XML 49 R33.htm IDEA: XBRL DOCUMENT v3.25.1
DIGITAL ASSETS
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2025
Galaxy Digital Holdings, LP  
Crypto Asset, Holding [Line Items]  
DIGITAL ASSETS DIGITAL ASSETS
The following tables provide additional detail related to the digital assets as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024:
(in thousands)Digital intangible assets, currentDigital financial assetsDigital intangible assets, non-current
March 31, 2025
Digital intangible assets (includes $1,020.2 million measured at fair value)
$1,054,836 $— $4,957 $1,059,793 
Digital financial assets— 126,950 — 126,950 
Total self-custodied (1)
1,054,836 126,950 4,957 1,186,743 
Digital intangible assets (includes $471.0 million measured at fair value)
589,898 — 10,073 599,971 
Digital financial assets— 350,949 — 350,949 
Total held with third parties, including centralized trading platforms
589,898 350,949 10,073 950,920 
Collateral posted with counterparties (2) (measured at fair value)
195,059   195,059 
Receipt tokens from decentralized finance protocols (3)
112,155 20,095 — 132,250 
Other digital assets associated with decentralized finance protocols (3) (4)
171,912 16,485 — 188,397 
Total digital assets associated with decentralized finance protocols
284,067 36,580  320,647 
Total digital assets
$2,123,860 $514,479 $15,030 $2,653,369 
(in thousands)Digital intangible assets, currentDigital financial assetsDigital intangible assets, non-current
December 31, 2024
Digital intangible assets (includes $1,480.9 million measured at fair value)
$1,544,377 $— $75 $1,544,452 
Digital financial assets— 353,459 — 353,459 
Total self-custodied (1)
1,544,377 353,459 75 1,897,911 
Digital intangible assets (includes $451.4 million measured at fair value)
523,002 — 20,904 543,906 
Digital financial assets— 1,392 — 1,392 
Total held with third parties, including centralized trading platforms
523,002 1,392 20,904 545,298 
Collateral posted with counterparties (2) (measured at fair value)
85,874   85,874 
Receipt tokens from decentralized finance protocols (3)
298,263 — — 298,263 
Other digital assets associated with decentralized finance protocols (3) (4)
96,065 4,814 — 100,879 
Total digital assets associated with decentralized finance protocols
394,328 4,814  399,142 
Total digital assets
$2,547,581 $359,665 $20,979 $2,928,225 
_______________
(1)Includes digital assets subject to sale restrictions, as well as certain digital assets bonded to validator nodes. Excludes digital assets issued by decentralized finance protocols which are self-custodied.
(2)Digital intangible assets posted as collateral under master loan agreements to third parties, for which control has not transferred, supports digital asset and fiat borrowings of $117.6 million and $53.7 million as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively.
(3)Digital assets associated with decentralized finance protocols collectively support borrowings on these platforms of $23.2 million and $124.9 million as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively. Decentralized finance protocols typically require borrowers to maintain a loan to value ratio of no greater than 70% and 100%.
(4)Includes self-custodied wrapped digital assets and digital assets held in smart contracts where the Company retains control.
Digital Assets Associated with Decentralized Finance Protocols
Receipt Tokens from Decentralized Finance Protocols
Receipt tokens from decentralized finance protocols are digital assets issued by decentralized protocols which derive their value from other digital assets. These tokens allow the holder to redeem the underlying digital assets from the decentralized protocols. Although these receipt tokens are generally stored in the Company’s self-custodied wallets, their economic values are derived from the operations of the protocols that issued the tokens and other digital assets that are held in such protocols via smart contracts. These receipt tokens are used in trading, borrowing and staking on decentralized finance protocols.
Other Digital Assets Associated with Decentralized Finance Protocols
In order to transact on decentralized finance protocols, the Company converts some of its digital assets into wrapped tokens (e.g., “wBTC” and “wETH”). Wrapped tokens are digital assets that can interact with smart contracts or operate on another blockchain. The Company typically wraps digital assets in expectation of deploying them on decentralized finance protocols.
