Chronicle Powers Grove and Galaxy Digital's First $500M Warehouse Facility

Chronicle is powering the data layer behind Grove and Galaxy Digital’s (“Galaxy” or “Galaxy Digital”) first institutional warehouse lending facility — a $500M vehicle financing Galaxy's origination of senior secured loans to institutional borrowers.

The facility

Galaxy Digital acts as originator: it underwrites credit facilities to institutional counterparties, secures them against digital asset collateral, and services the loan book through its existing infrastructure. Grove provides the warehouse facility, committing USDS capital through a dedicated lending vehicle. The structure mirrors the model used in mortgage and auto lending for decades: an originator builds a receivables portfolio, and a warehouse lender advances against that collateral pool.

For transactions like these, we want to see the state of the collateral as it moves, not as it's reported at period-end. Chronicle's attested data lets us monitor the facility's conditions continuously, and that's part of what makes a structure like this work with onchain capital." — Sam Paderewski, Co-Founder, Grove

Two Layers of Security back the facility

The facility benefits from two levels of security. Grove's advances are secured by a lien on the loan portfolio, while each underlying loan is separately overcollateralized by digital assets pledged by the borrower. Eligible collateral is restricted to Bitcoin and Ether, including natively staked and liquid-staked ETH, held with qualified custodians Anchorage Digital and BitGo. The underlying loans are senior secured, denominated in U.S. dollars or stablecoins, and short dated, with tenors of two years or less.

The guardrails are enforced, not just stated

Every advance is sized against a coverage ratio. Cross a defined LTV threshold and it triggers a margin call; cross further, and the facility can terminate. Each drawn position sits on its own first-loss cushion. Layered on top: eligibility rules, segregated custody, borrower net-worth requirements, and concentration caps on maturity and collateral type.

None of these controls are new — any credit desk would recognize them. What's different is how they're enforced. Instead of a borrower certifying compliance once a quarter, every one of these conditions resolves to a live number the facility can check at any moment.

That distinction is the whole point

A covenant only checked quarterly is a disclosure, it tells you what already happened. A covenant checked continuously is real-time risk management — it tells you what's happening now, while there's still time to act.

Chronicle's role

Chronicle provides the Proof of Asset layer beneath the facility. Collateral balances are read from the custodians, loan positions from the servicer, collateral balances are priced against independent feeds, composed into a signed payload and published onchain. That payload is what makes the credit agreement continuously testable. Loan-to-value is not a figure the borrower reports and the lender reconciles at period-end — it is derived from verified data inputs and recomputed on every publication. Each loan and the portfolio as a whole is measured against the conditions written into the agreement:

• Loan-to-value margin-call and termination thresholds
• Collateral eligibility and single-currency rules
• Concentration limits across collateral types
• Segregated custody at approved custodians
• Facility-level capacity and net-worth conditions

The value here is real-time risk management. Covenant status stops being something a lender reconstructs from a periodic certificate and becomes something observable as conditions move: coverage against the required ratio, headroom to margin-call and termination thresholds, concentration against caps, eligibility as the book turns over. That changes what a risk team can do. A deteriorating position is visible while there is still room to act on it, i.e. to call for collateral, pause draws, or reprice, rather than surfacing weeks later in a reporting pack. Where a condition cannot be evaluated, it reads as unevaluated rather than passing by default, so gaps in the data are themselves a monitored signal rather than a silent assumption.

An evolving position across the credit chain

Chronicle's role in Grove and Galaxy Digital’s transactions is deepening, and the progression signals where onchain credit is heading. Previously, Chronicle's Proof of Asset framework served as the data verification layer for Galaxy Digital’s first tokenized CLO, a structured credit product anchored by roughly $50 million from Grove. There, Chronicle made the holdings behind a finished, packaged loan pool continuously verifiable.

The warehouse facility moves one step earlier in the credit chain. Instead of verifying a pool of loans after it has been assembled, Chronicle now verifies collateral at the point of origination. The same verification layer now runs the length of the credit chain, from origination through securitization.

"This is the second time our Proof of Asset layer has sat inside a Grove and Galaxy Digital transaction. With the CLO we made a finished loan pool verifiable; here we're checking collateral at the point of origination. The same layer now runs the full length of the credit chain." — Niklas Kunkel, Chronicle Founder

Check out the Galaxy Warehouse facility on the Chronicle Dashboard.

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