BitGo’s new Chief Product Officer prioritizes clarity in product development

Custody used to be the hard part. Keeping digital assets safe, making sure private keys didn’t end up in the wrong hands, building the kind of infrastructure that lets institutions sleep at night. BitGo largely solved that problem. Now its Chief Product Officer, Eugene Hahr, is turning his attention to what comes after. From custody to asset servicing The digital asset industry has spent the better part of a decade perfecting the vault. BitGo, founded in 2013, now supports more than 1,550 digital assets and serves over 4,900 clients across 100 countries. The question Hahr is focused on is what gets built on top of it. The answer, increasingly, is asset servicing for tokenized securities. Think dividend distributions, voting rights retention, claims transfers. The kind of operational minutiae that traditional custodians like BNY Mellon and State Street have handled for decades in equities markets, but that barely exist in crypto infrastructure today. This isn’t a theoretical exercise. The London Stock Exchange has been developing tokenized stock initiatives, and the SEC has made regulatory progress that’s starting to create a clearer path for tokenized assets in the US. When a stock...