Some decentralized finance protocols may hold the Company’s digital assets in a smart contract from which only the Company can redeem the digital assets. These decentralized finance protocols do not issue receipt tokens and do not obtain control of the Company’s digital assets. Therefore the tokens continue to be recognized by the Company.
Digital Assets Subject to Lock-up Schedules
Certain digital assets are subject to sale restrictions through lock-up schedules typically associated with purchases from foundations. Digital assets restricted by lock-up schedules which have not yet been received by the Company are recognized as Digital assets receivable.
The Company held $41.4 million and $59.9 million of digital assets restricted by lock-up schedules as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024. The fair value of digital assets subject to sale restrictions by lock-up schedule acquired prior to January 1, 2024 includes a discount for lack of marketability. Sale restrictions associated with these digital assets range from approximately one week to approximately 3 years.
Staked Digital Assets
The Company had staked $266.8 million and $371.7 million of digital assets, including digital assets staked on decentralized finance protocols (i.e., liquid staked tokens), as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively. The Company’s ability to sell or transfer staked digital assets is subject to restrictions related to unbonding periods, which are based on network traffic on the respective blockchains. As of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, the majority of staked digital assets on various blockchains including Ethereum could be unbonded within 7 and 11 days, respectively. The majority of the Company’s staked digital assets are bonded to nodes operated by the Company. The blockchain rewards generated from proprietary staking activities for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024 were $6.2 million and $12.3 million, respectively.
Digital Assets Rollforward
The following tables summarize the activity within our significant digital asset classes for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and the year ended December 31, 2024:
Assets (in thousands)
Carrying value as of December 31, 2024
Purchases and receipts (1)
Sales or disbursements (2)
Net transferred (borrow / loaned) (3)
Impairment
Gains (4)
Losses (4)
Carrying value as of March 31, 2025
Digital intangible assets$550,203 $2,906,707 $(3,122,560)$153,760 $(112,429)$76,888 $(55)$452,514 
Digital intangible assets at fair value2,018,357 11,118,886 (11,141,072)265,154 — 347,812 (922,761)1,686,376 
Digital financial assets359,665 4,092,639 (3,940,321)4,707 — 973 (3,184)514,479 
Total digital assets
$2,928,225 $18,118,232 $(18,203,953)$423,621 $(112,429)$425,673 $(926,000)$2,653,369 
Assets (in thousands)
Carrying value as of December 31, 2023
Purchases and receipts (1)
Sales or disbursements (2)
Net transferred (borrow / loaned) (3)
Impairment
Gains (4)
Losses (4)
Carrying value as of December 31, 2024
Digital intangible assets$277,634 $13,951,687 $(13,788,542)$(54,557)$(331,920)$522,732 $(26,831)$550,203 
Digital intangible assets at fair value736,151 36,373,625 (36,833,231)717,704 — 2,772,182 (1,748,074)2,018,357 
Digital financial assets74,386 12,231,270 (11,756,032)(190,266)— 2,507 (2,200)359,665 
Total digital assets
$1,088,171 $62,556,582 $(62,377,805)$472,881 $(331,920)$3,297,421 $(1,777,105)$2,928,225 
_______________
(1)Includes receipts of digital intangible assets and digital financial assets resulting from non-revenue transactions (e.g., cross-chain swaps of similar assets), receipt of loan interest, and pre-launch investments and other investment distributions.
(2)Digital intangible assets consists of digital assets sales costs, excluding impairment, included within Transaction expense in the condensed consolidated interim statement of operations and disbursements of digital assets to satisfy certain liabilities. Digital financial assets includes disbursements to satisfy certain liabilities.
(3)Includes all movements impacting the Digital intangible assets and Digital financial assets line items in the condensed consolidated interim statement of financial position associated with digital asset lending and borrowing activities including collateral and fair value revaluations, as applicable.
(4)Includes realized gains of $365.2 million and $3.2 billion and realized losses of $820.7 million and $1.6 billion for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and the year ended December 31, 2024, respectively.
