BitGo launches BitGo Labs to build at the intersection of AI and crypto

BitGo has a new side project, and it is aimed squarely at the robots. The digital asset infrastructure company has launched BitGo Labs, an innovation unit that will initially focus on where artificial intelligence and crypto overlap. The pitch is simple. BitGo says the AI economy needs crypto financial infrastructure, and it would very much like to be the one supplying it. What BitGo Labs is building toward BitGo Labs starts with a narrow mandate: applications that sit between AI systems and crypto rails. The unit’s founding thesis treats AI as a future user of financial services, not just a tool for the humans running them. The Labs launch does not arrive in a vacuum. BitGo has spent 2026 shipping AI-facing products, and the new unit looks like a formal home for that work. On March 23, 2026, the company unveiled its Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server. The tool lets AI clients such as Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and VS Code query BitGo’s Developer Portal using plain language. Put more simply, a developer can ask an AI assistant how to handle wallet management, staking or integration on BitGo, and get answers pulled from BitGo’s own documentation. CEO Mike Belshe described the MCP Serv...