CIP-0077: Add Taurus as an SV of Weight 5

Abstract

Add Taurus as a Super Validator of weight 5 as proposed in the detailed deliverables list below.

Taurus commits to contribute to the growth of the Canton Network ecosystem and speed up its adoption within the financial sector by integrating Canton Network within its platform, allowing its banking clients to use and build on Canton Network.

About the applicant

Taurus SA is a technology company, founded in April 2018, that provides enterprise-grade digital asset infrastructure to issue, custody, and trade any digital assets: cryptocurrencies, tokenized assets, and digital currencies.

It is a global leader in the banking segment, entrusted by the full spectrum of financial institutions across regions: systemic banks, universal banks, online banks, crypto-banks, private banks, and broker-dealers. Clients include CACEIS, Deutsche Bank, State Street.

Taurus is a regulated technology provider: it holds a securities firm license from the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) and operates since 2021 once of the first organized trading facility to trade tokenized securities: T-DX

Taurus meets the highest security, regulatory, risk and compliance standards: ISO27001, ISAE3402 Type 2, FINMA licenses, HSM FIPS 140-2 Level 3, DORA compliant

Taurus employs around 100 people, the majority being highly qualified PhDs (incl. Cryptography, computer networking, distributed systems, physics), engineers and blockchain & security experts

Taurus led some of the world’s most significant innovations in digital assets: 1st digital asset custody standards (2019 DACS), 1st open source MPC-CMP implementation, 1st open source private token standard on public blockchains, leading contributor to CMTAT tokenization standards for equity and debt.

Taurus is backed by Arab Bank Switzerland, Deutsche Bank, Lombard Odier, Pictet, UBS

Chris Zuehlke

Sep 12, 2025

Cumberland DRW votes in favor

(Looks like the vote has already gotten enough votes to pass, but sharing our vote nonetheless)

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Tradeweb votes in favor

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Five North in Favor

On Tue, Sep 9, 2025 at 9:05 PM Luca Toscani <luca@...> wrote:

Orb 1 votes in favor

Luca Toscani

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Liberty City Ventures votes in favor of CIP-0077

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Hello Super Validator Node Owners,

Please find ready for vote: CIP-0077: Add Taurus as a Super Validator of weight 5

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Digital Asset - SV Endorser

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End-product	Description/requirements	Deadline	Weight Earned
CUSTODY Integration w/ Taurus-EXPLORER + Integration w/ Taurus-PROTECT	Custody (including nodes & indexing) support of Canton Network Token Standard	+180 days from CIP approval	1
Acceleration Bonus	For Custody +0 Bonus if delivered +180 Days from SV CIP Approval +2 Bonus if delivered +60 Days from SV CIP Approval Linear sliding scale between +60 and +180 days Example: If delivered in +120 days, Taurus is awarded +1 SV Weight • At least one Taurus customer must be live, having completed a transaction on MainNet	+180 days from CIP approval	2
Adoption Bonus	Category 1 • Per $1.5b of assets transferred Category 2 • For each approved participant (by the Tokenomics Committee), using Taurus to issue an asset >$1M TVL on Canton	+180 days from custody support going live	• 0.5 per live deployment under Category 1 or Category 2 • Max up to 2 in total

Yiannis Varelas

Sep 12, 2025

Five North in favor as well.

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On Fri, Sep 12, 2025 at 14:30 Chris Zuehlke via lists.sync.global <czuehlke=drwholdings.com@...> wrote:

Cumberland DRW votes in favor

(Looks like the vote has already gotten enough votes to pass, but sharing our vote nonetheless)

-----Original Message-----
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Tradeweb votes in favor

-----Original Message-----
From: cip-vote@... <cip-vote@...> On Behalf Of Yiannis Varelas
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2025 9:23 AM
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Five North in Favor

On Tue, Sep 9, 2025 at 9:05 PM Luca Toscani <luca@...> wrote:
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> Orb 1 votes in favor
>
> Luca Toscani
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> (650) 283-3681 | Telegram | LinkedIn
>
> From: cip-vote@... <cip-vote@...> on behalf of James Lang via lists.sync.global <james=libertycityventures.com@...>
> Date: Tuesday, September 9, 2025 at 10:50 AM
> To: cip-vote@... <cip-vote@...>
> Subject: Re: [cip-votes] CIP-0077: Add Taurus as a Super Validator of weight 5
>
> Liberty City Ventures votes in favor of CIP-0077
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> From: cip-vote@... <cip-vote@...> On Behalf Of DrAmandaLMartin via lists.sync.global
> Sent: Tuesday, September 9, 2025 1:28 PM
> To: cip-vote@...
> Subject: [cip-votes] CIP-0077: Add Taurus as a Super Validator of weight 5
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> Hello Super Validator Node Owners,
>
> Please find ready for vote: CIP-0077: Add Taurus as a Super Validator of weight 5
>
> 7RIDGE/C7 - SV Sponsor
> Digital Asset - SV Endorser
>
> All other operators vote please list:
> <SV Name> votes <in favor | not in favor>
>
>
>
>
>
>

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