Significant Digital Asset Holdings
The Company’s digital asset balance includes digital assets borrowed from counterparties, deposited by counterparties as collateral for which Galaxy has control, and any digital assets which Galaxy has pledged as
collateral and retains control. The following tables show our most significant gross digital asset holdings as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024:
March 31, 2025
(in thousands except for quantity)QuantityHistorical costCarrying value
Bitcoin12,830 $1,089,965 $1,058,936 
USDC426,423,591 426,867 426,338 
Ether
155,026 301,742 282,468 
SOL995,072 124,293 123,918 
XRP16,931,695 38,010 35,380 
USDG30,558,143 30,566 30,558 
SUI12,037,421 30,124 27,283 
Othernot meaningful274,143 215,974 
Digital assets measured at fair value
2,315,710 2,200,855 
Digital assets not measured at fair value
not meaningful511,991 452,514 
Total digital assets
$2,827,701 $2,653,369 
December 31, 2024
(in thousands except for quantity)QuantityHistorical costCarrying value
Bitcoin13,704 $1,335,194 $1,277,816 
Ether112,248 378,907 373,871 
USDC333,713,029 334,224 333,652 
SOL498,767 73,567 94,288 
UNI5,216,565 71,911 68,922 
TIA9,626,784 17,995 34,116 
Othernot meaningful231,228 195,357 
Digital assets measured at fair value
2,443,026 2,378,022 
Digital assets not measured at fair value
not meaningful598,295 550,203 
Total digital assets
$3,041,321 $2,928,225 
As of March 31, 2025 approximately 40% and 15% of the Company’s digital assets associated with decentralized finance protocols relate to digital assets issued by Coinbase wrapped bitcoin and Aave, respectively.
DIGITAL ASSETS
The following tables provide additional detail related to the digital assets for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023:
(in thousands)
Digital intangible assets, current
Digital financial assets
Digital intangible assets, non-current
December 31, 2024
Digital intangible assets (includes $1.5 billion measured at fair value)
$1,544,377 $— $75 $1,544,452 
Digital financial assets— 353,459 — 353,459 
Total self-custodied (1)
1,544,377 353,459 75 1,897,911 
Digital intangible assets (includes $451.4 million measured at fair value)
523,002 — 20,904 543,906 
Digital financial assets— 1,392 — 1,392 
Total held with third parties, including centralized trading platforms
523,002 1,392 20,904 545,298 
Collateral posted with counterparties(2) (measured at fair value)
85,874   85,874 
Receipt tokens from decentralized finance protocols(3)
298,263 — — 298,263 
Other digital assets associated with decentralized finance protocols(3)(4)
96,065 4,814 — 100,879 
Total digital assets associated with decentralized finance protocols
394,328 4,814  399,142 
Total digital assets
$2,547,581 $359,665 $20,979 $2,928,225 
(in thousands)
Digital intangible assets, current
Digital financial assets
Digital intangible assets, non-current
December 31, 2023
Digital intangible assets (includes $528.3 million measured at fair value)
$530,579 $— $41,356 $571,935 
Digital financial assets— 73,302 — 73,302 
Total self-custodied(1)
530,579 73,302 41,356 645,237 
Digital intangible assets (includes $112.6 million measured at fair value)
178,577 — — 178,577 
Digital financial assets— 1,084 — 1,084 
Total held with third parties, including centralized trading platforms
178,577 1,084  179,661 
Collateral posted with counterparties(2) (measured at fair value)
56,674   56,674 
Receipt tokens from decentralized finance protocols(3)
166,788 — — 166,788 
Other digital assets associated with decentralized finance protocols(3)(4)
39,811 — — 39,811 
Total digital assets associated with decentralized finance protocols
206,599   206,599 
Total digital assets
$972,429 $74,386 $41,356 $1,088,171 
_______________
(1)Includes digital assets subject to sale restrictions, as well as certain digital assets bonded to validator nodes. Excludes digital assets issued by decentralized finance protocols which are self-custodied.
