BitGo CEO Mike Belshe says digital assets are going mainstream, with or without Congress

BitGo CEO Mike Belshe has a message for Washington: the train is leaving the station, and it is not waiting for a ticket from Congress. Speaking with Bloomberg on October 7 at Token2049 Singapore, the BitGo co-founder argued that digital assets are becoming part of the mainstream financial system regardless of what US lawmakers do next. Belshe’s case: adoption is outrunning legislation Belshe’s core point was simple. He said digital assets are joining the financial system “whether the US Congress acts or not.” Token2049 Singapore runs from October 7 to 8. Belshe is scheduled to take the Institutional Stage on October 8 for a session on what regulatory clarity means for institutional strategy in crypto. Singapore is doing a lot of the heavy lifting BitGo, which trades publicly under the ticker BTGO, has been leaning hard into the Asia-Pacific region. Its Singapore entity has become central to that push. The company’s Singapore trading desk is now its largest anywhere in the world. The growth traces back to BitGo’s Major Payment Institution licence, granted in 2024. Since obtaining that licence, BitGo’s APAC client base has tripled, while regional headcount has more than doubled. The...