Following the strategic partnership with the DFINITY Foundation on September 26, 2023, Taurus is pleased to announce that it has successfully integrated ICP, the Internet Computer’s native token, into Taurus-PROTECT;
Taurus’ integration covers all ICP staking features, making it the most advanced ICP integration in the world;
Several of Taurus’ banking partners, including AMINA Bank and Bank Syz, will be able to offer ICP to their clients.
Geneva-Zurich, May 30, 2024 - Following the announcement of a strategic partnership with the DFINITY Foundation on September 26, 2023 (for details, please click: Taurus Partners with DFINITY Foundation to Add Custody Support for ICP), Taurus is pleased to announce that it has successfully integrated Internet Computer’s native token ICP and its staking capabilities into Taurus’ digital asset custody platform Taurus-PROTECT.
This is the world’s most advanced ICP integration to date, enabling financial institutions to provide their customers with appropriate access to the ICP’s native tokens.
The Internet Computer is a fully decentralized third-generation blockchain and encrypted cloud infrastructure. The ICP network consists of node providers hosted in independent data centers around the world. Since the network went online in May 2021, the Internet Computer has never experienced downtime. The total number of transactions processed per day has increased from 95 million in 2022 to 490 million in 2023, a year-on-year increase of 415%.
Taurus’ banking partners will be able to offer ICP tokens to their clients immediately, and Taurus’ product and engineering teams have built features that enable financial institutions to leverage all ICP staking mechanisms, including the most advanced ones, in a simple, streamlined manner.
DFINITY and Taurus are also pleased to announce that several Taurus partners including Bank Syz, AMINA Bank, and Capital Union Bank will be able to begin offering ICP tokens to their end customers.
“We are excited to be working with Taurus, and we look forward to Taurus-PROTECT providing efficient and secure access to ICP tokens and projects tokenizing on our protocol,” said Paul Meeusen, Vice President of Partnerships.
Valérie Noël, Head of Trading at Bank Syz, said: “We are pleased to further enhance our digital asset offering with the powerful Taurus-PROTECT custody platform and look forward to incorporating ICP into our offering. This collaboration demonstrates our commitment to providing our clients with cutting-edge solutions in the rapidly evolving digital asset space in a secure and reliable manner.”
Lamine Brahimi, Managing Partner and Co-founder of Taurus, said: “Our team has delivered the most advanced ICP integration in the industry to date, and our banking partners, such as AMINA Bank and Bank Syz, will be able to provide their clients with easy access to ICP tokens and staking capabilities, thereby enhancing their digital asset portfolios.”
About the DFINITY Foundation
The DFINITY Foundation is a non-profit organization comprised of leading cryptographers, computer scientists, and distributed computing experts. Its mission is to transform cloud computing to a fully decentralized state. It used its experience to create the Internet Computer and is currently a major contributor to the network.
For more information, visit: dfinity.org.
About Syz Group
Syz Group is a family owned and managed Swiss financial group focused on superior long-term investment performance, sound risk management and personalized service to its clients.
Rooted in a family with centuries of entrepreneurial experience, the Group was co-founded in 1996 by Eric Syz, who still leads the company today together with his two sons and a team of industry experts. The Syz Group is stable and secure, holding a significant stake, approximately twice the Swiss regulatory requirement.
The Group serves clients in three main areas:
Bank Syz offers private clients a real alternative to traditional Swiss private banking;
Syz Capital offers investors the opportunity to invest alongside the Syz family in hard-to-access alternative investments such as private markets;
Syz Asset Management invests assets of primarily Swiss institutional investors in bonds and money market instruments.
Syz’s clients share the group’s long-term vision and commitment to creating sustainable wealth for the future.
For more information, visit Syzgroup.com.
About Taurus SA
Taurus SA is a Swiss fintech company founded in April 2018 that provides enterprise-grade digital asset infrastructure for issuing, custodial and trading any digital asset, including cryptocurrencies, tokenized assets, NFTs and digital currencies.
Taurus is a global leader in banking, trusted by all types of financial institutions: systemic banks, universal banks, online banks, crypto banks, private banks and broker-dealers.
Taurus also operates a marketplace for private assets and tokenized securities, Taurus SA is a securities firm supervised and regulated by FINMA, and TDX is an organized trading facility operated by Taurus.
About Taurus’ Platform and Products
Depending on their business model, strategy and risk tolerance, Taurus’ clients can seamlessly manage cryptocurrencies including staking, digitize and tokenize any type of asset in any standard end-to-end manner and handle the digital currency of their choice.
Taurus’ product portfolio includes Taurus-PROTECT™, Europe’s leading secure storage solution currently used by more than 30 financial institutions and corporations, and Taurus-CAPITAL™, which allows clients to issue and manage tokenized assets on public and private blockchains, as well as interact with any smart contract.
TDX™, the regulated digital asset marketplace, is connected to Taurus-PROTECT™ and Taurus-CAPITAL™, and all products leverage Taurus’ blockchain node infrastructure, Taurus-EXPLORER™, which provides a unified API and reliable broadcasting algorithm to enable secure interaction with blockchain networks.
For more information, visit: taurushq.com and for more details, visit: t-dx.com.
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