Ending 2025: Ready for Go Live 2026

Building foundations, integrations, analytics, investment and a fantastic team

By Chris Soriano

As 2025 winds down, we’ve been reflecting on how far we’ve come and how we’re planning for the future.

Following our pre-seed raise in 2024, we went straight into build mode.

Yes, we focused on building the product. But we also spent the year in-market, engaging directly with the stakeholder groups that define this ecosystem: trading firms, exchanges, custodians, and prime brokers.

BridgePort didn’t invent the word "middleware." Software vendors did, decades ago. What we’re doing is giving it meaning in crypto. Institutional meaning. Infrastructure-grade meaning. Because real middleware doesn’t just move payloads of data. It creates interoperability. It enables scale. It removes risk. And it is not built overnight.

The bottom-line is, we’re not here to rush something to market. We’re here to build the foundation this market needs, not just by our standards but by the standards of the institutions that will actually use it.

In 2025, we made real progress toward that goal.

The vision is straightforward: trading firms should be able to execute on exchanges and settle at custodians without pre-funding, without manual ops risk, and without handshake deals that don’t scale.

That’s a clean sentence. But it’s a hard system to build. It takes coordination across all three sides, and infrastructure that can be trusted, audited, and relied on.

This year, we focused on building that system:

• We completed integrations across all three stakeholder segments: exchanges, custodians, and trading firms

• We deployed a working product with balance locking, message flows, and pre-settlement affirmation

• We became a validator on the Canton network and are collaborating on a real-time VM settlement application for OTC derivatives

• We integrated with Lynq to provide exchange connectivity for yield earning tokenized treasuries

• We created market data analytics with AI features to show quality of execution across exchanges

• We achieved SOC 2 Type 1 and 2, with a clean audit and no exceptions

• We formalized commercial relationships

• We expanded our team with superstars who are curious, who have built systems like this before, and who are excited to build from the ground up

• We raised additional capital from investors who know what institutional scale actually requires

We’re going to be live soon…very soon. That matters.

Go-live requires all three stakeholders to be active and aligned. That is the bar. Until then, we are in rollout mode, onboarding, testing, validating flows, and pressure-testing assumptions with early participants.

2026 is the year we activate the network.

No shortcuts. No soft launches. This is mission-critical infrastructure, and we will treat it that way.

To our investors, partners, and early users: thank you. You are not backing a pitch deck. You are backing the long game.

We will have more to announce in January. That’s a promise!