Geneva / Schwyz, Switzerland, August 5th 2026 | Taurus, a leading digital asset infrastructure provider for banks and regulated financial institutions, now supports the full Hedera technology stack. Institutions can use every capability of the Hedera network – from the custody of digital assets to the issuance of tokenized products – through a single provider.

Taurus, whose technology is used in production by more than 40 banks and regulated financial institutions worldwide, including Deutsche Bank, CACEIS and State Street, has built out Hedera support in three phases over 18 months, in strategic partnership with The Hashgraph Association.

With the final phase, smart contract capability, now delivered, an institution can custody and stake HBAR, Hedera's native currency, as well as issuing tokens or running programmable products such as tokenized bonds, funds and stablecoins, all within the same platform and under the same due-diligence and risk framework.

Infrastructure chosen for a bank's custody needs today often cannot support its tokenization plans tomorrow, forcing a fresh vendor search, a new risk assessment and another integration project just as a digital asset strategy gathers pace. Full Hedera coverage inside Taurus removes that risk: expanding into new digital asset products becomes a configuration decision rather than a procurement exercise. Institutions are not asked to commit to advanced use cases upfront; the infrastructure is already in place for whenever their strategy matures.

The integration spans all three Taurus platforms - Taurus-PROTECT, Taurus-EXPLORER and Taurus-CAPITAL - and covers custody, staking, node infrastructure, native token issuance through the Hedera Token Service, and smart contract deployment through Hedera's EVM-compatible Smart Contract Service, which lets institutions and their technology partners build using Solidity and other standard Ethereum developer tools.

The smart contract addition also opens Hedera to the companies that build products for banks: tokenization engines, stablecoin issuers and fund administrators can now run on Hedera under Taurus custody without any additional infrastructure of their own.

The Hashgraph Association, the Swiss non-profit that drives global adoption of the Hedera network, supported the build-out throughout its funding, training and ecosystem development programs. The two organisations announced their partnership in 2025, and Taurus joined the Association's Global Membership Program earlier this year.

Kamal Youssefi, President of The Hashgraph Association, which partnered with Taurus on the integration, said,

"With the MICA regulatory framework taking effect in Europe, alongside the progress in the USA with the Clarity Act, institutional investors and highly regulated financial institutions can now enter the Web3 space with ease and confidence, thanks to the full integration of the Hedera technology stack into Taurus’s crypto infrastructure solutions.”

He adds,

“Utilizing one of the best governed enterprise grade public networks, and leveraging Taurus’s full range of industry leading capabilities, this partnership represents another major milestone in the institutional adoption of the Hedera network.”

Lamine Brahimi, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Taurus, also commented that,

"Financial institutions need infrastructure that can cover more than one digital asset use case. They want a single platform for the full spectrum of their strategy. By supporting the complete Hedera technology stack, Taurus enables institutions to leverage native tokenization, smart contracts, and custody capabilities within the same regulated infrastructure they already trust."

Micha Roon, Head of Engineering at The Hashgraph Group, added that,

"This single-platform approach entirely removes the technical friction of vendor sprawl, empowering engineering teams to seamlessly scale from simple custody to programmable tokenization on Hedera without ever initiating another integration project."

Hedera is a public distributed ledger network whose nodes are operated by a governing council of global organisations, including Google, IBM, Deutsche Telekom, Standard Bank and, since this year, Accenture and FedEx. The network has processed more than 70 billion transactions to date. With stablecoin rules maturing across major markets, institutional tokenization is moving from pilots to procurement - and how much of a network a provider supports has become part of how banks score their options.

The Hashgraph Association and Taurus announced their strategic partnership in 2025, which was followed this year with the joining of Taurus into The Hashgraph Association Membership program, another step into active engagement within the Hedera ecosystem.