Swiss digital asset infrastructure firm Taurus has partnered with P2P.org to let banks and financial institutions access staking services directly through Taurus’ custody platform.
The integration will start with Ethereum.
Taurus said clients using Taurus-PROTECT, its custody platform for banks and regulated institutions, will be able to stake ETH through a native integration with Ethereum’s Beacon Chain deposit contract.
The partnership also gives clients access to validator operations across other proof-of-stake networks, including Solana, Polkadot, Cosmos, NEAR, Cardano and Tezos.
The move is aimed at banks that already custody digital assets but want to generate protocol rewards without moving assets into separate staking workflows.
Under the arrangement, clients retain control of their assets while delegating validator operations to P2P.org. Rewards are determined by the underlying blockchain protocol, rather than by Taurus or P2P.org.
“We are pleased to partner with P2P.org to provide institutional staking services through Taurus-PROTECT,” said Clémentine Drouot, Head of Taurus-NETWORK Partnerships at Taurus. “This collaboration reflects our commitment to providing financial institutions with secure, compliant, and scalable access to staking services, while supporting the operational and governance standards that banks require.”
P2P.org operates non-custodial validator infrastructure for institutional staking. It secures more than $10 billion in delegated assets across more than 50 proof-of-stake networks and has had no slashing incidents across 7 years of operations.
Staking allows holders of proof-of-stake assets to participate in network validation and earn rewards. On Ethereum, validators help store data, process transactions and add blocks to the chain after depositing ETH into the staking system.
But for regulated financial institutions, the technical process is only one part of the problem.
Banks also need custody controls, governance approvals, reporting, validator monitoring, risk management and regulatory clarity. A staking product that sits outside existing custody infrastructure can create operational friction and new compliance questions.
The Taurus-P2P.org partnership is designed to reduce that friction.
“Institutional adoption of staking depends on infrastructure that meets the operational, security, and governance requirements of regulated financial institutions,” Alexander Loktev, CRO of P2P.org, mentioned in a statement shared with AlexaBlockchain.
“By integrating with Taurus, we enable banks and financial institutions worldwide to access institutional-grade staking services directly within the digital asset platform they already use, reducing operational complexity and accelerating time-to-market,” Alexander added.
Taurus has become one of the more visible Swiss digital asset infrastructure providers for banks.
In 2023, Deutsche Bank partnered with Taurus to use its custody and tokenization technology for cryptocurrencies, tokenized assets and digital currencies.
In 2023, Taurus also raised $65 million in a Series B funding round led by Credit Suisse, with participation from Deutsche Bank, Pictet Group and Arab Bank Switzerland.
In 2024, State Street partnered with Taurus to offer digital asset services, including crypto custody and tokenization support for asset-management clients.
The new staking integration comes as banks and institutional custodians expand beyond basic storage.
Staking has increasingly become part of the institutional crypto stack, alongside custody, trading, settlement, tokenization and governance.
Coinbase Prime, for example, offers institutions custody, trading, financing and staking in one platform. Coinbase and Figment also expanded institutional staking access in 2025, allowing Prime clients to use Figment infrastructure without moving assets out of Coinbase custody.
Anchorage Digital has taken a similar route in the United States. The federally chartered crypto bank offers staking from custody and added institutional Solana staking through Marinade Finance in 2026.
BitGo has also marketed staking from qualified custody or self-custody, with integrated reporting and validator support.
The pattern is clear. Institutions do not want staking as a standalone crypto-native workflow. They want it embedded into regulated custody, with audit trails, permissioning, reporting and validator oversight.
The partnership also broadens Taurus’ staking options after its earlier institutional staking collaboration with Everstake. That deal gave Taurus clients access to staking across networks including Solana, NEAR, Cardano and Tezos.
The P2P.org integration adds another validator provider to Taurus’ institutional network and places Ethereum at the center of the offering.
The timing is also relevant for Europe.
The EU’s MiCA (Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation) has created a more defined framework for crypto-asset service providers. The European Securities and Markets Authority has said staking services are linked to custody when client assets or private keys are held by the provider, meaning firms offering such services must be authorized for custody and administration of crypto-assets.
That makes custody-native staking more important for banks.
It does not eliminate risk. Staking can involve validator downtime, slashing, liquidity constraints, smart contract risk and changing protocol economics. Rewards also fluctuate based on network conditions and are not fixed yields.
Still, the integration shows where institutional digital asset infrastructure is moving.
Banks are no longer looking only for secure crypto storage. They increasingly want ways to put held assets to work while staying inside governance and compliance frameworks they already use.
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