BitGo Prime has expanded its Global Liquidity Layer, providing institutions with a single connection to global digital asset markets. The platform combines intelligent liquidity sourcing with flexible trading workflows, integrating financing, collateral management, and settlement into one institutional experience. As institutional participation in digital assets grows — spanning hedge funds, asset managers, banks, and corporate treasuries — the demand for regulated, capital-efficient prime brokerage infrastructure has intensified, mirroring the role prime brokers have long played in traditional financial markets.

Recent upgrades streamline every stage of the trading process — from connecting to markets and executing trades to financing positions and moving capital across borders.

Expanded Market Access and Trading Options

BitGo, founded in 2013 as a digital asset custody provider, launched BitGo Prime in 2019 to give institutions a secure way to trade digital assets from regulated custody. As markets have evolved, the platform has steadily expanded its capabilities to meet institutional demand.

The Global Liquidity Layer sources pricing across exchanges, market makers, and OTC counterparties, reducing the operational burden of managing numerous separate trading relationships — a persistent challenge in crypto markets, where liquidity remains dispersed across dozens of venues globally.

Recognizing that institutions have different trading needs, BitGo Prime supports both low-touch electronic execution through APIs and high-touch OTC trading handled by experienced traders — all within a single account.

BitGo addressed this flexibility in a recent post on X:

The best opportunities aren't confined to one venue, one region, or one market. And neither is BitGo Prime's Global Liquidity Layer. One connection to deep liquidity. No matter what you trade, how you trade, or where you trade.

Read the announcement: pic.twitter.com/kqo9Op1xmt

— BitGo (@BitGo) July 23, 2026

Recent additions have broadened institutional access to regional markets and liquidity providers. BitGo MENA FZE now offers regulated local trading infrastructure across the Middle East. Virtu Financial and tradias have joined BitGo Prime's global liquidity network, and expanded FIX API connectivity — a messaging standard widely used in traditional electronic trading — is now available alongside existing REST and WebSocket options.

Strengthened Transparency and Capital Efficiency

Execution quality depends on more than quoted spreads. BitGo Prime's Transaction Cost Analysis now benchmarks trades against prevailing market prices at execution time. Independent research from Talos found that BitGo Prime delivered among the lowest all-in trading costs studied. Enhanced post-trade reporting, including cost basis data, simplifies reconciliation for clients.

BitGo Prime has also introduced new ways for institutions to put idle assets to work. Portfolio-based loans let clients unlock liquidity against diversified holdings, including staked assets. Single-asset-backed loans and lending services generate income without added smart contract risk, while event-linked contracts provide additional tools to hedge risk and express market views.

Collateral security remains central to BitGo Prime's institutional offering. Tri-party collateral management — a structure long used in traditional securities lending and repo markets — keeps eligible assets under segregated custody with BitGo Bank & Trust. BitGo acts as a neutral third party rather than transferring assets between counterparties directly, lowering counterparty risk while improving capital efficiency for both sides.

Go Network, BitGo's proprietary settlement infrastructure, ties these services together. It enables Delivery-vs-Payment settlement of fiat and digital assets around the clock, bringing to digital assets a settlement mechanism that has been a cornerstone of traditional financial markets for decades. This connected post-trade infrastructure allows capital to keep moving rather than waiting on fragmented, manual settlement processes.