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June 13, 2025 – Colossus Digital, an institutional-grade staking and blockchain infrastructure provider based in Rome, today announced it has successfully closed a €1 million Seed investment from SBI Ven Capital. This strategic funding, made through SBI Ven Capital’s joint fund with Sygnum Bank and Azimut Group, is set to accelerate the rollout of Colossus Digital’s Institutional Hub, a pioneering two-sided B2B marketplace designed to bridge regulated custodians with top-tier validators for seamless staking and governance.
The digital asset landscape is rapidly maturing, with a significant surge in institutional interest; 86% of institutional investors either already have or plan to gain digital-asset exposure in 2025. This growing demand underscores the critical need for secure, compliant, and efficient infrastructure that allows institutions to generate yield from their custodial assets without compromising security or regulatory standards. Colossus Digital's Institutional Hub directly addresses this market gap by unlocking major capital currently held in custody that cannot natively interact with validator nodes.
The Institutional Hub is a cutting-edge platform facilitating secure, efficient, and compliant custodial staking and more. Key features include:
- Transaction Lens Tool Integration: Eliminates the need for blind signing, providing enhanced transparency for institutional transactions.
- Portfolio Overview: Offers a complete view of all assets across wallets, nodes, and unbonded funds.
- MPC (Multi-Party Computation): Allows for the setup of preferred MPC parameters to enhance the security of transaction submissions.
- Broad Chain Support: Connects regulated custodians with validators across 25+ Proof-of-Stake (PoS) chains, with an average integration time of 2-4 weeks for new chains.
"Colossus Digital has built the missing bridge between regulated custodians and the Yield Providers," said Eiichiro So, CEO & Managing Director, SBI Ven Capital. "Our €1 million commitment is a vote of confidence in their Institutional Hub and in the broader institutionalisation of digital assets."
The investment will be instrumental in scaling the Institutional Hub, enhancing custody-to-staking workflows, and expanding Colossus Digital’s global client base. Colossus Digital is dedicated to exclusively supporting PoS chains, fostering a sustainable, secure, and efficient Web3 environment.
Lorenzo Barbantini Scanni, Co-Founder & Chief Revenue Officer, Colossus Digital, added, “SBI’s backing accelerates our mission to make staking, governance, and interaction with Yield Providers as seamless as a custody transaction. Together we will deliver the tooling banks, asset managers, and exchanges need to capture on-chain yield, without compromising compliance.”
Beyond the Institutional Hub, Colossus Digital also offers innovative solutions like the Colossus Digital Decoder, an interface designed to simplify the understanding of raw transaction data across multiple blockchains, crucial for institutional players, developers, and auditors. The company prides itself on its commitment to regulatory compliance, holding a Regulated OAM license (PSV109) and an ISO 9001 certificate (MSC-9-1189).
Colossus Digital is poised to become the institutional standard for custody-native staking, guiding asset managers and custodians into the future of finance by providing the essential infrastructure to engage with digital assets compliantly and profitably.
About Colossus Digital:
Colossus Digital is an institutional-grade staking and blockchain infrastructure provider based in Rome, Italy. It offers a custody-native Institutional Hub—a B2B marketplace connecting regulated custodians with top-tier validators across 25+ PoS chains. The platform supports seamless staking, governance, and secure transaction execution, enabling institutions to unlock the power of their custodial assets in the Web3 space.
About SBI Ven Capital:
SBI Ven Capital, the Singapore subsidiary of Japanese financial services conglomerate SBI Group, operates an early-stage joint fund with Sygnum Bank and Azimut Group. This fund leverages the collective digital assets experience and network of its founding partners to accelerate the growth of promising digital asset companies across Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Australia, and Europe.
Compiled by CMO Intern team
