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Taurus, a Swiss digital asset infrastructure provider backed by Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse, has integrated two of its flagship products with the Solana network. The move should encourage global financial institutions and developers to build tokenized asset solutions.
The integrated products are the custody platform Taurus-PROTECT and the digital issuance and tokenization platform Taurus-CAPITAL. The latter allows users to issue and manage NFTs and tokenized assets on public and private blockchains, and to interact with any smart contract.
Taurus-PROTECT allows banks and issuers to custody and stake any Solana-native tokenized assets. At the same time, Taurus-CAPITAL provides them with token extensions to issue programmable tokenized assets on this massively popular blockchain.
Jürgen Hofbauer, Head of Global Strategic Partnerships at Taurus, commented that the integration allows their banking and enterprise clients to access an advanced platform to tokenize various assets. These include equity, debt, structured products, funds, tokenized deposits, and CBDCs. At the same time, the clients minimize costs and operational complexities, he said.
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The press release shared with Cryptonews noted that Solana is an ideal platform for tokenized asset issuance and management thanks to its scalability, speed, and low transaction fees. The popular network’s features enable efficient and flexible solutions for institutional clients.
Solana is the second-biggest blockchain by total value locked (TVL) with $9 billion, behind Ethereum’s $57.8 billion. It hit its highest point of $12.19 billion in January this year.
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Hofbauer commented that the company’s integration with Solana is “a significant milestone for Taurus.” The blockchain’s scalability and cost-efficiency are “unparalleled in the industry.”
“By leveraging Solana’s high throughput and low latency, Taurus clients can achieve unprecedented levels of efficiency, enabling seamless automation of financial workflows and payment processes,” said the press release.
Meanwhile, Bitwise, Canary, 21Shares, VanEck, and Grayscale have all filed to set up spot US Solana ETFs, boosting investor interest.
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Meanwhile, founded in 2018, Taurus SA is a securities firm supervised and regulated by the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA). It provides digital asset infrastructure to issue, custody, and trade any digital asset. It also operates a marketplace for private assets and tokenized securities.
Taurus’ products include the storage solution Taurus-PROTECT, the digital issuance and tokenization platform Taurus-CAPITAL, the blockchain node infrastructure Taurus-EXPLORER, and the regulated marketplace for digital assets TDX.
The Solana integration is the latest among the news the company has shared. In January this year, the Hashgraph Association (THA) and Taurus announced a strategic partnership to drive global adoption of Hedera’s distributed ledger technology (DLT), focusing on fast-growing regions.
The company had a busy last year. In March, Taurus partnered with Turkey’s Misyon Bank, so that the neobank could leverage its digital asset custody and tokenization technology. After this, in May, it announced the opening of its Vancouver office, marking its expansion into the North American market.
In August, amid a growing institutional demand for digital asset services, the major US financial services provider State Street partnered with Taurus to expand its offerings in the digital asset space. The following month, Taurus joined hands with the Swiss equity tokenization platform Aktionariat AG. These two teams worked to create the first regulated secondary market for tokenized shares of small and midsize enterprises (SMEs).
Then, in October, the firm integrated Chainlink’s platform to enable faster time-to-market for any class of tokenized assets on any blockchain. And in November, the Swiss-headquartered investment firm ISP Securities Ltd. partnered with Taurus to boost its digital asset offering.
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