BitGo Holdings, Inc. (“BitGo”), the digital asset infrastructure company, announced an integration with Derive Labs, Inc. (“Derive”), an onchain derivatives exchange designed for professional traders and institutions, expanding institutional access to onchain options and perpetual futures while enabling eligible clients to maintain collateral within BitGo’s regulated infrastructure.
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The integration enables eligible institutional clients to access Derive’s onchain derivatives markets while collateral remains held within BitGo Bank & Trust, National Association (“BitGo Bank & Trust”), an OCC regulated digital asset trust bank. Clients benefit from Derive’s electronic execution, portfolio margining, and onchain options liquidity while leveraging BitGo Bank & Trust’s regulated custody and collateral framework. By separating asset custody from trade execution, the model aims to reduce exchange counterparty exposure, asset commingling risk, and operational complexity while supporting more capital-efficient participation in onchain markets.
“Institutional markets are built on the separation of custody and trading,” said Adam Sporn, Head of Institutional Sales and Prime Brokerage at BitGo. “We believe bringing that same model to digital assets is critical for the continued long-term institutional adoption. As new sources of liquidity emerge, our goal is to enable clients to maintain a consistent, trusted custody and operational framework while accessing execution that best fits their strategy.”
Derive has processed more than $30 billion in cumulative notional volume giving institutions access to established electronic derivatives liquidity, now through BitGo’s institutional infrastructure.
“Institutions use options to hedge risk, generate yield and construct exposures that cannot be replicated efficiently through spot or perpetual futures alone,” said Nick Forster, Founder and CEO of Derive. “Until now, accessing these markets onchain has often required institutions to compromise on their preferred custody model. By integrating with BitGo, clients can access Derive’s liquidity and capital-efficient margin system while keeping their underlying assets within the custody framework their risk and compliance teams already trust.”
As institutions increasingly execute across a growing range of trading venues and execution models, BitGo remains committed to giving clients the flexibility to choose where they trade while preserving the operational controls and risk management standards they expect. BitGo’s institutional collateral framework continues to serve as the foundation for a growing range of workflows allowing clients to deploy capital more efficiently across digital asset operations.
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