DAF 2025: Colossus will be present with its Institutional Hub
The 2024 perspective
2024 has been a pivotal year for digital assets, driven by major regulatory advances and renewed market confidence. The newly installed Trump administration in the U.S. has maintained a crypto-friendly stance, with ongoing policy discussions and Senator Cynthia Lummis advocating for a national Bitcoin reserve. The SEC’s approval of spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs has unlocked new institutional investment opportunities, while global regulators have advanced clearer frameworks—MiCA in the EU, stablecoin oversight in Hong Kong, and new digital asset bills in the U.S. These developments fueled a significant market rally, marking a strong recovery from the turbulence of 2022.
Institutional players in digital asset custody and staking face distinct yet interconnected challenges. Custody customers seek solutions that support a broad range of assets, enhance asset productivity, and offer comprehensive management tools. Meanwhile, staking providers struggle with access to institutional delegation due to a lack of robust validation mechanisms within custody platforms. Despite the market’s estimated $550 billion potential, existing solutions remain fragmented and inadequate.
Consider a European asset management firm holding a substantial allocation of digital assets in a regulated custody solution. While their custodian ensures secure storage and regulatory compliance, they cannot access staking rewards without moving assets to a third-party validator, which introduces operational complexity and counterparty risk. The firm’s portfolio remains underutilized, generating no yield despite holding assets that could earn passive income.
Colossus Digital: Empowering Institutions
Colossus, the team behind the Institutional Hub, will be present at the event to connect with partners and clients, actively working to address key challenges in the digital asset space. As a leading institutional player, Colossus is set to kick off 2025 by introducing major advancements to its platform, further strengthening its role in the industry.
As a regulated Italian company, Colossus is bridging critical gaps in the market with its Institutional Hub—a state-of-the-art B2B marketplace that seamlessly integrates staking from custody solutions such as Fireblocks, Ledger Enterprise, and Dfns across 25+ chains. This platform empowers validators to scale their operations while enabling custody customers, including asset managers and exchanges, to securely and efficiently stake and manage their digital assets—all in one unified solution.
Our Institutional Hub, is a B2B platform, tailored for the institutional needs of the market that requires a solution which offers:
Regulation: As an OAM-regulated entity, Colossus ensures compliance, providing institutions with a legally sound and secure way to engage in staking.
Safety: Thanks to the new “Transaction Lens” tool, which enables the verification of the transaction and its hash
Seamless Infrastructure: By connecting custodians with validators, Colossus streamlines staking processes, enabling institutions to earn staking rewards without technical complexities. Institutions no longer need to manually delegate assets or manage multiple vendor relationships—Colossus acts as a single point of access.
Optimized Capital Efficiency: With Colossus, institutions can maximize returns on digital assets while ensuring that their holdings remain secure within a compliant, regulated custody environment. This eliminates the need to compromise between security and yield, ensuring that institutions can participate in staking without moving assets outside of their designated custodial frameworks.
Eliminating Market Fragmentation: Our platform unifies validators, custodians, and institutional investors, creating a single access point that simplifies institutional staking and fosters a more mature digital asset ecosystem.
The Evolution of Digital Assets: A Preview of the Digital Asset Forum (DAF)
Institutional adoption of digital assets requires collaboration, knowledge sharing, and access to best-in-class solutions. Events such as the Digital Asset Forum (DAF) 2025 serve as a critical platform where institutional investors, regulators, and blockchain pioneers can connect, exchange insights, and explore innovative solutions.
The Digital Asset Forum (DAF) stands as a cornerstone gathering for professionals, and decision-makers in the digital asset industry. The forum's significance is underscored by the participation of institutions managing €1.1 trillion in Assets under Management (AuM), creating an essential intersection of institutional investment, cutting-edge technology, and industry expertise.
Since its inception in Barcelona in 2018, the European Blockchain Convention—which organizes the Digital Asset Forum—has emerged as Europe's foremost blockchain conference. Recognized for its ability to unite industry experts, emerging companies, and technological pioneers, the event creates a vibrant environment for knowledge exchange, partnership building, and exploration of blockchain, cryptocurrency, and digital asset opportunities.
The 2025 edition of the Digital Asset Forum introduces enhanced features with broader programming and relationship-building opportunities. Two distinct stages will host an unprecedented number of speakers and panel discussions, examining current developments and breakthroughs in digital assets. Participants can pre-arrange meetings in a specialized 1:1 networking zone, participate in high-level networking during an exclusive VIP evening, and interact with an expanded community of LPs, GPs, and institutional investors. Set in an enhanced venue with greater exhibition space, DAF 2025 creates unprecedented opportunities for education, connection, and innovation.
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Institutional engagement in digital assets depends on secure, compliant, and scalable solutions. Colossus is leading the way in bridging traditional finance and decentralized finance, empowering institutions to optimize capital efficiency without compromising security.