Institutional Custody Staking: BitGo and P2P.org

BitGo institutional clients can stake across major networks while their assets stay inside BitGo custody. P2P.org operates the validator infrastructure underneath.

TL;DR

• P2P.org is a staking partner for BitGo (NYSE: BTGO), the Fortune 500 custodian with a federal bank charter.
• Assets stay in BitGo custody. Clients delegate to P2P.org validator operations. Each protocol sets the rewards.
• Networks include Ethereum, Solana, Bitcoin, TON, Sui, and more, with additional networks to follow.

Who BitGo is

BitGo debuted on the 2026 Fortune 500 at No. 273 with $16.2 billion in revenue in 2025, and operates BitGo Bank & Trust, the first federally chartered digital asset trust bank owned by a public company.

What matters for staking is the standard that comes with that. A federal trust bank carries capital requirements, regular audits, and fiduciary oversight. Any partner BitGo places behind client assets is held to the same standard.

Staking used to mean leaving custody

A regulated institution that wanted to stake usually had to move assets to a separate provider. That meant a different security model and a second set of operational processes running next to the controls compliance had already approved.

Most institutions found it hard to justify. The validator was rarely the problem. The work involved rebuilding governance around a new provider, and it was so heavy that many decided staking was not worth offering.

Staking inside BitGo removes that work

Assets stay in regulated qualified custody with BitGo Bank & Trust. The security model does not change. The same controls that cover custody, the approval flows, the access policies, and the audit trails also cover staking.

A BitGo client can enable P2P.org validator operations inside their current setup instead of standing up a new one. That is what moves staking from a project to a feature. The institution is not taking on new infrastructure. Instead, it is unlocking new capabilities within its existing, trusted infrastructure.

Why P2P.org

P2P.org has operated non-custodial validator infrastructure since 2018, across 40+ networks, for more than 130 institutional clients. When a custodian relies on outside infrastructure for client assets, it inherits that infrastructure's track record, so the diligence is unforgiving. Three critical dynamics carry the most weight:

Slashing: Networks penalize validators that go offline or act incorrectly, and the penalty is taken from staked assets. A clean history is the closest thing to a verifiable track record the sector has. P2P.org has recorded zero slashing events to date.

Uptime: A validator that drops offline costs rewards and, on some networks, triggers penalties. P2P.org typically runs at 99.9%+ uptime, the output of monitoring, redundancy, and on-call coverage run separately for every network.

Audited controls: Institutions need claims attested, not asserted. P2P.org holds SOC 2 Type II attestation, which lets a custodian map its operations onto the compliance framework already in place rather than treating staking as an exception.

Eight years. Zero slashing events. $10B+ staked. 99.9%+ uptime. SOC 2 Type II.

Why this matters beyond one integration

For most regulated institutions, the limit on staking has been governance fit, not validator quality. Integrating a provider one institution at a time is slow, because each runs the same review on its own.

Putting validator operations inside a custody platform an institution already uses reaches that institution through a path it has already approved. BitGo is one of the largest of those platforms, and a partner of its standard is a reference point for the rest of the market. The same record is the base that P2P.org is extending as it moves further into institutional DeFi.

Get started

Already on BitGo? Access P2P.org validator operations directly within the BitGo platform.

Building a platform? Integrate P2P.org validator infrastructure into your custody or digital asset platform, the way BitGo did. Talk to P2P.org.

Disclaimer: Staking rewards are protocol-generated, variable, and subject to network rules, validator performance, and applicable slashing or protocol risks. P2P.org does not control or set reward rates.

BitGo institutional clients can stake across major networks while their assets stay inside BitGo custody. P2P.org operates the validator infrastructure underneath.