Crypto Currents: Galaxy Digital posts $216M Q1 loss

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Galaxy Digital kicked off crypto earnings season Tuesday with a wider-than-expected Q1 loss, as a broad market selloff erased principal investment gains and compressed trading volumes across the sector. Hut 8 simultaneously priced a $3.25B investment-grade bond to fund a 245 MW AI data center, the largest single capital raise yet from the miner-to-infrastructure cohort. On the structural side, Broadridge Financial Solutions and Ondo Finance reached a milestone that custody desks have been watching closely, extending full shareholder voting rights to holders of tokenized equities for the first time. Rounding out the session, Eightco Holdings disclosed a $333M mixed digital asset treasury anchored by the world’s largest known institutional Worldcoin position, and Exodus Movement revealed that U.K. receivers have been appointed over three of its subsidiaries following a $70M loan default. Stay up on the crypto news that matters with “Crypto Currents,” daily from The Fly. Join us at 2 PM ET for your essential briefing on the fast-moving world of cryptocurrency on FlyCast radio.

GALAXY DIGITAL Q1 MISS: Galaxy Digital the company’s earnings results. The firm posted adjusted EBITDA of (188M) and ended the quarter with $2.6B in cash and stablecoins. Despite the headline miss, Galaxy delivered its first completed data hall at the Helios campus to CoreWeave On-chain monitors tracked two Galaxy-linked wallets depositing a combined 45,000 ether (ETH-USD) worth roughly $104M to Binance, Bybit, and OKX in staggered tranches overnight, a multi-venue distribution pattern consistent with pre-sale positioning.

HUT 8 AI BOND PRICING: Hut 8 (HUT) priced a $3.25B private offering of 6.192% senior secured notes due 2042, issued through subsidiary Hut 8 DC LLC, to finance construction of a 245 MW data center at its River Bend campus, with the transaction expected to close April 30, 2026, per the company’s investor relations website. The notes are structured as non-recourse to Hut 8, ring-fencing the parent from downside should the data center ramp miss contracted hyperscaler demand. At $3.25B for a single campus build, the deal is the largest disclosed capital raise from the mining-to-AI infrastructure cohort to date. The coupon at 6.192% reflects investor demand for contracted power assets at a time when grid-scale data center capacity remains constrained across ERCOT and PJM territories.

BROADRIDGE TOKENIZED VOTING: Broadridge Financial Solutions a press release. The arrangement resolves one of the most-cited structural gaps in institutional real-world asset adoption, as tokenized equities previously could not replicate the full bundle of governance rights attached to traditional shares. The Broadridge integration means tokenized equity now carries proxy, information, and voting entitlements that are operationally equivalent to those of street-name holders, removing a key barrier that custodians and fund administrators have pointed to when evaluating whether to support real-world asset platforms.

EIGHTCO MIXED ASSET TREASURY: Eightco Holdings disclosed total holdings of approximately $333M as of April 27, comprising a $90M indirect position in OpenAI equity through special purpose vehicles, a $25M investment in Beast Industries, 11,068 ether, 283,452,700 worldcoin (WLD-USD) tokens representing roughly 8.58% of circulating supply at 25c per token, and $121M in cash and stablecoins. The composition sets Eightco apart from single-asset crypto treasury vehicles, pairing digital asset beta with private-market exposure to OpenAI and MrBeast’s media enterprise. The worldcoin position is the largest publicly disclosed institutional holding of that token globally, and management noted that World ID has seen rapid enterprise integration in recent weeks across Tinder ZM” style=””>(ZM), and Docusign EXODUS SUBSIDIARIES IN RECEIVERSHIP: Exodus Movement U.K. Receivers from AlixPartners have been appointed over Monavate Holdings, Monavate, and Baanx.com, three subsidiaries of W3C Corp, after W3C defaulted on a $70M secured term loan governed by English law. Exodus stated it intends to bid in the resulting sale process, meaning the company could reacquire the assets at distressed prices or lose them entirely to a third-party bidder.

PRICE ACTION: As of time of writing, bitcoin was trading at $76,054.02, while ether was trading at $2,275.27, according to price data from TipRanks.