VeChain’s New BitGo Partnership Enables Regulated Custody for Institutions

VeChain has officially partnered with BitGo, a digital asset custodian, to develop strong foundational systems. The initiative focuses primarily on expediting the integration of VeChain’s blockchain and digital tokenized assets into institutional frameworks.

As such, the integration with BitGo provides VeChainThor and the VeBetter ecosystem with regulated custodial solutions, thereby unlocking numerous new possibilities. Also, BitGo’s institutional-grade services for tokenization, node operation, and staking offer reassurance to big professional stakeholders.

This means that these entities can confidently join as validators to help secure the blockchain, particularly following VeChain’s planned tokenomics updates set for late 2025.

Major institutional partnerships

While today’s spotlight is on BitGo, this isn’t the only partnership VeChain announced, as collaborations with Franklin Templeton and Keyrock are in the pipeline.

Franklin Templeton, a global asset manager overseeing roughly $1.6 trillion AUM (assets under management), is deploying its BENJI platform on VeChain to tokenize its $780 million FOBXX US Treasury money fund.

On the other hand, Keyrock brings liquidity provisioning, derivatives infrastructure, and a validator client.

Following the news, VeChain price saw a modest recovery, trading around $0.0253, with potential upside of about a 33% gain if resistance levels are broken, per some calculations.

VeChain reported that its application platform, VeBetter, reached 4 million active users and has recorded over 27.8 million tokenized activities within its first year on the mainnet. The company believes that with institutional support and infrastructure provided by BitGo, the platform will continue its expansion and growth.

VeChain’s momentum builds

VeChain has been on a roll lately with not only partnerships but infrastructural upgrades as well. For instance, it recently activated its Stargate upgrade, introducing NFT-based staking and new ‘Eco Node’ tiers.

The upcoming Hayabusa testnet (scheduled for September 2025) aims to reduce network congestion and further boost enterprise utility.

Apart from BitGo, the other two collaborations are bound to bring additional updates to the blockchain. With Franklin Templeton’s BENJI platform, businesses can access and transact capital using tokenized government-backed liquidity on VeChain, offering fast, transparent settlement and reduced counterparty risk.

BENJI is already live on multiple blockchains such as Stellar, Ethereum, Arbitrum, and others, but integrating VeChain gives it exposure to a low-cost, enterprise-focused Layer‑1.

Furthermore, Keyrock’s trading and validator tools provide institutional-grade security, compliance, and functionality for VeChain.