A method for managing a deal room using a cryptographic ledger that includes a plurality of blocks that store information relating to a deal being hosted in the deal room, the method comprising: receiving a request to perform an operation with respect to the deal room from a remote computing device, wherein the request indicates a user that is requesting permission to perform the operation and a permission key corresponding to the user; determining a cryptographic hash of the operation specific permission key using a hash function; transmitting the cryptographic hash to a plurality of node computing device, wherein each node computing device stores at least a portion of the cryptographic ledger, and wherein the cryptographic ledger in part stores cryptographic hashes of operation specific permission keys that indicate permissions granted to respective users associated with the deal.