Storage is an activity carried out mainly for physical items and is regulated in the Turkish Code of Obligations. This view of the custodial service can be explored under the name of the general retention agreement. In addition to the general custody agreement, there are also activities with the same name, such as custody by renting a safe deposit box in banks, portfolio custody in the capital market, and custody of crypto assets. The rule of law to which each of these activities is subject is different. The legal nature of the custodial activity varies according to the type of work performed. While a general storage agreement can be mentioned in the case of keeping an item of a physical nature, if the subject of the custody service is a value with an economic equivalent, the existence of a power of attorney agreement should be mentioned. There are also services such as account tracking, keeping and monitoring records, and providing access authorisation in the stored values. The safe deposit box service offered by banks is a mixed contract. In this study, which deals with the custody of crypto assets, explanations will be made about the general custody agreement, custody within the scope of safe lease, portfolio custody, and the storage of the latest crypto assets, respectively. During the explanations, comparisons will be made between the storage types from time to time. At the end of the study, a comparison will be made between Turkish law and European Union legal regulations in terms of the storage of cryptoassets.
Himmet Koç (Sat,) studied this question.