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Hedera has the rail. Taurus has built the institutional gateway. Now the question is who drives through it.
On August 5, @taurus_hq gave banks access to the full @Hedera technology stack.
On August 26, Taurus connected financial institutions to Swift’s blockchain-based Shared Ledger.
Two announcements, 21 days apart.
Now zoom out.
Start with Hedera.
Through Taurus, banks and regulated financial institutions can now:
• Custody HBAR
• Stake HBAR
• Issue native tokens via HTS
• Deploy smart contracts
• Build tokenized bonds, funds and stablecoins
All through one institutional platform and under the same due diligence and risk framework.
That matters because Taurus infrastructure is already used in production by more than 40 banks and regulated financial institutions, including Deutsche Bank, CACEIS and State Street.
@hedera isn’t being added to an isolated crypto platform.
It’s being integrated into infrastructure banks already use.
And @taurus_hq makes the institutional advantage clear.
Normally, adding another blockchain capability can mean:
New vendor
↓
New integration
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New risk assessment
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New procurement
With Hedera integrated into Taurus, expanding into new digital-asset products can become a configuration decision rather than another procurement project.
Now fast-forward 21 days.
Taurus announced that its connectivity to Swift’s blockchain-based Shared Ledger is complete and production-ready.
First live clients were expected within days, with the first DLT transactions facilitated through Taurus expected within weeks.
This is where the two announcements start forming a much bigger picture.
Taurus integrated Swift smart contracts with:
Taurus-PROTECT → Custody
Taurus-CAPITAL → Tokenization
The same institutional infrastructure Taurus clients already use to custody, issue and manage digital assets.
That makes Taurus the interesting layer in the middle.
Zoom out:
Hedera
HBAR • HTS • Smart Contracts • Tokenization
↕
Taurus
Custody • Staking • Issuance • Tokenization
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Financial Institutions
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Swift Shared Ledger
Tokenized Money • 24/7 Cross-Border Payments
Now the architecture becomes visible.
Important distinction:
This does NOT mean Swift is using Hedera.
There is currently no evidence that Hedera powers Swift’s Shared Ledger or that Hedera assets are being settled through it.
These are separate integrations.
The demonstrated connection between the two worlds is Taurus.
And that is actually the more interesting story.
Because this is how institutional blockchain adoption may happen.
Not:
“Banks abandon their existing infrastructure and move onchain.”
But:
Public DLTs
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Institutional middleware
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Banks
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Existing and emerging financial infrastructure
Different rails becoming accessible through increasingly connected infrastructure.
But there is still a missing link.
The infrastructure is ready. Now banks have to use it.
Taurus has opened an institutional gateway to Hedera while its Swift integration extends its connectivity into emerging financial infrastructure.
The next milestone is no longer simply technical.
It is commercial adoption.
The question now is:
Which financial institution will be first to launch a real commercial product natively on Hedera through Taurus?
A tokenized money-market fund?
A digital bond?
A stablecoin?
Another tokenized financial asset?
That is when this infrastructure starts translating into new institutional onchain activity on Hedera.
August 5: Taurus × Hedera
August 26: Taurus × Swift
Two separate integrations.
One institutional infrastructure provider sitting between public DLT infrastructure and the evolving financial system.
The rails are being connected.
But infrastructure alone doesn’t create adoption.
The next signal to watch is simple: Who actually uses it, and for what?
Custody is just the on-ramp.
Commercial usage is where the story really begins.
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Don’t doubt our builders. They’re creating a revolution!
$HBAR
Hedera is built to connect. 🌐
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🚨 HAPPY BIRTHDAY $HBAR!
Hedera Mainnet celebrates it's 8th Birthday TODAY!
Eight years ago, @hedera’s mainnet came to life. Today, $HBAR is powering payments, tokenisation, AI, enterprise applications and billions of transactions.
And it’s only getting started.🔥
Today marks 8 years since Hedera Mainnet launched.
Hedera changed my life.
When I started in this space, I had no contacts. Nothing. I was decent at research, so I started digging for crazy documents and slowly built a tiny following.
Back then, I primarily researched Ripple and XRP. In 2019, I stumbled across Hedera and started testing the network during open beta with the Daily Timestamp. I still have that sub-3,000 account.
Today, Hedera has nearly 10 million accounts.
The first interview I ever did in this industry was with Christian Hasker over six years ago, in July 2020.
When we started Genfinity in 2021, Hedera was the first network that gave us a chance. I'll always be grateful to Christian, Zenobia and everyone who believed in me.
I've had the opportunity to interview nearly every major builder across Hedera, many of them multiple times. I've interviewed Mance, Leemon and network leadership multiple times.
I'm also grateful for the opportunity to help break down silos between networks through initiatives like DeRec and to make introductions that created dialogue across the industry.
Those relationships eventually opened doors to conversations with organizations like Tata Communications, IBM, Deloitte, BCG, PwC, McLaren, Mondelēz and many others.
I've covered HederaCons, hackathons, demo days and more events than I can count.
And some of my favorite memories have been on the community side.
The entire @HashPack team has been incredible to work with. Together we've helped put on HederaWeen, Hashentines Day, Chainfinity and other massive community events.
I remember Marc and I back in 2021 spending hours on spreadsheets trying to make sure everyone was accounted for. We onboarded tens of thousands of wallets and worked our asses off bringing together NFT projects, builders and communities from across the network through these events.
Thank you to Marc and May.
There is no way I'd be doing what I'm doing today, interviewing leaders across different networks, enterprises and global institutions, without the foundation Hedera helped me build.
I believed in Hedera 6 years ago.
I believe in Hedera today.
I'm grateful for the people, the opportunities, the friendships and everyone who gave me, and continues to give me, a chance along the way.
Happy 8 years @Hedera.
Happy 8 years hedera-hashgraph:native.
Happy 8 years to the Hederians, HBARbarians and everyone who has been along for the ride.
It hasn't always been smooth. But I've watched Hedera go from outside the top 100 to #11 this past cycle, and I still believe it's one of the few networks positioned for meaningful, compliant adoption as this technology sees global adoption.
I'm hopeful for what's ahead and looking forward to continuing to tell the stories of the people building it.
Why Hedera's HBAR rally is quietly cutting fees in the token's own terms
@hedera prices its network fees in dollars rather than in its own token. A fee schedule fixes the USD cost of each operation, and an on-network file carries the current exchange rate.
Nodes convert the dollar fee into hedera-hashgraph:native at that rate, which refreshes roughly every hour. With HBAR trading near $0.076 after a 17% weekly climb, the same transaction now takes noticeably fewer HBAR than it did a week ago, while its dollar cost hasn't moved.
Overpay on a transaction and only the actual fee is charged, with the excess returned. Query payments stay where they land, though simple lookups like balance checks are free.