The Core Foundation and Hex Trust have expanded their partnership to provide institutional Bitcoin staking services across the Asia-Pacific and MENA regions.
The collaboration combines Core’s dual staking technology with Hex Trust’s regulated management platform. Core provides Bitcoin staking services, and Hext Trust is a crypto custody service for Hong Kong institutions.
Institutional appeal: Compliance yields
Banks, family offices, and institutional investors can time lock Bitcoin to support their core networks. At the same time, they can maintain full custody and earn rewards for the protocol. By integrating Core’s staking technology into your HEX Trust account, clients can bet on BTC, core, or both without transferring their assets to an unregulated platform.
Values are clear to the institution. Keep your acclimated and earn your harvest with idle bitcoin while keeping your custody safe. Rewards are issued from blockchain activities rather than off-chain programs.
Core has established itself as a large, Bitcoin-centric defi ecosystem. Bridges Bitcoin security to EVM-compatible programmerism. Recent data shows that over $500 million total debt value is locked, with over 7,000 Timelock BTC protecting the network, with around 75% of the Bitcoin Mining Hash Power supporting it. These numbers highlight why custodians and institutions are paying attention.
Hex Trust says that the regulatory foothold at APAC and MENA could encourage greater compliance flows to BTCFI or decentralized finance based on Bitcoin security. Asset managers can use time-locked Bitcoin as a source of regulated yields while maintaining relationships with custody.
Analysts say the key challenges are scale and operational control. Institutions require predictable compensation, clear custody segregation and strong accounting before allocating important Bitcoin. By combining Core’s yield layer with Hex Trust’s compliance infrastructure, this partnership could shift institutional Bitcoin engagement from passive retention to active yield-focused strategies. Security and regulatory comfort remains central to adoption.
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