Swiss-headquartered digital asset infrastructure provider Taurus, which works with banks and regulated financial institutions, is now offering Hedera’s complete DLT stack, providing functionality for the custody and issuance of tokenised assets.
Taurus is used by more than 40 banks and regulated financial institutions worldwide, including Deutsche Bank, CACEIS and State Street. It has built out support for Hedera in three phases over the past 18 months, in strategic partnership with The Hashgraph Association, which manages the development of the Hedera DLT platform.Having now implemented smart contract functionality for Hedera, Taurus now allows institutions to custody and stake HBAR, Hedera’s native cryptocurrency. Already offered was the ability to issue tokens for programmable products, such as tokenised bonds, funds, and stablecoins.
As a result, Taurus now supports banks that want to extend their current TradFi custody requirements to include tokenisation and digital assets, without implementation or integration risk, and with faster time to market.
Lamine Brahimi, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Taurus, notes: “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 tokenisation, smart contracts, and custody capabilities within the same regulated infrastructure they already trust.”
Hedera is a public DLT 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.
Hedera’s DLT platform is not a blockchain architecture but uses a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) where transactions are recorded and confirmed in a web-like history. Also, instead of traditional proof-of-work or proof-of-stake block validation, Hedera uses a “gossip-about-gossip” protocol and virtual voting for its Hashgraph consensus. Nodes rapidly pass transaction data to each other, allowing the network to reach consensus mathematically without mining. As a result of its architecture, Hedera achieves transaction finality in seconds with 10,000 transactions per second throughput, and fixed, predictable fees.
Hedera also implements an Ethereum Virtual Machine component, which allows smart contracts written in Solidity to run and supports ERC token standards, including ERC-3643 for real-time transaction compliance.
The Hashgraph Association worked with Taurus for the build-out with 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, says: “With the MICA regulatory framework taking effect in Europe, alongside the progress in the US 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’ crypto infrastructure solutions.”
In addition to Taurus, Hedera counts several other tokenisation players as partners, including Aberdeen, Archax and Securitize.
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