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
Zürcher Kantonalbank bitcoin and ether trading and custody (retail and B2B for Swiss banks)
- regulatory
- Unknown
- technical
- Live — commercial, within explicit scope2024-09-04
- commercial
- Live — commercial, within explicit scope2024-09-04
Zürcher Kantonalbank began offering trading and custody of Bitcoin and Ethereum on 4 September 2024 in its eBanking and Mobile Banking, holding clients' private keys itself, and opened the service to other Swiss banks, with Thurgauer Kantonalbank as the first partner bank. (Source text in German; summary translated.)
Scope: ZKB clients in Switzerland and Swiss third-party banks; BTC and ETH 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
- Thurgauer Kantonalbank · named role (tracker) · first partner bank using the B2B service
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.
2024-09-04 · Status
ZKB crypto trading and custody launched; Thurgauer Kantonalbank first B2B partner.
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