Key Takeaways
- • Apex Group Ltd., a Bermuda-headquartered financial services provider with more than $3.5 trillion in assets under service, has joined the Hedera Council, the body that governs the Hedera public network, according to the firm's announcement dated November 10, 2026.
- • Council membership gives Apex Group a voting role in governance and core network updates, with each Council member holding equal voting rights within a framework allowing up to 39 seats.
- • Apex Group says it will only explore using Hedera for its tokenization initiatives; it has not disclosed any product, fund, timeline, or node commitment on the network.
- • Apex Group's Apex Digital 3.0 platform and Tokeny ownership underpin the firm's compliance-led tokenization strategy, including SkyBridge Capital's reported $300 million of hedge fund assets moved onchain.
Summary
Apex Group Ltd. has joined the Hedera Council, the body that governs the Hedera public network through member organizations that run nodes and approve core updates. The Bermuda-headquartered firm, which services more than $3.5 trillion in assets, announced the appointment on November 10, 2026. As a Council member, Apex Group said it will contribute its experience in fund services, digital assets, and institutional market infrastructure to network governance. The Council's membership includes Fortune 500 companies, banks, Web3 companies, and universities, and it recorded FedEx as its 33rd member in February 2026, with McLaren Racing and Accenture joining later. Council chair Mance Harmon said Apex Group's addition strengthens the body at a time when institutional tokenization is moving from experimentation to real-world adoption.
Apex Group began in Bermuda in 2003 and now employs more than 13,000 specialists across more than 50 countries, offering fund structuring, operations, and distribution services. The firm says it was an early institutional adopter of digital assets and became the first transfer agent and fund service provider to administer regulated securities with distributed ledger technology as the book of record. Its digital asset platform, Apex Digital 3.0, is described as an all-in-one tokenization solution spanning tokenization, stablecoins, regulated transfer agency, investor identity, proof of reserves, and digital fund servicing. According to Tokeny, SkyBridge Capital has moved $300 million of its hedge funds onchain with Tokeny and Apex Group. Marco A. Infuso, Head of Digital Assets, Central Europe, at Apex Group, said institutional tokenization will scale only when compliance runs through the whole asset lifecycle, and noted the firm uses the ERC-3643 standard. Apex Group owns a majority stake in Tokeny, the developer behind ERC-3643, acquired in May 2025.
The Hedera seat sits alongside existing network work. In March 2026, Apex Group announced plans to use the Polygon-based T-REX Ledger as its multi-chain orchestration layer for tokenized funds. Hedera describes its network as built for asset lifecycle events, compliance attestations, and settlement coordination, functions that align with services Apex Group already sells. However, the firm has not announced which products or funds, if any, will use Hedera, and it has not disclosed a timeline, node commitment, or first tokenization project on the network. The practical impact of the appointment will therefore depend on what Apex Group chooses to build or migrate.
Apex Group began in Bermuda in 2003 and now employs more than 13,000 specialists across more than 50 countries, offering fund structuring, operations, and distribution services. The firm says it was an early institutional adopter of digital assets and became the first transfer agent and fund service provider to administer regulated securities with distributed ledger technology as the book of record. Its digital asset platform, Apex Digital 3.0, is described as an all-in-one tokenization solution spanning tokenization, stablecoins, regulated transfer agency, investor identity, proof of reserves, and digital fund servicing. According to Tokeny, SkyBridge Capital has moved $300 million of its hedge funds onchain with Tokeny and Apex Group. Marco A. Infuso, Head of Digital Assets, Central Europe, at Apex Group, said institutional tokenization will scale only when compliance runs through the whole asset lifecycle, and noted the firm uses the ERC-3643 standard. Apex Group owns a majority stake in Tokeny, the developer behind ERC-3643, acquired in May 2025.
The Hedera seat sits alongside existing network work. In March 2026, Apex Group announced plans to use the Polygon-based T-REX Ledger as its multi-chain orchestration layer for tokenized funds. Hedera describes its network as built for asset lifecycle events, compliance attestations, and settlement coordination, functions that align with services Apex Group already sells. However, the firm has not announced which products or funds, if any, will use Hedera, and it has not disclosed a timeline, node commitment, or first tokenization project on the network. The practical impact of the appointment will therefore depend on what Apex Group chooses to build or migrate.
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