Taurus completed an 18-month integration of Hedera on Aug. 5, giving banks and regulated financial institutions access to custody, staking, token issuance, node infrastructure and smart contract deployment through one provider, according to a press release shared with crypto.news.
The Hashgraph Association said the final phase added Hedera smart contract support to the Taurus platform. The rollout is available across Taurus-PROTECT, Taurus-EXPLORER and Taurus-CAPITAL.
Taurus technology is used by more than 40 banks and regulated institutions, including Deutsche Bank, CACEIS and State Street. The announcement did not identify a bank that has already launched a live Hedera product through the completed integration.
Institutions can custody and stake HBAR, Hedera’s native asset, while retaining the controls used for other assets inside Taurus. They can also access node infrastructure and issue tokens through the Hedera Token Service, which supports the creation and management of native fungible and nonfungible assets.
The newly delivered smart contract layer uses Hedera’s EVM compatible Smart Contract Service. This allows banks, issuers and technology partners to deploy Solidity based applications using familiar Ethereum development tools. The companies cited tokenized bonds, funds and stablecoins as possible products, but they did not announce a specific issuance, customer launch or transaction volume.
The companies cited tokenized bonds, funds and stablecoins as possible products. However, they did not announce a specific issuance, customer launch or transaction volume.
Lamine Brahimi, co-founder and managing partner of Taurus, said financial institutions increasingly want infrastructure that can support several digital asset functions.
“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.”
Brahimi added that supporting the complete Hedera technology stack enables institutions to use “native tokenization, smart contracts, and custody capabilities within the same regulated infrastructure they already trust.”
Taurus and The Hashgraph Association framed the integration as a way to reduce vendor fragmentation. A bank that begins with HBAR custody could later add staking, tokenization or programmable products without selecting another infrastructure provider and completing a separate technical integration.
Micha Roon, head of engineering at The Hashgraph Group, said the single-platform model could remove technical barriers created by working with several vendors.
“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.”
The expected benefit remains a company assessment. Taurus did not publish figures showing how much time, cost or compliance work banks could save. Kamal Youssefi, president of The Hashgraph Association, said regulated institutions “can now enter the Web3 space with ease and confidence.” The statement describes the organizations’ expectation rather than verified customer adoption.
Taurus’ official platform materials describe a modular system for custody, tokenization and trading. Its website identifies State Street, Deutsche Bank and CACEIS among institutions using or partnering with its technology, supporting the announcement’s claim that the provider already serves major regulated firms.
The integration arrives as financial institutions assess digital asset products under changing legal frameworks in Europe and the U.S.
The Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation has established common rules for covered crypto businesses across the European Union. In the U.S., lawmakers continue debating the CLARITY Act and how oversight of digital assets should be divided between federal regulators.
Kamal Youssefi, president of The Hashgraph Association, linked the Taurus integration to those policy developments.
“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.”
His statement reflects the association’s position. MiCA does not automatically approve every product developed through Hedera, while the CLARITY Act remains subject to the U.S. legislative process.
Youssefi also described the integration as a step toward broader institutional use of Hedera.
“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.”
Evidence of wider adoption will depend on named bank launches, transaction data and disclosed tokenized products.
Taurus and The Hashgraph Association announced their strategic partnership before completing the wider integration. The initial work brought HBAR custody and staking to Taurus-PROTECT and added Hedera Token Service support to Taurus-CAPITAL.
Taurus then joined The Hashgraph Association’s Global Membership Program in July 2026. The smart contract phase broadens the earlier work beyond holding HBAR and issuing native tokens.
It also gives tokenization engines, stablecoin issuers and fund administrators a route to build Hedera products while using Taurus for custody and institutional controls.
Notably, crypto.news reported, Taurus integrated P2P.org staking infrastructure in June. The arrangement allows financial institutions to access proof-of-stake networks while retaining custody and control inside their existing Taurus workflows.
The announcement confirms technical availability, not demand. Taurus and The Hashgraph Association did not disclose pricing, the number of clients that requested Hedera support or the value of HBAR and tokenized assets currently held through the platform.
The next verified developments will be live products from Taurus clients. These could include a tokenized bond, regulated fund, stablecoin or another programmable asset deployed through Hedera’s smart contract service. Public transaction data and named institutional issuers would provide clearer evidence that the integration is moving beyond infrastructure readiness.
Crypto.news reported that Hedera added ERC-3643 support to its Asset Tokenization Studio and that KAIO expanded institutional fund offerings on the network. Those projects show an existing tokenization ecosystem, but Taurus must still convert its banking reach into disclosed Hedera deployments.
