New Partnership Between Taurus and Blockdaemon Bring Institutional Staking to Banks
Taurus and Blockdaemon have joined forces to deliver institutional-grade staking directly to banks and regulated financial institutions, marking another step in the expansion of compliant crypto yield products.
At the center of the collaboration is the integration of Blockdaemon’s staking infrastructure into Taurus-PROTECT, the company’s FINMA-regulated custody platform. The structure allows banks to offer staking rewards to clients without transferring assets to external third-party operators – a key concern for compliance-driven institutions.
Integration Designed for Regulated Balance Sheets
Through this setup, financial institutions maintain full ownership and control of digital assets within their own regulated custody environments. Rather than outsourcing custody to a staking provider, banks can now participate in Proof-of-Stake network validation while keeping assets under internal governance frameworks.
The integration supports staking across major PoS blockchains. While the full list of supported networks was not disclosed, Blockdaemon’s broader infrastructure covers more than 60 protocols globally, offering flexibility for institutional portfolios.
Focus on Compliance and Operational Resilience
For conservative banking players, regulatory clarity and risk management remain critical. The solution has been structured to meet strict internal controls and governance standards, enabling institutions to generate yield without compromising oversight.
Blockdaemon secures over $110 billion in assets across its infrastructure. Its high-availability nodes and policy-driven operational controls are designed to meet the uptime and security expectations of global financial institutions.
Strategic Expansion for Both Firms
For Taurus, the integration expands its services beyond custody and tokenization into native on-chain yield generation. The firm continues positioning itself as a digital asset infrastructure provider for traditional finance, with staking now embedded inside its regulated stack.
Blockdaemon, meanwhile, strengthens its presence in the European banking market by embedding its staking rails directly into a compliant custody framework.
Taurus counts major global banks such as State Street, UBS, and Santander among its clients and is backed by large financial institutions including Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, and State Street.
The partnership underscores a broader trend across traditional finance: banks are increasingly building regulated on-ramps to on-chain yield strategies, transforming staking from a retail-focused activity into an institutional service line.
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Alex is Editor-in-Chief of Coindoo and co-founder of Millennial Media Group, with nearly a decade of experience covering financial markets - crypto first, then everything else. It started in 2016 with Bitcoin. Like most people at the time, he didn't fully understand it - so he kept digging. Blockchain, tokenomics, the projects, the cycles. That curiosity never stopped, and eventually pulled him into traditional markets too: equities, commodities, macro. Not because he left crypto behind, but because you can't properly understand one without the other. What drives him is straightforward: he wants to know why something is happening, not just that it's happening. Most market coverage stops at the headline - price up, price down, here's a chart. Alex finds that kind of reporting actively unhelpful. If you walk away from an article without understanding the mechanism behind the move, what did you actually learn? He holds a degree in Tourism from New Bulgarian University - not the most obvious path into financial markets, but markets have a way of pulling in people who are simply too curious to stay out. He has authored over 200 in-depth analyses and more than 10,000 articles across crypto and traditional finance. He still thinks every day in markets teaches him something new. That's probably why he hasn't stopped.