(2)Digital intangible assets posted as collateral under master loan agreements to third parties, for which control has not transferred, supports digital asset and fiat borrowings of $53.7 million and $50.8 million as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
(3)Digital assets associated with decentralized finance protocols collectively support borrowings on these platforms of $124.9 million and $123.0 million as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. Decentralized finance protocols typically require borrowers to maintain a loan to value ratio of 70% and 100%.
(4)Includes self-custodied wrapped digital assets and digital assets held in smart contracts where the Company retains control.
Digital Assets Associated with Decentralized Finance Protocols
Receipt tokens from decentralized finance protocols
Receipt tokens from decentralized finance protocols are digital assets issued by decentralized protocols which derive their value from other digital assets. These tokens allow the holder to redeem the underlying digital assets from the decentralized protocols. Although these receipt tokens are generally stored in the Company's self-custodied wallets, their economic values are derived from the operations of the protocols that issued the tokens and other digital assets that are held in such protocols via smart contracts. These receipt tokens are used in trading, borrowing and staking on decentralized finance protocols.
Other digital assets associated with decentralized finance protocols
In order to transact on decentralized finance protocols, the Company converts some of its digital assets into wrapped tokens (e.g., “wBTC” and “wETH”). Wrapped tokens are digital assets that can interact with smart contracts or operate on another blockchain. The Company typically wraps digital assets in expectation of deploying them on decentralized finance protocols.
Some decentralized finance protocols may hold the Company's digital assets in a smart contract from which only the Company can redeem the digital assets. These decentralized finance protocols do not issue receipt tokens and do not obtain control of the Company's digital assets. Therefore, the tokens continue to be recognized by the Company.
Digital Assets Subject to Lock-up Schedules
Certain digital assets are subject to sale restrictions through lock-up schedules typically associated with purchases from foundations. Digital assets restricted by lock-up schedules which have not yet been received by the Company are recognized as Digital assets receivable.
The Company held $59.9 million and $68.0 million of digital assets restricted by lock-up schedules as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. The fair value of digital assets subject to sale restrictions by lock-up schedule acquired prior to January 1, 2024 includes a discount for lack of marketability. Sale restrictions associated with these digital assets range from approximately one week to approximately 3 years.
Staked Digital Assets
The Company had staked $371.7 million and $163.3 million of digital assets, including digital assets staked on decentralized finance protocols (i.e., liquid staked tokens), as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. The Company’s ability to sell or transfer staked digital assets is subject to restrictions related to unbonding periods, which are based on network traffic on the respective blockchains. As of December 31, 2024 and 2023, the majority of staked digital assets on various blockchains including Ethereum could be unbonded within 11 days, respectively. The majority of the Company’s staked digital assets are bonded to nodes operated by the Company. The blockchain rewards generated from proprietary staking activities for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023, and 2022 was $30.0 million, $4.0 million and $7.5 million, respectively.
Digital Assets Held in Investment Companies
Consolidated subsidiaries that apply the specialized guidance for investment companies in ASC 946, Financial Services—Investment Companies, record their digital asset investments at fair value, with realized and unrealized
gains and losses presented in Net gain / (loss) on digital assets. The Company’s realized gain or loss on a digital asset is calculated as the proceeds received from the sale of the digital asset less its assigned original cost. For the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023, and 2022, the Company recorded net realized gain / (loss) attributable to digital assets held in investment companies of $0, $0, and $(44.6) million, respectively. The net realized and unrealized gains / (losses) on digital assets attributed to the general partners of the consolidated sponsored funds and the gain / (losses) attributed to limited partner noncontrolling interests were recorded in the Treasury and Corporate segment. As of December 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, the Company did not consolidate any of its sponsored investment funds.
