GalaxyOne Head Wants Retail Investors to Stake More, Predict Less

For Galaxy’s retail funding platform, enabling clients to wager on the information isn’t a precedence, in keeping with Zac Prince, head of GalaxyOne. Fairly, the service that debuted in October is being in-built a method that’s supposed to reward traders’ endurance, he instructed Decrypt.

Inside the context of Galaxy’s broader enterprise, Prince mentioned the monetary providers and funding administration agency is already in an excellent place so far as prediction markets are involved, offering institutional purchasers with inside buying and selling and danger administration.

On the subject of customers that GalaxyOne was constructed for, who’ve wherever between $100,000 and $1 million in investible belongings, he described prediction markets as instruments that will not align with many prosperous customers for constructing long-term wealth.

“For particular person customers, I’m not significantly enthusiastic about it versus different issues we now have on our roadmap,” he mentioned. “I haven’t been capable of finding a use case for somebody who’s constructing a diversified portfolio—that they’re going to allocate to for the long run—for prediction markets.”



In some methods, the sentiment echoes commentary from Charles Schwab President and CEO Rick Wurster, who indicated this week that America’s largest low cost brokerage would restrict prediction-market entry to wagers centered on monetary occasions if it enters that territory.

Prince argued that there are two methods to achieve success as a consumer-facing monetary providers providing: cater to traders who need time out there to be the driving pressure, like Vanguard or Betterment, or search clients that view themselves as energetic merchants. 

Retail brokerages like Robinhood have embraced prediction markets by working with Kalshi, offering what analysts have described as a sports-fueled tailwind. Nonetheless, Prince indicated GalaxyOne isn’t attempting to develop a platform “the place you need individuals to log in each day.”

GalaxyOne started supporting Solana staking final month, enabling people to earn rewards by locking up tokens and taking part within the strategy of validating the community’s transactions. Within the not-too-distant future, Prince mentioned that GalaxyOne plans to assist Ethereum staking.

Till the top of this yr, the agency has waived commissions on Solana staking rewards that clients obtain. Lending providers that GalaxyOne plans to supply sooner or later will permit traders to borrow towards staked Solana and Ethereum whereas nonetheless incomes rewards. 

“We’re actually enthusiastic about that product,” Prince added.

Staking has enabled opponents like Coinbase to diversify income away from a reliance on buying and selling charges, which are likely to fluctuate alongside market situations. The crypto alternate disclosed in February that it generated $677 million from staking in 2025, down 4% year-over-year, citing decrease common crypto costs in a shareholder letter.

Presently, GalaxyOne’s clients are exhibiting a choice for 8% returns on money that the platform’s “premium yield” product helps, Prince mentioned, describing the providing as among the many most differentiated that the corporate has debuted up to now.

This week, Galaxy introduced that its retail funding platform was poised to start accepting U.S. companies and entities as clients. Prince famous that the transfer gives an all-in-one place for these clients to handle financial institution, brokerage, and crypto accounts.

“I believe enterprise accounts will get some traction as a result of it’s comparatively distinctive,” Prince mentioned. “For people, there’s different platforms which have that.”