On Thursday, digital assets financial services firm Galaxy Digital unveiled Galaxy Curator – its Morpho-based institutional vault curation business. The new venture will give Fireblocks’ clients seamless access to on-chain vault strategies.
Galaxy bets on institutional appetite for DeFi
According to a press release issued Thursday, Galaxy Curator will allow Galaxy’s clients to earn yields on their idle sitting stablecoin holdings. Notably, clients will be able to benefit from the strategy without actually having to manage the underlying DeFi infrastructure.
Galaxy Curator can be tapped through Fireblocks Earn – an in-house Fireblocks platform that allows entities to deploy their dollar-pegged digital assets. It is geared toward addressing a major hurdle hindering institutions from fully capturing the benefits of DeFi strategies – that of operational holds due to the complexity and risks associated with direct DeFi interaction.
Specifically, almost 2,400 clients registered with Fireblocks will be able to redirect their existing treasury and custody workflows toward on-chain lending strategies. Galaxy Curator comes at a time when professional vault curation is becoming its own segment in the market.
An increasing number of asset managers, trading firms, and financial technology entities are competing among each other to develop institutional-grade on-chain yield products. Since 2025, companies like Bitwise, Wintermute, Gauntlet, and others, have all launched their curated vault offerings on Morpho.
Crypto platforms are also expanding beyond offering just basic trading, resulting in greater competition to package on-chain investment products. In July, Robinhood unveiled their tokenization strategy through Robinhood Chain.
The platform has already added tokenized stocks, decentralized lending, and similar DeFi offerings to pull traditional financial assets in a blockchain environment.
In the same vein, Kraken launched its xStocks ecosystem, enabling eligible users to trade U.S. equities and deploy them across DeFi – including as collateral and in yield-generating strategies.
Tokenization is all the rage in 2026
On-chain tokenization is picking tremendous momentum in 2026, with innovative use-cases across different financial products. On Wednesday, Canton Fitzgerald allied with Securitize to bring tokenization to IPOs.
Similarly, on Monday, South Korea announced plans to pilot tokenized government bonds with central bank digital currencies in 2027. The UK isn’t far behind, as it recently unveiled a taskforce to tokenize and scale its whole financial markets.
