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BridgePort is redefining off-exchange settlement with purpose-built middleware

It was an honor to be recognized by FIA, Inc. as the winner of the 2026 Innovators Pavilion. Appreciate the judging panel for their expertise from: @CMEGroup , @WellsFargo, @VirtuFinancial, and @IlluminateFM

BridgePort is middleware for connected collateral - institutions keep their assets in custody and settle off-exchange with CeFi and DeFi. This recognition demonstrates the market's attention to the importance of the investment in infrastructure to bring the next wave of liquidity as crypto and traditional finance continue to converge.

Any exchange. Your custodian. No trapped capital.

We're expanding the network of exchanges and custodians - please connect with the team to learn more. Steven Bartfield @stevebport, Chris Soriano @cws_bp, and Abhinav Sinha

Trading firms have spent years parking capital at every exchange they trade on, mostly because prices kept going up and nobody had a reason to push back. Speaking with @alphawire at @token2049 Singapore, BridgePort CEO @Nirup Ramalingam explains why he expects that tolerance to run out as institutional money comes in. He also gets into what it will take for crypto to close a volume gap with FX that he puts at roughly 100x, and why he thinks real time margin is the next crypto idea traditional markets end up borrowing.

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Pool pledges. Allocate anywhere.

Institutional trading shouldn't require fragmenting your balance sheet across every venue you execute on.

BridgePort’s off-exchange settlement architecture decouples custody from execution through a seamless, 3-step coordinated workflow:

1️⃣ 01 / PLEDGE - The trading firm initiates a collateral pledge through the BridgePort coordination layer.

2️⃣ 02 / LOCK-UP - Assets are held securely across your preferred regulated custodians (Custodians A, B, C).

3️⃣ 03 / ALLOCATE - BridgePort allocates trading credit across every connected venue- exchanges, ECNs, OTC desks, and DeFi protocols.

Multi-custodial credit, allocated dynamically across every liquidity pool—and assets never move.

Stop letting pre-funding drag dictate your capital efficiency.

Why Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi Global Market set out its first digital asset framework in 2018, years before most regulators had a position at all.

What that bought was clarity, and clarity is the actual product a regulator sells to anyone deciding where to build. Infrastructure is a ten, twenty, fifty year bet, which is hard to justify against rules that might still move.

ADGM's early position is a large part of why firms are choosing the emirate now, and the consistency of the FSRA's approach in the years since is why the market has taken it seriously.

@surensview Zane Suren, BridgePort's Chief Revenue Officer, sat down with @FINTECHTVglobal