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 gets tokenized, someone still needs to make sure the holder gets their dividend. Someone needs to facilitate proxy voting. Someone needs to handle corporate actions. That someone, Hahr is betting, should be BitGo.

Going public and building out the team

BitGo went public on the NYSE in January 2026 under the ticker BTGO. The company acquired NYDIG’s institutional trading business, adding execution capabilities to its custody and settlement stack. It also launched BitGo Research on September 24, 2026, and brought on new leadership in compliance and research.

The tokenization race heats up

BitGo isn’t operating in a vacuum. The race to become the infrastructure layer for tokenized real-world assets has attracted serious competition from players like Fireblocks, Anchorage Digital, and Coinbase’s institutional arm.

The regulatory environment is adding both opportunity and friction. SEC progress on tokenized securities frameworks gives companies like BitGo a clearer target to build toward. Hahr’s conviction-driven approach suggests BitGo plans to make directional bets on where regulation is heading rather than waiting for perfect clarity before building.