Everstake and Colossus Digital Partner to Bring Custody-Controlled Staking to Institutions

As institutional participation in Proof-of-Stake networks continues to mature, the focus has shifted from access to infrastructure. The next challenge is building staking models that align with institutional governance, custody policies, and regulatory standards.

In this context, Everstake and Colossus Digital are partnering to advance custody-controlled, policy-driven staking, bringing institutional control and blockchain participation closer together.

A Bridge Between Custody and Staking

The real challenge for institutions isn’t connectivity but operating on-chain without stepping outside established custody and compliance frameworks.

Through this partnership, Colossus Digital’s Institutional Hub integrates Everstake’s globally distributed validator network, enabling organizations to take part in network validation directly from custody platforms such as Fireblocks, Ledger Enterprise, or Dfns.

This model provides institutions with full visibility and control over their assets, while also adding flexibility across networks.

Custody providers don’t need to integrate each staking network natively—clients can leverage the Colossus–Everstake connection to delegate assets on demand, from the same custody environment they already use.

Each staking action remains governed by existing custody policies, approval layers, and security parameters, ensuring that all activity stays within institutional frameworks while maintaining on-chain transparency.

What is Colossus Digital

Colossus Digital connects custody and staking providers through its Institutional Hub, enabling banks, asset managers, funds, foundations, exchanges, and other financial institutions to stake 20+ Proof-of-Stake networks directly from their preferred custody solution.

Why It Matters

Institutions already operate under strict governance, audit, and risk-management policies. Most existing staking solutions require compromising those structures: shifting control, creating new points of failure, or duplicating operational oversight.

The Everstake and Colossus Digital partnership resolves that by combining Colossus Digital’s custody-agnostic orchestration layer with Everstake’s enterprise-grade validator infrastructure. Together, they enable a fully governed, auditable staking process that aligns with existing compliance frameworks and custody workflows.

“Institutions need staking infrastructure that is both secure and institution-ready. By connecting Everstake’s high-performance validator network with our Institutional Hub, we make it possible for institutions to participate in staking without operational or compliance trade-offs,” said Lorenzo Barbantini Scanni, CRO & Co-Founder of Colossus Digital.

Why It’s Secure

Recent incidents in the blockchain space have demonstrated that custodial staking models can introduce new points of failure, particularly when API connections or operational wallets are utilized for delegation.

The Colossus Digital × Everstake integration avoids these risks through a non-custodial, policy-gated design that keeps full control with the institution at every step.

Key security principles behind the partnership

• Full custody retention: Client assets and private keys remain entirely within the institution’s custody platform and are never accessible to Colossus or Everstake.
• Non-custodial architecture: Colossus Institutional Hub functions purely as an orchestration layer. It does not hold keys, operate wallets, or initiate withdrawals.
• Policy-gated execution: Every transaction requires custodian-level authorization, governed by multi-signature policies, allow lists, and hardware confirmations.
• Least-privilege integrations: Connections are read-only by default, with limited write permissions granted only where strictly necessary for transaction preparation.
• Immutable audit trail: All activity is logged transparently and can be independently audited. Institutions have a one-click kill switch to deactivate integrations if needed immediately.

This model ensures that even in the event of a compromised integration, assets remain entirely under client custody, with no exposure to counterparty risk.

“For too long, institutions have faced a difficult choice: yield or control. This partnership with Colossus Digital finally eliminates that dilemma,” said Bohdan Opryshko, Co-Founder & COO at Everstake. “By embedding our secure, enterprise-grade validator infrastructure within their Institutional Hub, we ensure that staking is custody-controlled, policy-driven, and fully integrated with the financial standards institutions already rely on. It’s the compliant bridge institutions need to confidently enter the staking ecosystem.”

Together, Colossus Digital and Everstake combine non-custodial security with institutional-grade operational controls, allowing organizations to engage in staking under the same governance, risk, and compliance principles that already guide their custody operations.

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