Casa (bitcoin security company)

Casa was co-founded in 2016 by Jeremy Welch, a former product specialist at GoogleGoogleGoogle is an American technology company founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin and incorporated in 1998. It became an Alphabet subsidiary in 2015. Its businesses include internet search, advertising, software platforms, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence.Open the full entry.⁠[1]

In March 2018 Casa launched its first product and raised $2.1 million from Lerer Hippeau, Compound and Boost VC. It was a multisignature wallet in which any three of five keys could move funds, with one key held by Casa for recovery.⁠[2]

BitGoBitGoBitGo is an American digital asset custody and infrastructure company founded in 2013 by Mike Belshe. It offers custody, wallets, staking, trading, financing, stablecoin and settlement services, and its subsidiary BitGo Bank & Trust, National Association, is a national trust bank regulated by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. The company listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker BTGO in January 2026 and is the custodian and infrastructure provider for World Liberty Financial’s USD1 stablecoin.Open the full entry engineer Jameson Lopp joined Casa at the same time.⁠[2]

In January 2020 Welch stepped down as CEO for personal reasons and head of product Nick Neuman took over; CTO Jameson Lopp kept his role and joined the board alongside Neuman.⁠[3]

The company also wound down its Casa Node hardware, shifting to open-source node software and a $10 monthly key-service subscription.⁠[3]

In September 2020 Welch joined the cryptocurrency exchange KrakenKrakenKraken is a digital-asset trading platform founded in 2011 by Jesse Powell and Thanh Luu and launched for trading in 2013. As Payward’s flagship brand, it has expanded into spot and derivatives trading, equities, tokenized assets, custody and payments through jurisdiction-specific entities.Open the full entry as vice president of product while continuing to advise Casa.⁠[1]

Casa closed a $21 million Series A round in December 2021, led by Acrew Capital with participation from Castle Island Ventures, Lerer Hippeau and Naval RavikantNaval RavikantNaval Ravikant is an entrepreneur and angel investor and a co-founder of AngelList. Early on he co-founded the review site Epinions; he and Babak Nivi later grew AngelList out of the startup-fundraising blog Venture Hacks, and he co-founded the cryptocurrency hedge fund MetaStable Capital and Spearhead, which backs founders to make angel investments. His views on startups and life were compiled into the book The Almanack of Naval Ravikant.Open the full entry, among others; the company announced the round in May 2022.⁠[4]

Announced alongside it, the Casa API initially offered two features, View Balance and Deposit to Casa, with a closed beta planned for that summer.⁠[4]

In November 2022 Casa announced an overhauled app, due in January 2023, followed by Ethereum storage. Neuman said Ethereum had been the most frequent customer request for the previous couple of years.⁠[5]

After the collapse of FTXFTXFTX was a cryptocurrency exchange founded in 2019 by Sam Bankman-Fried and Gary Wang that operated FTX.com, moved its headquarters from Hong Kong to the Bahamas in 2021 and was valued at $32 billion in January 2022. In November 2022 it filed for U.S. bankruptcy protection amid a liquidity crisis, and Bankman-Fried was later convicted of fraud and related charges. Its reorganization plan took effect in January 2025, after which the FTX Recovery Trust began paying creditors in stages.Open the full entry, Lopp said: “Self-custody is the only way to prove ownership and control of your digital assets.”⁠[5]

In March 2024 Casa introduced Casa Inheritance, which lets members on its latest plans share vault access with a trusted person to facilitate the generational transfer of digital assets.⁠[6]

In April 2024 Casa acquired Chamber, a team specializing in applied cryptography and passkeys. Chamber’s co-founders William Allen and Bryan Latten became Casa’s chief operating officer and chief technology officer. The two had been COO and chief architect of Behance and stayed for a decade after AdobeAdobeAdobe (Adobe Inc.) is a software company headquartered in San Jose, California, founded in 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke. Known for PostScript, PDF and creative software such as Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro and After Effects, it moved its main creative products to Creative Cloud subscriptions from 2013 and expanded into digital marketing and generative AI; it is listed on Nasdaq under the ticker ADBE.Open the full entry acquired it.⁠[7]

In November 2024 Casa launched Casa Enterprise to help businesses manage bitcoin treasuries in self-custody. The company said it has held its own bitcoin treasury since 2018, keeping membership fees paid in bitcoin.⁠[8]

In December 2024 it introduced Praetorian by Casa, intended to let a nation-state hold the private keys to its strategic bitcoin reserve under a purpose-built security model.⁠[9]

In May 2025 the Casa app added bitcoin purchases, powered by partner Zero Hash, which verifies users’ identities. ACH transfers range from $20 to $5,000 and wires start at $10,000; purchased coins can go straight to a Casa vault, with selling to follow.⁠[10]

In June 2025 Casa co-founder and chief security officer Jameson Lopp announced that the company had achieved a SOC 2 Type I attestation from the auditor Prescient Assurance, which evaluated the design of its systems and controls at a point in time.⁠[11]

In December 2025 it announced that it had passed a SOC 2 Type II audit covering April 1 to November 15, 2025, and said it planned a SOC 1 audit next and would likely expand to ISO 27001 afterwards.⁠[12]

On October 26, 2026, Bitcoin Magazine published a video interview with Casa co-founder Jameson Lopp covering Google’s 500,000-qubit estimate, the quantum computing timeline and Bitcoin Core’s security-policy change after AI accelerated vulnerability discovery.⁠[13]

Casa offers long-term security for bitcoin and stablecoins to individuals and businesses through multi-key vaults, inheritance and buy-and-sell features. Casa holds one key to help clients transact; its slogan is “We hold your hand, not your keys.”⁠[14]

Casa is a remote-only company with employees across the United States, Canada and Latin America.⁠[15]

Its terms of service are issued by Casa Inc., and the company contact address they list is in Denver, Colorado.⁠[16]