Taurus has integrated Everstake’s enterprise staking infrastructure into its Taurus‑PROTECT custody platform, creating a staking backbone that brings regulated on‑chain yield into a bank‑grade custody flow. Announced in December 2025, the integration pairs Taurus’s FINMA‑supervised custody with Everstake’s validator network (99.9% uptime), and routes staking rewards automatically back into clients’ custody accounts.
How the staking backbone changes custody UX
The integration keeps assets and private keys inside Taurus‑PROTECT throughout the staking lifecycle, removing the need to transfer holdings to third‑party staking providers. Staking is the act of locking Proof‑of‑Stake tokens to support network validation in exchange for rewards. Institutional clients initiate delegation requests inside the existing Taurus interface; Everstake’s validators perform block validation on designated networks — initially Solana, NEAR, Cardano and Tezos — and the resulting rewards are credited directly to the client’s regulated custody account.
This design converts a multi‑step manual process into a simplified, automated flow that reduces reconciliation work and consolidates reporting. By keeping delegation controls inside the custody UI, the operational surface area for auditors and compliance teams is smaller, and asset segregation remains explicit. The change removes a recurring friction point: the manual transfer and tracking of staking rewards across external wallets.
Operational, security and compliance implications
Everstake brings enterprise validator operations and a compliance posture that includes SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001:2022, GDPR and CCPA certifications, which complements Taurus’s regulated custody framework. The combined setup reduces counterparty and transfer risks by ensuring assets never leave custody and by providing auditable transaction flows. For product and compliance teams, that translates into fewer steps per operation and a more traceable transaction state for audits.
Remaining UX and operational risks are explicit and technical: slashing penalties, network outages and smart‑contract vulnerabilities persist as underlying blockchain hazards and require active mitigation. The regulatory treatment of staking rewards — notably tax rules — remains an evolving area that institutions must monitor. The integration therefore shifts much of the technical and operational burden to the custody‑plus‑validator model, but does not eliminate protocol‑level risk.
The Everstake integration embeds staking directly into Taurus‑PROTECT, lowering operational friction for institutions that want regulated access to PoS yields while preserving custody controls and auditability. For product teams and compliance officers this means a consolidated flow for delegation, reward collection and reporting without transferring assets outside regulated custody. Next verified milestone: Monitor expansion to additional PoS networks and any launch of regulated liquid staking derivative support, which Taurus and Everstake have signaled as logical subsequent steps.