- Taurus is preparing to deploy its HSM-based digital-asset custody platform inside MPCH’s high-security US facilities.
- The arrangement gives banks, custodians and government agencies a domestic hosting option while Taurus retains control of its cryptographic operations.
- It addresses growing demands around infrastructure sovereignty, resilience and data residency.
Taurus is preparing a U.S.-hosted version of its digital-asset custody platform for banks, government agencies and other regulated institutions seeking greater control over where their cryptographic infrastructure operates.
The Swiss financial-technology company will deploy its hardware security module-based platform within facilities operated by MPCH, a New York-based provider of cryptographic infrastructure and managed secure sites.
It offers Taurus a domestic deployment option without transferring control of its private-key technology or cryptographic processes to MPCH.
Under the proposed structure, MPCH will provide a dedicated secured area, physical infrastructure and managed operational services. Taurus will continue operating the HSM technology that generates, stores and uses the cryptographic keys controlling customer assets.
The companies have not disclosed the facilities’ locations, launch date, expected capacity or initial customers.
Domestic Hosting Becomes a Sales Requirement
The partnership reflects a change in how U.S. financial institutions evaluate digital-asset custody providers.
Banks have long been allowed to provide cryptocurrency custody services. More recent guidance from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency also confirmed that national banks may outsource permissible crypto activities, including custody and transaction execution, provided they maintain appropriate third-party risk controls.
There is no blanket federal rule requiring all bank custody infrastructure to remain inside the United States.
However, infrastructure location can become a procurement condition for institutions handling sensitive data, government assets or systemically important operations. Federal banking guidance asks institutions to assess the location of third parties, subcontractors and associated data, alongside cybersecurity, disaster recovery and business-continuity arrangements.
That makes domestic hosting commercially important even when it is not explicitly mandated by law.
For Taurus, the MPCH arrangement could reduce a potential barrier when pitching U.S. banks, federal agencies and regulated custodians that are unwilling to place critical signing infrastructure in an overseas facility.
A Defense-Linked Infrastructure Provider
MPCH is a dual-use cryptographic infrastructure company serving financial institutions, blockchain networks and national-security environments.
Its U.S. defense subsidiary, Ti22, is a prime contractor to U.S. Special Operations Command through SOFWERX, according to MPCH. It operates dedicated secure sites, air-gapped recovery systems and managed security operations for institutional and defense clients.
MPCH’s infrastructure combines purpose-built facilities with hardware-backed signing, biometric controls, chain-of-custody records and round-the-clock monitoring. Its sites include geographically separated, air-gapped recovery environments designed to remain isolated from normal network access.
The defense relationship does not mean Taurus’ customers will use classified government infrastructure. It does give Taurus access to an operator whose security model was built for both regulated finance and national-security applications.
“Financial institutions need the flexibility to deploy digital asset infrastructure in a way that meets their specific security, resilience, and regulatory requirements,” Milena Kohlhofer, strategic partnerships executive at Taurus, said in a statement shared with AlexaBlockchain.
“Our collaboration with MPCH will expand the deployment options available to U.S. institutions by combining secure, domestic infrastructure with Taurus’ enterprise-grade custody technology,” Milena added.
Why Does It Matter?
Digital-asset custody is not simply a question of storing cryptocurrency.
The custodian must control the private keys authorizing transactions while preventing attackers, insiders or infrastructure providers from gaining unilateral access. A failure in that control layer can result in assets being transferred irreversibly.
Taurus’ platform supports on-premise, cloud and hybrid deployments and uses HSMs alongside multiparty computation. HSMs place key generation and transaction signing inside tamper-resistant hardware rather than exposing raw private keys to ordinary servers or applications.
The MPCH deployment separates responsibilities further.
MPCH controls the physical perimeter and supporting infrastructure. Taurus retains responsibility for the HSMs and cryptographic operations. Customers can therefore gain domestic infrastructure without handing signing authority to the facility operator.
That division may appeal to institutions seeking to avoid concentrating software, keys, physical custody and operational control with one provider.
Banks Are Moving From Tests to Production
Taurus has already demonstrated that its technology can be embedded inside the infrastructure of a large U.S. custodian.
In 2025, State Street established a production environment using Taurus technology within a year of announcing their partnership. The deployment included blockchain connectors and HSM integration for a private permissioned network.
State Street also connected Taurus’ custody and tokenization platforms to a Hyperledger Besu network and began rolling out tokenization initiatives. The bank said the architecture could support tokenized funds, securities and digital settlement instruments.
The MPCH arrangement addresses a different part of the adoption process.
Rather than adding new asset or tokenization capabilities, it gives Taurus another way to satisfy physical-security, infrastructure-residency and operational-resilience requirements during institutional procurement.
That could help Taurus compete with U.S.-regulated custodians and infrastructure providers that already market domestic operations as part of their compliance offering.
Preparing for New Cryptographic Standards
Taurus and MPCH are also positioning the infrastructure as a foundation for eventually adopting post-quantum cryptography.
Quantum computers capable of breaking today’s widely used public-key algorithms do not yet exist at the required scale. Institutions nevertheless face lengthy testing, certification and systems-integration cycles before changing the cryptography used in critical infrastructure.
NIST finalized its first three post-quantum cryptography standards in August 2024, including two standards for digital signatures and one for establishing shared encryption keys. The agency has urged organizations to begin preparing for migration.
Taurus said compatible HSMs could allow institutions to introduce supported post-quantum signature methods through firmware and certification upgrades rather than replacing the entire custody architecture.
“A controlled environment for HSM-based infrastructure, together with Taurus’ cryptographic agility, gives institutions a stronger foundation to prepare for future post-quantum migration while retaining control over their cryptographic operations and custody environment,” Kohlhofer said.
That remains a future capability for now.
The more immediate value of the partnership is simpler: Taurus can offer U.S. institutions a domestically hosted custody environment while keeping control of the cryptographic machinery that ultimately controls their digital assets.
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