Self-custody wallet customers can connect to Decibel, while keeping assets in their BitGo wallets with existing transaction controls.
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BitGo Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: BTGO), the digital asset infrastructure company, today announced WalletConnect support for its self-custody institutional clients with Decibel, a decentralized exchange (DEX) for spot and perpetuals trading built on the Aptos network. Institutional clients may elect to access Decibel while keeping assets in their BitGo-connected wallets and retaining existing transaction controls.
With wallet connectivity now live, institutions can connect BitGo self-custody MPC wallets to Decibel through WalletConnect, initiate trades from the Decibel interface, and approve transactions through BitGo’s MPC infrastructure and wallet policy engine, with support expanding to additional networks over time. Existing controls, including address whitelisting and multi-party approval workflows, will carry through the trading process.
BitGo will initially support wallet connectivity on Ethereum and Solana, allowing customers to access Decibel without moving assets into a separate wallet or changing their existing approval workflows.
Institutions have held digital assets with regulated custodians for years, but accessing onchain markets can require a separate wallet setup and trading workflow. With this integration BitGo customers may now elect to access Decibel through their existing BitGo self-custody setup, while retaining existing transaction controls and approval processes.
Decibel is powered by the Aptos network, which provides the underlying blockchain infrastructure for the trading venue, with sub-second finality.
“Institutions shouldn’t have to choose between the controls they need and access to onchain markets,” said Abel Seow, Managing Director and Head of APAC Sales at BitGo. “This integration connects BitGo’s self-custody wallets to Decibel, giving customers a way to access onchain spot and perpetual markets while keeping the policies, approvals, and controls they already rely on.”
“Institutions have wanted access to onchain markets for a long time. What held them back was never interest. It was the operational gap between where their assets sit and where the markets run,” said Brylee Whatley, Executive Director at Decibel Foundation.
“Regulated custody is where institutional capital lives today. Connecting that base to onchain trading is exactly what Aptos was built to do,” said Solomon Tesfaye, Chief Business Officer at Aptos Labs, one of the core developers of the Aptos blockchain. “Aptos gives that capital a settlement layer it can rely on. When a custodian of BitGo's standing supports connectivity to a venue on the Aptos network, that is the strongest signal one can ask for.”
About BitGo
BitGo (NYSE: BTGO) is the digital asset infrastructure company delivering custody, wallets, staking, trading, financing, stablecoins, and settlement services from regulated cold storage. Since 2013, BitGo has focused on accelerating the transition of the financial system to a digital asset economy. BitGo maintains a global presence and multiple regulated entities, including BitGo Bank & Trust, National Association, the first federally chartered digital asset trust bank owned by a publicly traded company. Today, BitGo serves thousands of institutions, including many of the industry's top brands, financial institutions, exchanges, and platforms, and millions of investors worldwide. For more information, visit www.bitgo.com.
About Decibel Foundation
The Decibel Foundation is dedicated to advancing the Decibel Protocol, a decentralized non-custodial trading engine designed for high-performance, full-stack trading of perpetual and spot digital assets. The Decibel Foundation supports protocol development, governance, and ecosystem growth to drive the future of onchain capital markets.
About Aptos
Aptos is a next-generation Layer 1 blockchain. Aptos’ breakthrough technology, scalable infrastructure and user safeguards are designed to power the next generation of financial systems by offering unparalleled high throughput and low latency that can scale to billions of users.
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