From the Vault: The BitGo Podcast

BitGo CEO Mike Belshe sits down with Pete Janney, newly joined via the BitGo–NYDIG merger, to discuss combining BitGo's custody infrastructure with NYDIG's institutional trading and prime brokerage expertise. They cover the 29-person team joining BitGo, the roadmap for tokenized equities and expanded product offerings, and how regulatory clarity is setting up the next growth cycle in digital assets.

CahilllNXT co-chair Lewis Cohen joins BitGo's Zain Bedi for a game of chess and a wide-ranging conversation on where digital asset regulation is headed. He explains why clear "rules of the road" let the industry move faster, not slower. He also makes the case that a security is defined by an economic relationship, not by a token itself. And he lays out what it will take for crypto to deliver real, lasting economic value, from stablecoins and payments to tokenized securities on public chains.

21Shares co-founder Ophelia Snyder joins BitGo's Zain Bedi for a game of chess and a wide-ranging conversation on where digital assets are headed. She explains why tokenization should be understood as settlement infrastructure rather than a product category, how a changing holder base has tied crypto much more closely to macro, and why growing currency fragmentation could make blockchains an increasingly natural choice for global payments and capital markets.

InvestiFi CEO Kian Sarreshteh joins BitGo's Frank Wang to explain how investing from checking is helping community banks and credit unions offer crypto, stablecoins, and investing directly inside their existing banking apps, powered by BitGo's regulated custody infrastructure. They cover crypto as a service, stablecoin payment rails, and the road ahead for tokenized equities.

Zain Bedi sits down with Julian Kwan, CEO and Co-Founder of InvestaX and ISX, to discuss the decade-long evolution of real-world asset tokenization from Singapore's early ICO era to today's institutional US market. They dig into liquidity models, KYC-compliant DeFi/TradFi bridges, and the coming wave of AI agents investing directly in tokenized treasuries and money market funds.

Voltage founder and CEO Graham Krizek explains how the Lightning Network gives Bitcoin sub-second, near-zero-fee payments without sacrificing its security or decentralization. He digs into why stablecoins on Lightning could be a Trojan horse for adoption, how the payments use case reinforces Bitcoin's long-term investment thesis, and why Lightning may be uniquely suited for the coming wave of AI and agentic payments.

BitGo's Mike Gross sits down with Bobby Zagotta, Chief Business Officer at Subzero Labs, to unpack how institutional sentiment on crypto shifted from cautious curiosity to real adoption. Bobby also shares why he believes agentic finance can't exist without trustless blockchain rails. Along the way, he draws on leadership roles at Kraken, Bitstamp, and CME to explain what still has to happen to bring enterprises fully onchain.

Dany Vaiman, CFO of ZeroStack, joins BitGo's Mike Gross to talk about why AI and blockchain are the industrial revolution of our time, and what a TradFi veteran actually does when he goes all in on crypto. From managing volatility to why they chose ZeroG over Bitcoin as their primary asset, this is a candid look at building a crypto company inside the public markets.

Former three-time UFC title challenger Kenny Florian joins BitGo's Nick Payton to talk about his Bitcoin journey, why the fighter mindset translates perfectly into financial sovereignty, and how he has been orange pilling the MMA world one fighter at a time.

Sisun Lee, Head of Crypto at Aven, sits down with BitGo's Zain Bedi to break down how Aven is reimagining lending with bitcoin as collateral. They dig into machine banking, compliance as a competitive advantage, and what it looks like when you build a financial product from first principles.