BitGo has taken a strategic position in Aptos (APT), the NYSE-listed digital asset custody firm announced on Nov. 10, 2026, placing the Layer-1 network's native token on the company's own balance sheet.

According to the announcement, BitGo Holdings — whose common stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker BTGO — stated that it “has taken a strategic position in…” The disclosure follows roughly 20 months of integration work between the custodian and the Aptos network, during which the firm has worked on the blockchain for close to two years — a timeline that puts the start of that work around early 2025.

Aptos is a Layer-1 blockchain whose mainnet launched in October 2022. The network was developed by engineers who previously worked on Meta's Diem project and runs on the Move programming language. Its native token, APT, is used to pay transaction fees, support network consensus through staking, and participate in on-chain governance.

Founded in 2013 — nine years before Aptos's mainnet went live — BitGo is among the longest-established institutional custodians in the digital asset industry, providing cold storage custody and related services for institutional clients. With the newly disclosed position, APT now sits alongside the assets the company holds on its own account, a balance-sheet category distinct from the client assets the firm safeguards in custody.

This report was first published by COINOTAG: https://en.coinotag.com/bitgo-strategic-position-in-aptos-apt