# Galaxy

> Galaxy Digital is a New York-based public company that combines an institutional digital-assets franchise with a fast-growing data-center business. Its financial platform spans trading, lending, investment banking, asset management, staking, custody infrastructure, tokenization and consumer investing through GalaxyOne, while its Helios campus in West Texas supplies critical IT capacity for AI and high-performance-computing workloads. The unusual pairing gives Galaxy two ways to sell infrastructure to the code economy: financial rails for moving value and physical rails for running compute.

- **Founded:** 2018
- **Headquarters:** New York City, United States
- **Founders:** Michael Novogratz (Founder and CEO)
- **Team size:** Approximately 700 employees, according to supplied company data; Galaxy reported more than 520 employees at year-end 2024.
- **Products:** Galaxy Global Markets, Galaxy Asset Management, Galaxy Infrastructure, GalaxyOne, GalaxyOne Institutional
- **Notable:** Began trading on Nasdaq under GLXY in May 2025 after reorganizing as a Delaware corporation., Ended 2025 with $12 billion in assets on platform and 1,620 institutional trading counterparties., Delivered 133 MW of critical IT load at Helios to CoreWeave in July 2026, putting Phase I into service.

## Products & services

- **Galaxy Global Markets** — Institutional trading, liquidity, OTC execution, derivatives, lending, structured financing and investment-banking advisory for digital assets.
- **Galaxy Asset Management** — ETFs, alternative funds, venture strategies and active and passive investment products spanning digital assets and technology themes.
- **Galaxy Infrastructure** — Institutional staking, tokenization and self-custody technology, including the custody infrastructure formerly known as GK8.
- **GalaxyOne** — A U.S. platform for individuals combining high-yield cash, eligible premium-yield investments, crypto trading and U.S. stocks and ETFs.
- **GalaxyOne Institutional** — An institutional platform for banks, asset managers and other professional clients to access trading and related digital-asset services.
- **Helios Data Center Campus** — A West Texas campus developed for AI and high-performance-computing tenants; Phase I delivered 133 MW of critical IT load to CoreWeave in 2026.
- **GOFR** — An institutional onchain financing program that gives borrowers an optimized financing rate while Galaxy remains their counterparty.
- **Galaxy Curator** — Institutional onchain vault strategies built on Morpho and distributed through Fireblocks Earn, with risk tiers for different appetites.
- **OTC Prediction Markets Trading** — Block liquidity and institutional execution for event contracts on regulated and crypto-native prediction-market venues.

## Achievements

- Began trading on Nasdaq under GLXY in May 2025 after reorganizing as a Delaware corporation.
- Ended 2025 with $12 billion in assets on platform and 1,620 institutional trading counterparties.
- Delivered 133 MW of critical IT load at Helios to CoreWeave in July 2026, putting Phase I into service.
- Secured more than 1.6 GW of approved, utility-contracted capacity at Helios.
- Expanded its potential data-center development pipeline beyond 5.7 GW across Texas sites by August 2026.
- Received a New York BitLicense and Money Transmission License in May 2026.
- Executed a $9 billion notional bitcoin sale in 2025, described by the company as one of the largest such transactions.
- Launched GalaxyOne for U.S. individual investors in October 2025.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Bank Leumi selected GalaxyOne Institutional and Galaxy custody infrastructure to support digital-asset trading for Israeli banking customers, with launch expected in early 2027.
- **2026-08** — Galaxy reported Q2 results, including $20 million of adjusted gross profit from Data Centers and a total development pipeline exceeding 5.7 GW of potential power capacity.
- **2026-08** — Galaxy and BNY announced a multi-year digital-asset infrastructure collaboration that includes staking support.
- **2026-07** — Galaxy acquired a 500-acre data-center site in McGregor, Texas, expanding beyond Helios.
- **2026-07** — Galaxy launched its Institutional Vault Curator and GOFR onchain financing program.
- **2026-07** — Galaxy completed Helios Phase I, delivering 133 MW of critical IT load to CoreWeave.
- **2026-06** — Galaxy launched institutional OTC prediction-markets trading.
- **2026-05** — Galaxy received a New York BitLicense and Money Transmission License for institutional services.

## Links

- Website: https://www.galaxy.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/galaxyhq/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/GalaxyHQ
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@galaxydigitalhq
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/galaxydigitalhq/

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Last updated: 2026-08-14