AI Agents Will Control Your Money — BitGo COO Explains

Nominate your company for The BeInCrypto Institutional 100: https://awards.beincrypto.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Wall Street is quietly moving billions onto blockchain rails. Most people have no idea how, or who's behind it. Jody Mettler is the COO of BitGo and President of BitGo Bank & Trust, and one of our nominees for COO of the Year at the BeInCrypto & Proof of Talk Institution 100 Awards, happening at the Louvre in Paris this June. In this conversation, she explains exactly how BitGo's infrastructure works, and why one wrong move could bring it all down. If you think bridge exploits and network downtime are someone else's problem, this episode will change your mind. 💬 In this episode: → How BitGo quietly became Wall Street's crypto backbone → Why institutions can now trade without assets ever leaving custody → What traditional finance actually demands before going on-chain → The real reason bridge exploits terrify institutional players → How a 13-year security stack is the only thing institutions trust → Tokenized real world assets, how they work end-to-end → AI agents controlling money: massive opportunity or financial crisis? → Why identity and permissions are the most underrated topic in Web3 Watch this before you assume institutional crypto is ready for what's coming next. ───────────────────────────── 🏆 Jody Mettler — Nominee, COO of the Year BeInCrypto & Proof of Talk Institution 100 Awards Louvre, Paris — June 2026 🔔 Subscribe — new episodes every week 🌐 BeInCrypto: https://beincrypto.com ───────────────────────────── ⚠️ For informational purposes only. Not financial advice. ───────────────────────────── 🎙️ ABOUT THE BEINCRYPTO PODCAST ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The BeInCrypto brings together the most respected analysts, traders, builders, and thinkers in digital finance for unfiltered, in-depth conversations. No scripts. No paid opinions. Just expertise. 👉 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@Beincrypto 👉 BeInCrypto: https://beincrypto.com 👉 X / Twitter: https://twitter.com/beincrypto 👉 Telegram: https://t.me/+U8DQNp4b8Gw3YmZi ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ For informational purposes only. Not financial advice. 00:00 – BitGo: More Than Just a Vault 00:51 – Go Network: Real-Time Settlement Explained 01:38 – Wall Street's Growing Appetite 02:32 – What Institutions Demand On-Chain 04:29 – Tokenizing Real World Assets 05:41 – Bridge Exploits & Downtime: The Fear Factor 06:42 – BitGo's 13-Year Security Stack 07:55 – Who Is Building on BitGo? 08:31 – AI Agents & Agentic Transactions 09:40 – Why Controls Still Matter in Web3