Bitget has launched Project Archimedes, a $300 million institutional funding program built for quantitative trading firms, asset management companies and market makers. The company said the initiative is intended to help institutional trading teams scale their strategies, improve capital efficiency and capture new opportunities in digital assets and tokenized markets.
Two funding tracks under the new program
Bitget said Project Archimedes is structured around two dedicated programs for teams at different stages of growth.
- Capital Provider Program ($100 million): designed for emerging and growth-stage quant firms looking to accelerate market-neutral strategies. Bitget will provide capital directly and share returns under an agreed risk framework and profit-sharing arrangement.
- Interest-Free Lending Program ($200 million): aimed at established institutions with mature strategies and existing trading scale. Qualified teams that meet specified trading-volume or position requirements can access zero-interest capital to lower funding costs and expand strategy deployment.
Bitget said institutional trading has entered a new phase, with access to capital, execution quality and risk management becoming more decisive for strategy scaling. As competition in the traditional crypto market intensifies and arbitrage returns narrow, quant teams have started looking at newer market structures such as basis spreads, funding-rate spreads and tokenized assets.
Gracy Chen says capital is often the bottleneck
Bitget CEO Gracy Chen said, 「Excellent strategies often run into one bottleneck: what limits their growth is no longer talent, but capital.」
She added, 「Project Archimedes gives strong teams the engine they need to scale, while combining capital, risk control and execution around sustainable performance. Our goal is to use this pool of capital to support more than 50 high-quality projects over the next six months.」
Unified Account structure tied to capital efficiency
The name of the program comes from Archimedes' well-known line that, given the right fulcrum, one could move the Earth. For institutional trading teams, Bitget said, capital is that fulcrum, while product design and trading infrastructure determine how efficiently capital can be used.
Using tokenized U.S. stocks as an example, the company said arbitrage opportunities often come from basis differences and funding-rate gaps between spot and derivatives markets. Those strategies usually require institutions to hold positions on both sides of a trade, which can leave margin locked across separate accounts.
Under Bitget's Unified Account structure, eligible rToken spot positions can be used directly as collateral for derivatives trading without repeated transfers between different accounts. The setup allows institutions to keep tokenized equity positions while deploying related futures strategies in the same account, which Bitget said can materially improve the use of available capital.
Bitget also said collateral valuation over the weekend will reference the Friday closing price of the underlying U.S. stock, providing a stable benchmark while traditional U.S. equity markets are closed.
Initial focus on market-neutral strategies with measurable controls
In the early stage, the program will focus on market-neutral strategies with a clear operating history and quantifiable risk-control systems. All participating institutions will need to pass strategy assessments, due diligence checks and drawdown reviews.
Bitget described the initiative as a long-term capital partnership framework with rolling recruitment and phased deployment. Its institutional business unit plans to continue disclosing project updates, including the number of participating institutions, the amount of capital deployed and the distribution of strategies. The company also said it will publish product-specification details, market-structure research and institutional case studies to show how participating teams are using capital and trading infrastructure.
According to Bitget, the program also strengthens the role of its institutional business as a capital partner with market insight, linking institutional teams to deeper liquidity, a unified trading infrastructure and an international institutional network. Through direct capital support and interest-free lending, the company said the program is meant to help emerging teams build a stronger base and help mature institutions turn proven strategies into larger trading scale.
Company details included in the announcement
The article said Bitget was founded in 2018 and described it as the world's largest all-in-one exchange, or UEX. The company said it serves more than 120 million users across over 200 countries and regions and offers copy trading and other trading solutions.
The announcement also described Bitget Wallet as a non-custodial crypto wallet that supports more than 130 blockchain networks and millions of tokens, with direct access to more than 20,000 decentralized applications, or DApps.
Bitget said it is the official cryptocurrency partner of LALIGA in East Asia, Southeast Asia and Latin America. It also said it is working with the United Nations Children's Fund, or UNICEF, with a goal of providing blockchain education support to 1.1 million people by the end of 2027. In motorsports, the company said it is the exclusive cryptocurrency exchange partner of MotoGP.
The article further said Bitget Wallet serves more than 80 million users, supports more than 130 major public blockchains and millions of crypto assets, and has set up a $300 million user protection fund to strengthen asset security.
Risk disclosure
The article noted that digital asset prices can be volatile and may experience sharp swings. Investors were advised to use only funds they can afford to lose, seek independent financial advice and evaluate their own financial experience and circumstances. The piece added that past performance does not guarantee future results and should not be treated as financial advice.