Galaxy Brains

Galaxy Brains

Welcome to Galaxy Brains, hosted by Alex Thorn, Head of Research at Galaxy. Our weekly podcast provides insights and analysis on trends and events across the cryptocurrency ecosystem. Each week Alex will be joined by members of the research team to discuss the latest developments on all things crypto and blockchain technology.

Episodes

October 29, 2026 • 42 mins
Alex Thorn talks with Galaxy’s head of digital infrastructure Harry Austin about growing interest from traditional banks and brokerages to incorporate blockchain technology. Alex also talks with Beimnet Abebe (Galaxy Trading) about the Fed’s latest rates decision, Bitcoin markets, and the AI trade. This video, and the information contained herein, has been provided to you by Galaxy Digital Holdings LP and its affilia...
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Alex Thorn shares views on Bitcoin market cycles, adoption of crypto and blockchains by traditional capital markets players, the neverending push and pull between decentralization and centralization, and the latest news in tokenized securities, cybersecurity, and stablecoins. This video, and the information contained herein, has been provided to you by Galaxy Digital Holdings LP and its affiliates (“Galaxy Digital”) ...
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October 15, 2026 • 80 mins
Alex Thorn talks with investor Jordi Visser about bitcoin, tokenization, artificial intelligence, and theses for the market over the next decade. Alex also talks with Beimnet Abebe about markets, CPI, and inflation. This video, and the information contained herein, has been provided to you by Galaxy Digital Holdings LP and its affiliates (“Galaxy Digital”) solely for informational purposes. View the full disclaimer a...
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Alex Thorn talks with Beimnet Abebe (Galaxy Trading) about Bitcoin price action, market cycles, Treasury rates, inflation, and AI stocks. Participants, along with Galaxy Digital, hold a financial interest in Bitcoin (BTC). Galaxy regularly engages in buying and selling BTC, including hedging transactions, for its own proprietary accounts and on behalf of its counterparties. Galaxy also provides services to vehicles that invest i...
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September 17, 2026 • 50 mins
Alex Thorn talks with Tyler Williams, former Head of Digital Assets at the U.S. Treasury department, about the outcome of the Clarity Act vote in the U.S. Senate, and where crypto goes from here. Alex also talks with Beimnet Abebe (Galaxy Trading) about the Fed raising rates and market implications. Participants, along with Galaxy Digital, hold a financial interest in Bitcoin (BTC). Galaxy regularly engages in buying and selling B...
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September 10, 2026 • 47 mins
Alex Thorn talks with Zack Pokorny (Galaxy Research) about Robinhood Chain, tokenized stocks, layer 2 networks, social trading like FOMO, and much more. Alex also talks with Beimnet Abebe (Galaxy Trading) about the Federal Reserve, rates, equities, and more. Keep in touch: ▸ Follow us on Twitter: https://x.com/galaxyhq & https://x.com/glxyresearch ▸ Read our research at https://www.galaxy.com/research ▸ Subscribe to receive ...
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September 3, 2026 • 63 mins
Alex Thorn talks with Dan Matuszewski (CMS Holdings) about the state of the crypto market. Alex and Dan discuss whether bitcoin has bottomed, how Robinhood Chain competes with Base, the future of stocks onchain, stablecoin wars, and Tether’s new financial audit. Alex also talks with Connor Finemore (Galaxy Trading) about the durability of the AI trade and what lies ahead for equity markets. Participants, along with Galaxy Di...
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Alex Thorn talks with Gabe Shapiro, CEO of MetaLeX Labs, about onchain corporations, tokenized stocks and companies, and the SEC’s new Regulation Crypto Assets. Alex also talks with Beimnet Abebe (Galaxy Trading) about bitcoin’s recent move higher, whether the rally can last, the impact on markets from Treasury’s new bond buyback strategy, and the durability of the AI trade. Past performance is not indicative o...
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Alex Thorn and Beimnet Abebe (Galaxy Trading) about the Treasury’s expanded bond buyback program, whether yield curve control is happening, and what it means for hard money assets like bitcoin. Alex and Beim also discuss whether BTC has bottomed and whether a bull market is finally ready to resume. Past performance is not indicative of future results.   Participants, along with Galaxy Digital, hold a financial inter...
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Alex Thorn talks with Rob Hamilton (Anchorwatch) about the Red Team utilizing AI to uncover and patch vulnerabilities around the Bitcoin ecosystem in the wake of the Coldcard exploit. Alex also talks with Beimnet Abebe (Galaxy Trading) about inflation, markets, and why he’s constructive on BTC at these levels. Past performance is not indicative of future results.   Participants, along with Galaxy Digital, hold a fin...
