BitGo launches LINK for seamless asset management with exchanges

BitGo has rolled out a new product called LINK, a unified interface that lets institutional clients view and move digital assets held in BitGo custody and on centralized exchanges from a single dashboard.

The launch builds on BitGo’s broader push to separate custody from trading, an operational philosophy that has become increasingly important to institutions still haunted by the ghosts of exchange collapses past.

How LINK fits into BitGo’s Go Network

LINK is best understood as a front-end layer sitting atop BitGo’s Go Network Off-Exchange Settlement (OES) infrastructure. The Go Network OES lets institutions allocate their custody balances for trading on connected centralized exchanges while the assets themselves never leave BitGo Bank & Trust.

Trades settle through BitGo’s secure infrastructure using a Delivery-vs-Payment mechanism, which means neither side of a trade has to trust the other to hold up their end of the deal.

The Go Network currently connects over 10 venues, including OKX US, HTX, KuCoin, and Deribit (the latter through Copper). Gate US joined the network on July 28, 2026, making it the latest centralized exchange to plug into the system.

LINK gives institutions a single pane of glass to manage positions across all of these venues simultaneously, rather than logging into multiple exchange dashboards, reconciling balances in spreadsheets, and manually coordinating settlements.

Why custody separation matters more than ever

The crypto industry learned an expensive lesson about counterparty risk in 2022. When FTX imploded, billions in customer assets vanished because those assets were sitting on the exchange itself. BitGo’s model is designed to make that scenario structurally impossible.

By keeping assets in qualified custody at BitGo Bank & Trust and only projecting balances onto exchanges for trading purposes, the arrangement eliminates the single biggest risk vector in institutional crypto trading. If an exchange goes down, the assets are still safely parked at the custodian.

BitGo’s executives have consistently emphasized this separation principle as foundational to their business model.

The broader BitGo Prime ecosystem

LINK doesn’t exist in isolation. It’s part of BitGo Prime, a comprehensive institutional platform that bundles trading, financing, collateral management, and settlement into a single solution. The Global Liquidity Layer within Prime aggregates access to multiple trading venues, with recent additions including OKX US and STS Digital.

BitGo, founded in 2013, has positioned itself as the largest independent digital asset custodian. The company processes a significant share of Bitcoin transactions globally, and its custody infrastructure underpins operations for a wide range of institutional clients.

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