Concrete official BitGo article
BitGo and Concrete: Custody-Native Yield for Institutional Capital ↗
Panel 1 · The pool
✦✦✦
“We have billions in digital assets sitting in custody.”
A treasury manager sees the assets. The yield question is still open.
Panel 2 · The idle line
“But they’re not generating much productive yield.”
productive yield?
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Custody protects the assets. It does not, by itself, create a strategy.
Panel 3 · The forbidden suggestion
“Move them into DeFi.”
“Absolutely not.”
One person hears “opportunity.” Another hears “incident report.”
Panel 4 · The checklist
×
“We need custody controls, auditability, permissions, reporting and risk limits.”
The checklist is not anti-yield. It is pro-accountability.
Panel 5 · A different proposition
“What if the assets can remain within qualified custody while Concrete provides the vault and yield infrastructure?”
QUALIFIED
CUSTODY
◉
CUSTODY
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A proposal that separates where assets are held from how strategies are coordinated.
Panel 6 · The concept
BITGO
Qualified Custody
Qualified Custody
+
CONCRETE
Vault Infrastructure
Vault Infrastructure
=
CUSTODY-
NATIVE YIELD
NATIVE YIELD
The comic’s shorthand: custody environment plus vault infrastructure. The exact legal and operational scope belongs in diligence.
Panel 7 · Follow the asset
Institutional
Asset
↓Asset
Qualified
Custody
↓Custody
Concrete Vault
Infrastructure
↓Infrastructure
Strategy
Allocation
↓Allocation
Yield
↓Reporting +
Risk Controls
Risk Controls
Conceptual flow, not a promise that every product, deployment or strategy follows these exact steps.
Panel 8 · The distinction
BITGOProvides the qualified custody environment.
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+
CONCRETEProvides vault infrastructure and strategy execution.
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Concrete is not the custodian. Custody and infrastructure are distinct roles.
Panel 9 · Why allocators care
Custody
Compliance
Auditability
Controlled
execution
execution
Yield
Reporting
The institutional appeal is not “more APY at any cost.” It is more productive use of capital inside a controlled operating model.
Panel 10 · The question
“So we don’t have to choose between custody and yield?”
“That is the idea.”
An idea still needs contracts, controls, evidence and oversight.
Final panel · The next user
DeFi’s next user may not be a farmer.
It may be an institution.
It may be an institution.