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Alex Thorn talks with Natalia Li (Galaxy Head of U.S. Policy) about the state of the CLARITY Act. Alex also talks with Beimnet Abebe (Galaxy Trading) about markets. Participants, along with Galaxy Digital, hold a financial interest in Bitcoin (BTC). Galaxy regularly engages in buying and selling BTC, including hedging transactions, for its own proprietary accounts and on behalf of its counterparties. Galaxy also provides service...
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Alex Thorn talks with Galaxy’s VP of Datacenter Capital Markets Simrit Dhinsa about Galaxy’s AI strategy, sponsorship of Texas Tech’s football stadium, how the AI buildout is affecting energy markets and politics, and the battles between frontier labs and between closed and open source models.
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Alex Thorn talks with Nic Carter (Castle Island) about artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and bitcoin development. Alex and Nic discuss rapidly improving AI models, governments’ likely safety and regulatory responses, competition between frontier labs and open source models, and how markets will evolve due to AI advancement. Alex and Nic also discuss the announcement of the Bitcoin Security Consortium and Bitcoin&rsq...
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Alex Thorn talks with Lucas Tcheyan (Galaxy Research) about compute, AI, and GPU financial markets. Alex also talks with Beimnet Abebe (Galaxy Trading) about CPI, rates, equities, and bitcoin. Participants, along with Galaxy Digital, hold a financial interest in Bitcoin (BTC). Galaxy regularly engages in buying and selling BTC, including hedging transactions, for its own proprietary accounts and on behalf of its counterparties. ...
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July 2, 2026 • 35 mins
In a special episode, Alex Thorn gives his views on all the major topics in crypto markets today. Has Bitcoin bottomed? How will we know when it has? Is Strategy a threat to Bitcoin markets? Did Strategy do the right thing this week? What about tokenized securities, stablecoins, the Ethereum Foundation? And what do the rise of prediction markets and perps say about Bitcoin’s ethos? All of this and more in a rare solo episode ...
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Alex Thorn talks with Gil Wassermann, Galaxy’s Head of Prediction Markets, about the institutional prediction markets use case, Galaxy’s new prediction markets desk, and why the world is crazy for prediction markets. Alex also talks with Beimnet Abebe about the summer doldrums in markets. Galaxy conducts event contracts activity solely with eligible, institutional counterparties and evaluates offerings on a jurisdictio...
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June 18, 2026 • 64 mins
Alex Thorn talks with CZ, founder of Binance, about where we sit in the four-year cycle and whether $60K is the new floor, why there are no dead bodies floating up this time, the great convergence of TradFi and crypto and why he thinks it should just be one industry, perps coming onshore to CME and CBOE, his take on Hyperliquid’s no-KYC model, prediction markets and the state-versus-federal fight, why he’d freeze Satosh...
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Alex Thorn talks with Anthony Pompliano (ProCap) about ProCap’s acquisition of Sylvia, an AI CFO, how AI-generated research could upend Wall Street, Bitcoin treasury companies building operating businesses, the CLARITY Act and the stablecoin yield fight, whether February’s wick below $60K was the bottom, and Pomp’s case for asset inflation alongside consumer deflation. Alex also talks with Beimnet Abebe (Galaxy Tr...
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Alex talks with Beimnet Abebe (Galaxy Trading) about the state of the Bitcoin market, his expected length and depth of its drawdown, and what it takes for BTC to find its footing. Alex also airs an interview with James Seyffart (Bloomberg Intelligence) about growing institutional adoption, Morgan Stanley’s Bitcoin ETF, JPM’s new big presence, and a growing market of niche sector and “hot sauce” ETFs. Past...
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Alex Thorn talks with Yat Siu, founder of Animoca Brands, about the emerging agentic economy and why Yat believes it will be built on crypto. Keep in touch: ▸ Follow us on Twitter: https://x.com/galaxyhq & https://x.com/glxyresearch ▸ Read our research at https://www.galaxy.com/research ▸ Subscribe to receive Galaxy Research's weekly newsletter: https://www.galaxy.com/subscribe-to-r... This video, and the information containe...
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