FalconX has joined Taurus-NETWORK, adding a prime-brokerage credit and liquidity layer to Taurus’ institutional digital asset settlement system. Taurus said FalconX is the first prime broker to join the network and the first to extend financing solutions across it.
The agreement gives Taurus-NETWORK members access to FalconX’s liquidity, credit and financing capabilities through the network’s infrastructure. FalconX will also support new use cases around collateral management, lending, borrowing and derivatives.
Why does it matter? Taurus-NETWORK is built for institutions that want to trade and settle digital assets without moving collateral to an intermediary.
Members can transact and pledge collateral directly between their Taurus custody environments. Taurus offers an interbank settlement and collateral system with real-time settlement and collateral management capabilities.
That structure addresses a key weakness in crypto market plumbing.
Many institutional trading models still require pre-funding platforms, transferring assets to third parties or accepting counterparty exposure. Taurus’ model keep custody control with the institution while allowing bilateral trading, collateral pledging and settlement across a shared network.
FalconX adds the credit layer on top of that rail.
“We’re pleased to welcome FalconX to Taurus-NETWORK,” Lamine Brahimi, Co-founder and Managing Partner at Taurus, said in a statement shared with AlexaBlockchain.
“FalconX’s proven track record in institutional trading and lending aligns” with Taurus’ goal of building a secure environment where financial institutions can do business while retaining end-to-end control of their digital assets.
FalconX said institutional adoption needs infrastructure that improves trading, financing and collateral workflows across digital assets.
Through Taurus-NETWORK, FalconX said it can extend its liquidity and credit capabilities to a wider set of institutional counterparties and help capital move more efficiently across the digital asset ecosystem.
Taurus launched Taurus-NETWORK in April 2025 with members including Arab Bank Switzerland, Capital Union Bank, Flowdesk, ISP Group, Misyon Bank and Swissquote. At launch, Taurus said the network connected more than 35 banking institutions across 4 continents and 10 countries.
The network has since expanded.
According to Taurus’ announcement, Taurus-NETWORK now spans more than 40 counterparties across 12 countries and four continents. Members include Swissquote, Arab Bank Switzerland and Capital Union Bank.
The timing is also important for FalconX.
CoinDesk reported on May 28 that FalconX had confidentially filed a draft S-1 registration statement with the US SEC and hired Cantor to advise on a potential IPO. The report said FalconX was last valued at $8 billion in 2022 and serves institutional clients including hedge funds, asset managers and market makers.
For a pre-listing prime broker, the Taurus deal shows a shift beyond trading spreads.
FalconX is building around financing, credit, custody-linked settlement and institutional workflow infrastructure. Those businesses can create more recurring revenue than spot execution alone.
FalconX has already been expanding in that direction.
In August 2025, FalconX expanded Prime Connect with Copper’s ClearLoop for Bybit, allowing direct-market-access clients to trade while keeping assets off-exchange. In December 2025, it added a similar integration for Deribit, targeting derivatives liquidity with off-exchange custody.
FalconX has also moved deeper into regulated investment products.
In October 2025, FalconX agreed to acquire 21shares, a crypto ETP provider managing more than $11 billion across products. Reuters reported that FalconX had facilitated more than $2 trillion in trades and served over 2,000 institutional clients.
The Taurus integration fits a broader post-FTX trend in institutional crypto.
After exchange failures exposed custody and counterparty risks, more infrastructure providers have focused on off-exchange settlement, collateral segregation and bank-grade control over assets. Copper’s ClearLoop, for example, allows settlement between clients and exchanges while funds remain in Copper custody.
Fireblocks has pursued a similar model.
Its Off Exchange product lets trading firms and asset managers trade on centralized exchanges while keeping custody of their assets. Fireblocks said early users allocated more than $100 million to collateral accounts through the product in September 2024.
Traditional finance is moving in the same direction.
DTCC said in April 2026 that its collateral experiment showed tokenized assets, stablecoins, tokenized money market funds and Bitcoin could operate within a unified collateral framework without forcing firms to abandon existing infrastructure.
JPMorgan has also tested tokenized collateral in live market conditions.
BlackRock and Barclays used JPMorgan’s Tokenized Collateral Network for a collateral settlement tied to an over-the-counter derivatives transaction. The system was designed to mobilize collateral without requiring transfer of the underlying asset.
That is why the Taurus-FalconX announcement carries broader market significance.
It shows institutional crypto infrastructure becoming more like the core back-end systems used in traditional capital markets: custody separated from trading platforms, credit added to settlement rails, and collateral managed across regulated counterparties.
For banks, brokers and asset managers, that could be more important than another trading platforms.
The next phase of institutional digital asset adoption may depend less on access to tokens and more on whether firms can finance, pledge, settle and manage collateral without losing custody control.
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