BitGo expands Canton Coin service with on-chain trading and payments

From custody to market infrastructure

BitGo Inc. (NYSE: BTGO), a leading provider of digital asset infrastructure, announced yesterday that it is expanding support for Canton Coin (CC), the native utility token of the Canton Network. This move adds electronic trading and instant settlement via BitGo's Go Network to its existing custody and OTC trading capabilities, making BitGo the first US-based regulated infrastructure provider to offer a fully integrated custody-trading-settlement workflow for CC on a single platform.

BitGo initially introduced custody support for Canton Coin in late 2025, allowing institutional clients to securely hold assets with a regulated provider. The latest expansion adds OTC trading, electronic execution, and on-chain payments, consolidating previously fragmented processes into a single operational system.

The result is a unified workflow where organizations can:

• Keep assets in custody.

• Execute transactions via API or OTC exchange.

• Direct transaction payments on the blockchain.

This reflects the architecture of traditional financial markets, where custody, execution, and clearing are tightly integrated, but restructured within a blockchain environment.

Institutions can now deposit credit cards (CCs) in managed and insured cold storage, execute electronic transactions via APIs and user interfaces (with aggregated liquidity), utilize OTC exchanges for spot and derivative trading, and achieve instant settlement between counterparties on the Go Network, while assets remain validly held in custody. This eliminates upfront funding requirements, reduces operational friction, and mitigates counterparty risk in ways previously unattainable in fragmented digital asset markets.

Infrastructure for Cryptocurrency Finance

This expansion is tied to the growing importance of the Canton Network, a blockchain with access specifically designed for regulated financial institutions and tokenized real assets (RWA).

Canton Coin acts as the network's native utility token, facilitating operations on a system built for:

• Transactions that protect privacy.

• Interoperability between financial applications

• Comply with organizational requirements.

BitGo's move demonstrates confidence that this model, with its access-prioritized blockchain infrastructure, is gaining increasing acceptance alongside public networks.

Solving the fragmentation problem

One of the persistent challenges in institutional adoption of cryptocurrencies is operational fragmentation. Traditionally, companies have had to rely on separate providers for custody, trading, and payments, leading to counterparty risk, latency, and capital inefficiencies.

By integrating these functionalities, BitGo is effectively addressing a core bottleneck – the lack of seamless post-transaction infrastructure in the digital asset market.

The addition of on-chain payments is particularly noteworthy. Unlike the traditional T+2 settlement cycle, blockchain-based payments can occur almost instantaneously, minimizing capital tie-ups and counterparty risk. This aligns with the industry's general trend toward modernizing financial market infrastructure with distributed ledger technology.

Our review

BitGo's expansion into on-chain trading and payments is not simply about adding new features, but about redefining its role in the financial ecosystem.

This reflects a shift from service provider to infrastructure operator, from distributed workflows to a unified platform, and from pure cryptocurrency experimentation to an organizational-level system.

As tokenized assets continue to grow rapidly, successful companies may not be those that capture transaction volume, but rather those that control execution, custody, and settlement within a single system.

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Compiled and analyzed by HCC Venture

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