Expanding Native ETH Staking on Ledger Enterprise with Luganodes

Introduction

Luganodes is now live as a native ETH staking provider inside Ledger Enterprise, expanding the validator options available to institutions staking ETH on the platform.

For institutions holding ETH, including banks, custodians, asset managers, and treasuries, the integration means one more institutional-grade way to put ETH to work, without moving assets off-platform or transferring control to a third party.

Why This Matters for Institutions

Staking is one of the clearest ways for institutions to generate yield on digital assets. But historically, participating has meant a difficult choice: hand your assets over to a staking provider or a custodial platform to earn rewards, or hold your own assets and forgo the yield.

For regulated institutions, that choice carries real weight. Custody transfer introduces counterparty risk, complicates segregation and reporting, and creates exposure to a third party's operational and security posture. For many risk committees, that has been enough to keep institutional staking off the table.

Ledger Enterprise is built to remove that choice. Institutions can stake through vetted validator partners while assets remain under the institution's own control, with the security, governance, and audit trail regulated participants require.

What the Luganodes Integration Delivers

Luganodes joins Ledger Enterprise as a native ETH staking provider, giving institutional clients direct access to Luganodes' validator operations from within the platform. 

Every staking operation runs end to end inside the Ledger Enterprise environment:

Assets stay under client control. Keys never leave the client's own Personal Security Device. Institutions hold their assets throughout the staking lifecycle, with no custody transfer to Luganodes or to Ledger.

Signing, governance, and approval are all hardware-enforced. Transactions are verified and signed on the client's Personal Security Device. Approval rules, including spending limits, whitelisted validators, and multi-party quorums, are enforced inside certified hardware, not in software or the cloud. This matters because most institutional attacks target governance and approval workflows, not signing keys directly.

Rewards flow directly on-chain. Every staking operation is aattributable on-chain transaction, tied to the client's own address. No wrapped tokens, no pooled smart contracts, no synthetic mechanics that complicate custody frameworks or accounting.

Institutional validator operations run in the background. Luganodes brings enterprise SLAs, continuous monitoring, and a track record built for regulated participants, including custodians, exchanges, ETP issuers, and digital asset treasuries.

Why Luganodes

Luganodes brings institutional-grade validator operations and a track record with regulated participants. Its own credentials include SOC 2 Type II, GDPR alignment, and ISO/IEC 27001, and it operates validator infrastructure for custodians, exchanges, ETP issuers, and digital asset treasuries globally.

Structural alignment on both sides is what makes the integration credible for institutional buyers evaluating staking partners. Luganodes has also embedded Ledger hardware into its own operational stack, from secure key management for validator operations to its Ledger-compatible ETH Staking dApp. It's a signal that the two organisations approach institutional infrastructure from the same starting point.

What Institutional Clients Get

Institutions staking ETH through Luganodes inside Ledger Enterprise operate with:

• Full custody of assets throughout the staking lifecycle
• Hardware-enforced signing, governance, and approval workflows
• On-chain rewards tied directly to the client's own address
• Enterprise-grade SLAs, continuous monitoring, and audit-ready reporting
• A validator partner with the operational track record institutional workloads require

For treasuries generating yield on proprietary ETH holdings, for issuers building tokenised products that require staking exposure, or for custodial services offering staking to downstream clients, the integration removes the operational tension between generating yield and holding your own assets.

Get Started

Institutional clients on Ledger Enterprise can activate Luganodes as an ETH staking provider directly from the platform. Institutions evaluating Ledger Enterprise for self-custody staking, treasury operations, or tokenised asset workflows can contact the team or visit https://enterprise.ledger.com/staking.

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