Core Foundation Integrates with Digital Asset Custodian Ceffu, Enabling Institutional Bitcoin (BTC) Staking

The Core Foundation on Tuesday announced an integration with digital asset custodian Ceffu, enabling institutional clients to directly stake Bitcoin BTC/USD and CORE CORE/USD

The Core Foundation has announced an integration with digital asset custodian Ceffu, enabling institutional clients to directly stake Bitcoin (BTC/USD) and CORE tokens from within their custody accounts.

What Happened: The partnership brings Core’s Dual Staking model to Ceffu’s platform, creating a seamless path for institutions to earn yield on idle BTC without transferring assets off-platform.

Institutions can now access and manage Bitcoin and CORE staking positions through a single interface, leveraging Core’s protocol to increase their Bitcoin staking yields. The deeper the ratio of CORE tokens to BTC tokens staked, the higher the yield.

“Integrating Core’s Dual Staking into Ceffu’s robust custody platform is a testament to the growing institutional demand for yield-bearing Bitcoin strategies,” said Brendon Sedo, Initial Contributor to Core.

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The integration of Core’s Bitcoin staking framework, launched in 2024, allows BTC to function as a productive asset within decentralized finance, showcasing the potential of interoperability and new use cases for Bitcoin.

Since its launch, Core has scaled significantly, with over 45 million CORE tokens and 4,352 BTC (around $380 million) being staked using the Dual Staking model.

“We are excited to empower our institutional clients with access to this innovative yield-generating product within the secure and compliant environment that Ceffu provides,” said Ian Loh, CEO of Ceffu.

Core supports more than 120 decentralized applications with $450 million in total value locked (TVL), making it Bitcoin’s most active PoS and EVM-compatible sidechain. It also claims to have 76% of Bitcoin mining hash power contributing to its network security.

For Ceffu, a custodian serving global institutional clients with a focus on security and compliance, the integration adds a compliant, yield-generating product to its custody offering.

As BTC’s price action continues to be closely watched by market participants, this collaboration brings closer alignment between the security-focused custody sector and the high-yield potential of emerging Bitcoin DeFi protocols, signaling growing institutional comfort with on-chain yield models.