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Galaxy adds $100M sUSDS to treasury and approves sUSDS as institutional collateral

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Galaxy allocated $100 million of Sky Protocol’s yield-bearing sUSDS to its corporate treasury and approved sUSDS as eligible collateral across an institutional trading business with an average $1.4 billion loan book. It also purchased an undisclosed amount of SKY, extending an existing lending relationship with the Sky ecosystem.

TL;DR

  • Galaxy added $100 million of Sky Protocol’s sUSDS to its corporate treasury.
  • It approved sUSDS as collateral across an institutional trading business with an average $1.4 billion loan book.
  • Galaxy bought an undisclosed amount of SKY, deepening ties with the Sky ecosystem.

sUSDS Moves From DeFi Asset To Institutional Collateral

Galaxy funded the $100 million sUSDS position from its own balance sheet and opened the token for use as collateral by institutional clients. The trading business serves more than 1,600 counterparties and carries an average loan book of roughly $1.4 billion.

Clients pledging sUSDS continue earning the Sky Savings Rate while the asset secures their borrowing. This mirrors traditional markets, where Treasury securities earn yield while serving as collateral. Bringing that model onchain tests stablecoin-based finance. Galaxy also acquired an undisclosed amount of SKY.

The Relationship Already Goes Beyond This $100M Allocation

Grove, part of the Sky ecosystem, provides Galaxy with a $500 million warehouse facility used to finance institutional loans backed by digital assets. Galaxy has also borrowed through Spark as part of its onchain financing strategy.

Adding sUSDS to the treasury and collateral framework connects these components: a yield-bearing asset from Sky now sits on Galaxy’s balance sheet and within its institutional credit operation. Institutional adoption of DeFi can resemble familiar credit workflows — yield-bearing dollar assets, secured loans, and collateral management — with settlement and accounting moved onchain via assets like sUSDS and stablecoin-based infrastructure. This $100 million allocation provides a concrete example of that shift and of onchain yield embedded in collateral usage.