Digital Assets Rollforward
The following tables summarize the activity within our significant digital asset classes for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023:
Assets (in thousands)Carrying value as of December 31, 2023
Purchases and receipts (1)
Sales or disbursements (2)
Net transferred (borrow / loaned) (3)
Impairment
Gains(4)
Losses(4)
Carrying value as of December 31, 2024
Digital intangible assets$277,634 $13,951,687 $(13,788,542)$(54,557)$(331,920)$522,732 $(26,831)$550,203 
Digital intangible assets at fair value
736,151 36,373,625 (36,833,231)717,704 — 2,772,182 (1,748,074)2,018,357 
Digital financial assets74,386 12,231,270 (11,756,032)(190,266)— 2,507 (2,200)359,665 
Total digital assets
$1,088,171 $62,556,582 $(62,377,805)$472,881 $(331,920)$3,297,421 $(1,777,105)$2,928,225 
Assets (in thousands)Carrying value as of December 31, 2022
Purchases and receipts (1)
Sales or disbursements (2)
Net transferred (borrow / loaned) (3)
Impairment
Gains(4)
Losses(4)
Carrying value as of December 31, 2023
Digital intangible assets$68,785 $14,479,087 $(14,370,033)$123,493 $(98,340)$128,059 $(53,417)$277,634 
Digital intangible assets at fair value
293,598 43,422,739 (43,308,884)(159,961)— 1,200,898 (712,239)736,151 
Digital financial assets199,632 16,036,792 (16,309,683)135,843 — 12,968 (1,166)74,386 
Total digital assets
$562,015 $73,938,618 $(73,988,600)$99,375 $(98,340)$1,341,925 $(766,822)$1,088,171 
_______________
(1)Includes receipts of digital intangible assets and digital financial assets resulting from non-revenue transactions (e.g., cross-chain swaps of similar assets), receipt of loan interest, and pre-launch investments and other investment distributions.
(2)Digital intangible assets consists of digital assets sales costs, excluding impairment, included within Transaction expense in the consolidated statement of operations and disbursements of digital assets to satisfy certain liabilities. Digital financial assets includes disbursements to satisfy certain liabilities.
(3)Includes all movements impacting the Digital intangible assets and Digital financial assets line items in the consolidated statement of financial position associated with digital asset lending and borrowing activities including collateral and fair value revaluations, as applicable.
(4)Includes realized gains of $3.2 billion and $1.2 billion and realized losses of $1.6 billion and $753.4 million for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
Significant Digital Asset Holdings
The Company's digital asset balance includes digital assets borrowed from counterparties, deposited by counterparties as collateral for which Galaxy has control, and any digital assets which Galaxy has pledged as
collateral and retains control. The following tables show our most significant gross digital asset holdings as of December 31, 2024 and 2023:
December 31, 2024
(in thousands except for quantity)
Quantity
Cost basis
Fair value
Bitcoin13,704 $1,335,194 $1,277,816 
Ether
112,248 378,907 373,871 
USDC
333,713,029 334,224 333,652 
SOL
498,767 73,567 94,288 
UNI
5,216,565 71,911 68,922 
TIA
9,626,784 17,995 34,116 
Other
not meaningful
231,228 195,357 
Digital assets measured at fair value
2,443,026 2,378,022 
Digital assets not measured at fair value
not meaningful
598,295 550,203 
Total digital assets
$3,041,321 $2,928,225 
December 31, 2023
(in thousands except for quantity)
Quantity
Cost basis
Fair value
Bitcoin9,725 $412,517 $411,093 
Ether
70,774 164,210 161,450 
USDC
74,359,987 74,350 74,338 
TIA
12,000,000 2,700 67,536 
Other
not meaningful
94,052 96,120 
Digital assets measured at fair value
747,829 810,537 
Digital assets not measured at fair value
not meaningful
296,357 277,634 
Total digital assets
$1,044,186 $1,088,171 
As of December 31, 2024, approximately 41%, 18%, and 10% of the Company's digital assets associated with decentralized finance protocols relate to digital assets issued by Sky DAO (f.k.a. Maker DAO), Coinbase wrapped bitcoin, and Aave, respectively.