In Issue 10 we explore recent market moves. On April 12, BTC and ETH derivatives traders loaded the same side together. By April 14, they had completely diverged – and five days later, the gap was still widening. Bridget and our CCO Chris Soriano tracked what happened when the same squeeze hit two cohorts and produced opposite responses. One rebuilt shorts. One rebuilt longs. Something structural is driving this split.

Forbes features our CEO Nirup Ramalingam in a discussion framed around Kraken's IPO filing. It argues that institutional crypto is volume-constrained not by demand or regulation, but by settlement infrastructure that is fifteen years behind every other asset class. Forbes came to BridgePort – as the settlement layer institutional crypto needs before the next wave of capital can enter – and that already has the support of major players.

Bridget and our CCO Chris Soriano tracked long/short positioning across BTC, ETH, SOL and XRP through the April US-Iran ceasefire. Oil plunged. Equities surged. Crypto barely moved – but the story underneath is messier than that. Four assets, four different playbooks. One absorbed the macro shock. The others had already decided not to care.

In October 2025, crypto traders came in short and bought the crash hard. In April, they came in max-long — and trimmed. Bridget's long/short analysis across Binance and Bybit captures the moment the dip-buying reflex quietly shifted. The book is still long. But for the first time, it got lighter when it had every reason to get heavier.

The week of March 17 handed crypto traders two reasons to reduce risk. First the Fed held rates and revised inflation higher, sending BTC from $74,000 to $70,900 in hours. Then Iran escalated, oil pushed above $100, and the market sold off again. And again. And again. What the derivatives book has shown since is that traders responded to all of it the same way: they bought.

On March 18, the Federal Reserve delivered exactly what crypto markets didn't want: an upward inflation revision and a dot plot anchored at one cut for 2026. BTC dropped from $74,000 to $70,900 within hours. We asked Bridget to skip the headline and read the positioning data.

Curatia features our CCO & Co-Founder Chris Soriano in an industry roundtable discussing: is tokenization revolutionary or evolutionary? How will it impact asset classes differently? Could it exacerbate liquidity fragmentation? Who will benefit more from the technology — institutions or retail traders? Are vertically-integrated trading venues a path to efficiency or a peril?

BridgePort, the institutional coordination layer for crypto off-exchange settlement, today announced the appointment of Zane Suren as Chief Revenue Officer. Suren will lead BridgePort's global revenue strategy, owning revenue and commercial architecture, pipeline development, and the build-out of the company's sales function as the network scales. Suren joins from Zodia Custody, the digital asset custodian backed by Standard Chartered Bank.

Last weekend, U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran sent Bitcoin crashing to $63,000. By Wednesday it was touching $74,000. The narrative on both sides of that move was loud – panic sellers on the way down, euphoric buyers on the way up. We asked Bridget to ignore the narrative and measure the actual structure. What she found cuts through both camps.

Sherwood features Chris Soriano, CCO of BridgePort, in an article exploring how Crypto spot ETF flows diverge, and what it reveals about investor behavior

Bloomberg features Nirup Ramalingam, CEO of BridgePort, in an article focused on explaining recent market dynamics in Bitcoin

In this exclusive interview, Nirup Ramalingam spoke about his transition from traditional finance (TradFi) to Web3. He also shed light on the crucial need for institutional-grade interoperability between exchanges and custodians, and why the next wave of capital relies on robust infrastructure rather than fleeting market hype.

360T’s Crypto Platform 3DX Integrates BridgePort Middleware for Off Exchange Settlement

360T’s Crypto-Asset Trading Platform 3DX Partners with BridgePort for Off-Exchange Settlement

SOL is down on the week. The funding market is screaming that shorts are winning. Yet the majority of traders haven't moved. We asked Bridget to look past the price action and measure what's actually happening beneath the surface of the SOL market this week. What she found is one of the clearest examples of conviction versus market signal we've seen in recent memory. Are the longs right to hold, or are they just not paying attention?

Why We're Building Settlement Financing & Lending on Canton: At BridgePort, we understand the infrastructure gap that real-time margin settlement creates – and we understand how to close it.

When Standard Chartered announced plans to establish a crypto prime brokerage through its SC Ventures unit, it became the latest example of traditional finance bringing institutional-grade infrastructure to digital assets. The move highlights how crypto traders are finally gaining access to the flexible, multi-faceted services that have been standard in traditional markets for decades.

The crypto market has been grinding lower, and the prevailing headline is that liquidity has disappeared. We asked Bridget, our AI Analyst, to look past the macro panic and measure the actual order books.

Why We're Building Real-Time Variation Margin Settlement: At BridgePort, we understand that OTC crypto moves in real time, and your margin settlement should too.

Harriet Rosewell has joined BridgePort as Head of Growth & Strategy, drawn by the team’s clarity on how institutional digital asset infrastructure needs to be built.