
- consortium:chf-stablecoin-sandbox · named role (tracker) · consortium member
- BCV · named role (tracker) · issuance infrastructure
- Sygnum Bank · named role (tracker) · FINMA-regulated crypto bank; B2B platform partner
Regulator records & actions
Register entries and regulator publications that name this institution.
None in our verified data.
Markets (from stated target markets): Switzerland
Timeline
Status changes (tracker history), verified items and regulatory dates, newest first.
2026-04-08 · Status
Joint CHF stablecoin sandbox launched.
2024-02-21 · Status
PostFinance crypto offering launched for its customers.
Data: /api/banks.json (CC BY 4.0) · Spot an error? Corrections
Newsletter · free · one email a week
The weekly crypto-banking intelligence brief
Bank initiatives, licences and status changes like the ones on this page land in the brief the week they are verified. Each issue: the week’s material regulatory and bank moves, status changes in the adoption tracker, and the deadlines coming up — every fact linked to the document it comes from. No hype, no price talk.
62 quote-verified items · 80 bank initiatives tracked · 23 jurisdictions
Free sample, no signup needed: State of Crypto Banking — September 2026 (PDF) · read online
Form not loading? Subscribe on beehiiv ↗
See a sample issue · unsubscribe from any email · privacy