aid: protego-trust-bank
name: Protego Trust Bank
description: >-
  Protego Trust Bank is a Seattle, Washington digital-asset trust bank built for institutional
  clients, offering crypto-asset custody, trading, lending/borrowing and issuer services, with
  custody-related fiduciary services such as staking-as-a-service, protocol governance and voting,
  and fork and airdrop handling. Protego Trust Company received OCC conditional approval in
  February 2021 to convert into a national trust bank; that approval lapsed in February 2023 after
  pre-conversion requirements were not met. On 13 February 2026 the OCC granted parent Protego
  Holdings Corporation preliminary conditional approval (Corporate Decision #1366, control number
  2025-Charter-342009) to charter National Digital Trust Company, Seattle. Protego's marketing
  material has described API endpoints for trading and liquidity aggregation, but the company
  publishes no public developer portal, API reference or machine-readable contract, and as of
  this profile its own web properties do not complete a TLS handshake.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/protego-trust-bank/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: harvest
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-26'
modified: '2026-08-26'
tags:
- Company
- Banking
- Financial-Services
- Digital Assets
- Cryptocurrency
- Custody
- Trust Bank
- Institutional
- United States
tags_raw:
- Company
- Banking
- Financial Services
- Digital Assets
- Cryptocurrency
- Custody
- Trust Bank
- Institutional
- United States
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/protego-trust-bank-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.protegotrust.com/
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-26'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 6
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: no-developer-program
  detail: >-
    Protego has no reachable web surface at all - protegotrust.com, www.protegotrust.com
    and protegotrust.co each terminate the TLS handshake with a fatal internal_error
    alert and present no certificate (Webflow proxy hosts with no provisioned
    certificate), plain HTTP 301s into that same dead origin, api/docs/developer
    subdomains do not resolve, and no developer portal, API reference or spec appears at
    any Protego URL in the public web archive going back to 2020.
  evidence:
  - url: https://www.protegotrust.com/
    status: 0
  - url: https://www.protegotrust.com/openapi.json
    status: 0
  - url: https://www.protegotrust.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 0
  - url: https://api.protegotrust.com/
    status: 0
  - url: https://pypi.org/pypi/protego-trust/json
    status: 404
  - url: https://api.github.com/orgs/protegotrust
    status: 200
  checked: '2026-08-26'