NEW YORK, Jan 23, 2026, 12:33 EST
- BitGo opened at $22.43 in its NYSE debut, 24.6% above its $18 IPO price.
- The IPO raised about $213 million after pricing above the marketed $15-$17 range.
- Investors are treating the deal as an early test for 2026 crypto listings as regulation and volatility stay in focus.
BitGo opened 24.6% above its IPO price in its New York Stock Exchange debut on Thursday, giving the crypto custody firm a $2.59 billion valuation. IPOX research associate Lukas Muehlbauer called the deal a “first major bellwether” for crypto listings in 2026. (Reuters)
The debut lands after a stretch of thin crypto IPO activity in the U.S., and it comes with investors still wary of uneven post-IPO trading across the sector last year. BitGo’s deal is a live test of whether the market will pay up for crypto “plumbing” — custody and infrastructure — instead of pure trading exposure. (Axios)
BitGo priced the offering at $18 a share, above the marketed $15 to $17 range, raising $212.8 million and valuing the company at $2.08 billion. The pricing comes as U.S. lawmakers move a long-awaited market structure bill that would redraw the boundary between securities and commodities oversight, something Coinbase has warned could squeeze parts of the business. (Reuters)
In a statement announcing the pricing, BitGo said it sold 11,821,595 shares, including 11,026,365 shares offered by the company and 795,230 sold by existing stockholders. It said the shares were expected to begin trading under the ticker “BTGO” and that the offering was expected to close on Friday, subject to customary conditions. (Business Wire)
BitGo’s CEO and co-founder Mike Belshe struck a confident tone around the listing, calling it a “defining moment” as the company’s leadership team prepared to ring the NYSE opening bell. He said the move into public markets would help BitGo keep building out “security, custody and liquidity solutions” for clients. (Business Wire)
BitGo positions itself as a custody shop — the business of storing and safeguarding digital assets for clients, often institutions — and as an “infrastructure” provider that handles the back-end work that makes crypto markets run. That pitch is designed to look steadier than trading-heavy models when token prices swing.
The company, founded in 2013, has highlighted profitability and regulation as part of the story. It reported net income of $35.3 million in the first nine months of 2025, while bitcoin logged a 6.4% drop in 2025, its first annual decline since 2022.
IPO research firm Renaissance Capital said BitGo served more than 4,900 clients across over 100 countries as of Sept. 30, 2025, and supported more than 1,550 digital assets. It also said BitGo managed about $104 billion in “assets on platform” — customer assets held or administered through its systems — as of that date. (Renaissance Capital)
But crypto markets are still quick to turn, and the sector has been rattled by sharp selloffs in recent months. The bigger uncertainty is regulation: if Washington rewrites the rulebook in ways that crimp core products or change how tokens are classified, that can hit revenue models and valuation math fast.
Attention now shifts to whether BitGo can hold investor interest beyond the first-day pop — and whether it opens the door for other would-be issuers. Crypto asset manager Grayscale and exchange Kraken have been among the names floated as potential IPO candidates, with BitGo’s reception a read-through for what comes next.
