Blockscape

Blockscape lets institutional clients choose how much control they keep over their staking setup. In non-custodial staking the client holds the keys to its tokens, and Blockscape runs the validators under service level agreements with monitoring and analytics. White-label staking lets a bank, broker or platform offer staking and restaking under its own brand on Blockscape infrastructure. Blockscape reports high validator effectiveness and a track record without a single slashing incident on its validators.

ChainNow is the turnkey service for institutions and platforms that want to launch, scale or resell staking and node operations. A client gets dedicated nodes, from a single setup to a full fleet, sees the performance data and leaves maintenance and upgrades to Blockscape. For version 3 of Lido, the staking company from Zug applied in November 2025 to run stVaults as a professional operator and listed data centers in Germany, Finland, Switzerland, Canada, France, Singapore and Australia.

Restaking reuses staked ether to secure further services, which brings additional rewards and additional slashing conditions. Blockscape is a node operator for EigenLayer and Symbiotic and runs the infrastructure for delegators who choose those protocols. Together with SSV and StakeWise the company built the Blockscape Vault, a liquid staking setup that splits each validator key across several independent operators.

In December 2023 the Swiss financial market supervisor FINMA published its practice on custodial staking of ether, and the law firm MME explained in an article when no banking license is needed. The custodian has to keep control of the withdrawal keys, even when an outside operator such as Blockscape holds the validator keys and runs the nodes. That operator signs a message in advance that fixes the withdrawal address of the customer, and it hands the custodian a pre-signed exit message. Blockscape welcomed the FINMA practice publicly and named MME as its legal adviser on the question.

Blockscape Finance AG is the Swiss company behind the brand and has its registered address in Zug. Volker Hahn founded Blockscape and leads it as chief executive, and Lukas Patrick Lehmann is also authorized to represent the company. Florian Lueffe is team lead and blockchain architect and spoke at the Ethereum Meetup in Berlin about staking from the point of view of an institution.