Boost Insurance (“Boost”) alongside go-to-market partner, Breach Insurance (“Breach”), an insurtech that provides insurance technology and regulated insurance products for the cryptocurrency market, announced the launch of Crypto Shield, the first insurance product for cryptocurrency available to retail wallet holders. Crypto Shield covers the theft of cryptocurrency while in the custody of a qualified custodian.
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Crypto Shield is the first product to allow individuals to purchase protection for their crypto wallets held by select custodians. In the case that the custodian is breached or suffers a social engineering attack resulting in lost assets, individuals insured under Crypto Shield can be reimbursed for the value of their policy.
While there is some commercial insurance available to cryptocurrency institutions, Breach envisioned Crypto Shield as a solution to the protection gap that currently exists for individuals holding cryptocurrency, securing a partnership with Boost to assist in navigating the complexity of bringing Crypto Shield to life. Boost’s insurance infrastructure-as-a-service packages the necessary operational, technological, compliance, and capital requirements for new insurance programs into a white-label solution, enabling insurtechs like Breach to more quickly launch new lines of business.
“Early stage insurtechs have foundational operational gaps, and it’s been exciting to find relationships that complement one another as well as our partnerships with Boost and Relm,” said Eyhab Aejaz, Co-Founder and CEO at Breach. “Boost’s deep expertise and insurance infrastructure-as-a-service platform, and Relm’s industry-leading crypto reinsurance capabilities, have positioned Breach to bring a highly complex insurance product to the market in a beautifully delivered customer experience.”
Boost’s team of insurance and technology experts worked with Breach to develop a product that met all regulatory and compliance standards in all applicable jurisdictions. To deliver that product in a seamless experience, Boost and Breach’s platforms connect via API, allowing Boost’s policy administration system to deliver back-end management for the Crypto Shield product. Breach’s customers are then able to purchase and manage every part of their policy and claims process, all from within Breach’s proprietary crypto insurance platform.
“Many of our insurtech and embedded partners have the deep market knowledge to identify and solve for gaps in the insurance market, but the insurance industry is often reluctant or unwilling to embrace emerging markets like crypto and traditional players lack the technology needed to support innovators like Breach,” said Alex Maffeo, CEO and Founder of Boost. “With Boost’s infrastructure-as-a-service platform, forward-thinking companies like Breach can launch and deliver innovative new insurance offerings, at a fraction of the time and cost required to build a full-stack insurance program from scratch.”
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