The post-trade stack is finally converging on tokenization and real-time settlement, yet the operational and regulatory lift remains far heavier than the industry admits.

Featuring an interview with our CEO & Co-Founder Nirup Ramalingam & Aly Madhavji, Blockchain Founders Fund

The loudest crypto story in 2025 is not actually memecoins, digital asset treasury companies, or even crypto company IPOs. It is the migration of risk, collateral, and price discovery onto regulated rails. You can see it in one metric that is hard to fake: open interest (“OI”) on CME.

Demand for bilateral trading, like OTC FX market structure, is fuelling crypto’s institutional take-up, finds BridgePort

BridgePort Achieves SOC 2 Type 1 Compliance. A milestone advances our long-term security strategy.

While crypto's explosive growth often dominates headlines, its journey to institutional maturity faces a significant, yet often overlooked, challenge: extreme liquidity fragmentation. In a compelling new article for e-Forex, BridgePort's Chief Commercial Officer, Chris Soriano, dives deep into this "great crypto liquidity fragmentation problem" and lays out a clear path forward.

BridgePort named Steven Bartfield Chief Product Officer. With 15 years of experience in institutional trading, market structure, and fintech—from Goldman Sachs’ Credit Market Structure Strategy to CME Group and AI-driven data platform—Bartfield will drive BridgePort’s product roadmap. His focus: deepen enterprise integrations, accelerate agentic AI, and deliver transparent, automation-first infrastructure for institutional crypto trading. He holds an MBA from Wharton and is a

BridgePort has raised $3.2 M in seed funding led by Further Ventures, with backing from Virtu, XBTO, Blockchain Founders Fund, Fun Fair Ventures, and Humla Ventures. The platform provides agnostic middleware for off-exchange settlement, eliminating prefunding and credit risk through real-time messaging and coordinated collateral management, enhancing capital efficiency and interoperability.

BridgePort has announced the launch of its groundbreaking middleware platform, designed to enhance institutional crypto trading and settlement. Supported by industry leaders like Virtu, XBTO, Blockchain Founders Fund, Fun Fair Ventures, and Humla Ventures, the platform introduces essential off-exchange settlement infrastructure, connecting execution venues and custody providers for pre-order asset allocation and post-trade settlement.