Company and ownership
Taurus SA, a Geneva company founded in April 2018, sells digital asset infrastructure to banks and other regulated firms. It lists 14 offices and opened its first US office in New York in October 2025 under Zack Bender. Taurus says it has more than 40 clients.
Three co-founders lead the company. Sébastien Dessimoz and Lamine Brahimi are managing partners and Oren-Olivier Puder is chairman; the leadership page names no chief executive. Arab Bank Switzerland led an $11 million Series A in April 2020 alongside the Tezos Foundation, and the co-founders remained majority shareholders. Credit Suisse then led a $65 million Series B in February 2023 with Deutsche Bank, Pictet Group, Cedar Mundi Ventures, Arab Bank Switzerland and Investis, which Dessimoz described as a minority equity round.
Custody model and security
Taurus describes itself as a technology provider rather than a custodian. Banks using Taurus-PROTECT keep their keys in FIPS 140-2 Level 3 hardware security modules that they own and operate, on their own premises if they choose. Most banking clients sign with HSMs, although the platform also supports multi-party computation. Cold storage can sit behind a hardware data diode or a full physical air gap. Approval rules are verified inside a trusted execution environment.
PROTECT runs on premises, in a hybrid setup or as a managed service hosted by Taurus, where the client still controls its keys. Taurus keeps its own infrastructure in Tier III and Tier IV data centers in Switzerland and commissions at least 10 external security tests a year; it reported 11 such assessments in 2025. Deloitte completed the company's fourth consecutive ISAE 3402 Type II audit in May 2025, and Taurus holds ISO/IEC 27001 certification.
Regulation and licenses
Taurus SA has held a FINMA securities firm license since 2021. The license covers trading and brokerage, market making, acting as an issuing house, running the TDX organized trading facility, and the storage and custody of digital assets and securities. Taurus SA is a member of esisuisse, the Swiss deposit protection scheme, which covers cash deposits up to CHF 100,000 per client but not crypto assets or securities in custody. TDX clients' digital assets sit in omnibus accounts, while Taurus-PRIME clients get segregated holdings.
In the EU, Taurus (Europe) Ltd of Nicosia appears in the CySEC register under investment firm license no. 465/26, dated March 9, 2026. It covers MiFID services, tokenized DLT instruments included, with EU passporting planned. Taurus lists its MiCA license as pending.
Products and integrations
PROTECT sits beside Taurus-CAPITAL for tokenization and Taurus-PRIME for trading. Taurus-NETWORK lets member institutions pledge collateral and settle with each other; participants include Circle Mint, Crypto.com, Paymium, TRM Labs and, since June 2026, FalconX. Taurus-EXPLORER runs the node layer, with one API across more than 30 blockchains. PROTECT itself supports more than 45 blockchains, permissioned networks among them, and its 2025 additions included Base, BNB Smart Chain, Tron, Dogecoin, Canton Network and Bittensor. Staking runs through partners such as Figment, Everstake, Blockdaemon, Meria and P2P.org.
Clients named on the Taurus website include State Street, Deutsche Bank, CACEIS, KBC, Pictet, Swissquote, Zand, AMINA Bank and Misyon Bank. Developers get an API reference and SDKs in Java, Go, Python and TypeScript, and PROTECT connects to at least 10 core banking systems, Temenos among them.
