BridgePort's Off-Exchange Settlement (OES) network continues to grow, adding Anchorage Digital, SpotEx, and Virtu Financial as partners. A growing number of institutional trading firms now execute across venues while their assets remain in qualified custody. Custodians are extending their value beyond safekeeping. Exchanges are attracting larger, better-capitalized participants without requiring pre-funded accounts. And all because our design, agnostic, interoperable and neutral, works.
For years, institutional crypto has operated with a structural handicap that traditional markets solved decades ago. To trade, you pre-fund. Assets leave custody, concentrate at exchanges, and tie up capital that could be working harder. For a firm with $100M in crypto assets, that means $60M or more earning nothing, posted as security deposits across venues while the market moves.
That's changing, and the shift is picking up speed.
What OES Solves
BridgePort acts as the coordination layer between custody and execution. Assets stay with the custodian. BridgePort reflects their availability to the exchange in real time. Trades execute. Net settlement happens end-of-day.
No pre-funding. No counterparty exposure. No choosing between where your assets are safe and where you can trade.
The model is custodian-agnostic and exchange-agnostic by design. We don't take custody. We don't pick winners. We connect the ecosystem, and that neutrality, and interoperability, is the point.
The Right Team at the Right Time
BridgePort is built by a team that has designed and traded on the infrastructure institutional markets run on, across FX, fixed income, commodities and crypto. We've seen what works, what breaks, and exactly what crypto is still missing. We have the technical, product and commercial teams in place, and the relationships and market credibility to scale.
The Right Partners
More of the market is choosing to build on BridgePort's network.
Anchorage Digital is the only federally chartered crypto bank in the United States. Their integration of BridgePort into the Atlas Network means institutions can now access non-custodial trading venues with the security of a regulated custody framework behind every position.
Virtu Financial is one of the most operationally rigorous trading firms in global markets. They don't integrate infrastructure unless it performs at institutional scale. Their participation reflects the growing demand we're seeing from trading firms across the market.
SpotEx is building next-generation exchange infrastructure with institutional workflows at its core. Their integration demonstrates that OES is native to where crypto market structure is heading.
The Market Is Ready and the Infrastructure Can Match It
Institutional crypto is no longer a question of intent. Goldman Sachs data shows 71% of institutional asset managers plan to increase crypto exposure over the next 12 months (CoinDesk), yet the infrastructure to support that scale hasn't kept pace. Public companies now collectively hold over 1.7 million BTC, representing approximately 8% of total supply (AMINA Bank), and these companies need their capital working efficiently rather than sitting idle in pre-funded exchange accounts.
The regulatory environment has done its part. MiCA mandates asset segregation across Europe. SAB 121 has been rescinded in the US. The GENIUS Act passed in July 2025, and the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act is expected to cement blockchain-based finance in US capital markets (Crypto.com). Tokenized real-world assets have grown 308% over three years, with tokenized Treasuries up 80% year-to-date (CoinLaw), creating a yield-bearing collateral layer institutions want deployed, not locked up at exchanges.
The demand is real. The regulation is in place. The collateral exists. What's been missing is the settlement infrastructure to connect them. That's what changes today.
BridgePort is the settlement layer for institutional crypto, connecting custodians, exchanges, and trading firms in a network built for the way institutions actually operate.
Capital efficiency is a catalyst for scale. That era is underway, and our network is growing to meet it.
Connect with us to see off-exchange settlement on your own flow.