Blockdaemon now integrated with the Colossus Digital Institutional Hub
Blockdaemon integrates with Colossus Digital’s Institutional Hub, enabling custody-native, compliant staking for regulated financial institutions.
Introduction
As regulated institutions face growing pressure to stake digital assets without compromising custody controls, Colossus Digital is pleased to announce a strategic integration with Blockdaemon, one of the world’s most trusted providers of institutional-grade blockchain infrastructure. Blockdaemon’s validator services are now available through the Institutional Hub by Colossus, strengthening the Hub’s role as the infrastructure layer connecting regulated institutions to secure, compliant, and operationally efficient staking across multiple chains and custody providers.
About Colossus Digital
Colossus Digital is a technical infrastructure provider bridging custody and on-chain yield, allowing Asset Holders to invest directly from their custody solutions, without requiring new integrations.Through the Institutional Hub, banks, asset managers, funds, foundations, exchanges, and other financial organizations can stake over 30+ Proof of Stake assets directly from their preferred custodian, including Fireblocks, Ledger Enterprise and Dfns.
The mission is simple: to bridge the gap between asset holders and staking providers, enabling institutions to access on-chain yield with the same security, control, and operational structure they expect in traditional finance.
About Blockdaemon
Blockdaemon is a global leader in institutional blockchain infrastructure, relied upon by financial institutions, custodians, and large-scale digital asset organizations.
Blockdaemon secures over $110B in digital assets for leading financial institutions and offers a secure, scalable foundation for staking, node operations, APIs, and wallet services across more than 60 blockchain protocols.
Since 2017, Blockdaemon has enabled institutions to deploy, secure, and scale blockchain operations—without complexity.
Why this Integration Matters for Institutions
One of the most important challenges limiting financial institutions’ participation in digital assets is the need for a compliant and secure infrastructure that enables on-chain yield generation while respecting internal transaction policies and other regulatory parameters. The requirements of retail users and institutional entities are fundamentally different, and today’s market infrastructure does not fully address these institutional needs.
Most custody providers either do not natively support asset delegation for staking or only offer partial support. As a result, the ecosystem remains fragmented, operationally inefficient, and unsuitable for institutional workflows.
For example, some institutional custody solutions support native staking only on a limited number of chains and with a restricted set of validators. This limits a financial institution’s ability to diversify its staking strategy and prevents it from generating yield across all assets held in custody, as some assets cannot be staked natively. In other cases, custody solutions do not support native staking at all.
For financial institutions such as banks or funds, it is essential to keep assets within custody in order to adhere to internal transaction policies and security parameters. Moving assets outside the custodial environment, or changing established transaction signing processes, introduces significant security, compliance, and operational risks.
The integration of Blockdaemon into the Institutional Hub by Colossus directly solves this problem, creating a streamlined, custody-native workflow designed specifically for regulated financial institutions.
Colossus acts as the connectivity layer, providing the interface through which clients initiate and manage staking delegations. Through the Institutional Hub UI, asset holders can delegate to Blockdaemon validators while maintaining their existing internal controls—policy rules, approval flows, and signing processes—entirely within their current custody setup.
This partnership also closes a significant coverage gap: institutions can now stake assets through the Hub even if Blockdaemon does not yet support them natively via its own APIs, expanding staking possibilities without requiring new engineering work or integrations on the client side.
Crucially, institutions continue to hold a direct commercial relationship with Blockdaemon for agreements, fees, and service delivery. Colossus simply removes operational friction, centralizes workflows, and enables diversification across multiple providers through a single interface.
This partnership brings the following key benefits for financial institutions:
Operational efficiency: Stake across multiple chains directly from your existing custody stack, with no engineering lift.
Compliance alignment: Unified dashboards, controlled workflows, and transparent insights into performance and fees.
Provider diversification: Blockdaemon joins a growing set of institutional-grade validators available through the Hub.
Enterprise reliability: Blockdaemon’s high availability validator infrastructure supports fiduciaries responsible for significant AUM.
A New Standard for Institutional Staking Infrastructure
This integration is built on a custody-first security model, ensuring that all transaction signing, policy enforcement, and controls remain entirely within the client’s custodial environment - an essential requirement for regulated entities.
Institutions can now delegate digital assets to Blockdaemon directly from environments they already trust:
Fireblocks
Ledger Enterprise
Dfns
Offline signer workflows, for isolated and policy-controlled signing
This approach eliminates new integrations or operational overhead, ensuring governance remains intact.
Colossus enhances this workflow with consolidated, audit-ready reporting across delegations and rewards, solving a key pain point for accounting, compliance, and risk teams that require transparent, verifiable records.
For Blockdaemon, this integration expands market reach by enabling service delivery through custody setups already adopted by institutional clients. At the same time, Colossus customers benefit from Blockdaemon’s enterprise-grade validator performance, gaining broader asset coverage, multichain visibility, and a unified interface for managing staked, unstaked, locked, and withdrawable assets across providers.
The Institutional Hub: The Gateway to Onchain Yield for Institutional Participants
The Institutional Hub by Colossus serves as the connective layer between asset holders, custody providers, and top-tier staking validators, creating a unified ecosystem for secure and compliant digital asset yield strategies.
By aggregating custody, assets, and staking providers into one platform, the Hub offers:
A single interface to manage all staking relationships
Custody-native transaction flows and governance controls
Multichain visibility and actionable operational insights
Provider choice without integration complexity
With Blockdaemon now part of the network, the Hub strengthens its position as the most efficient, secure, and scalable gateway for institutional staking.
Through this integration, Institutional Hub users gain:
Best-in-class validator uptime
Secure and compliant infrastructure
Broad multichain support
Transparent performance and fee metrics
All delivered through a single, custody-integrated interface.
Conclusion
As institutional adoption of digital assets accelerates, the need for secure, compliant, and operationally efficient staking infrastructure continues to grow.
“Blockdaemon is excited to be integrated with the Colossus Digital Institutional Hub, offering institutional clients secure, compliant, and performant staking rewards on the world’s leading protocols. Through this integration, clients can earn directly from their chosen custody solution with Blockdaemon’s industry-leading blockchain infrastructure through a familiar, secure user interface.”
- Katie DiMento, VP of Marketing, Blockdaemon
“This integration with Blockdaemon is a pivotal moment for institutional staking. It reinforces Colossus Digital’s mission to be the secure and compliant gateway to on-chain yield. By integrating Blockdaemon’s enterprise-grade validator infrastructure directly into the Institutional Hub, we are eliminating operational friction and ensuring regulated institutions can access the best providers while maintaining their strict custody controls, governance, and existing workflows. We are building the future of institutional finance, one compliant connection at a time.”
— Lorenzo Barbantini Scanni, Co-Founder and CRO, Colossus Digital
The integration of Blockdaemon into the Institutional Hub represents a significant step forward—expanding provider choice, enhancing custody native workflows, and reinforcing Colossus Digital’s mission: to make institutional on-chain participation as seamless and controlled as traditional financial operations.
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