Galxe

Galxe is a Web3 platform co-founded by Charles Wayn and Harry Zhang, known for its digital identity, credential management, and community engagement services, including Galxe Quest, Galxe ID, and Galxe Passport.

In November 2026, the company announced plans to discontinue these services and consolidate its team and brand under Gravity, its Layer 1 blockchain, shifting its focus toward blockchain infrastructure development. ^[1] ^[18]

Overview

Galxe is an integrated Web3 growth platform and growth engine for project and community growth. Its product suite combines campaign engagement, token distribution, identity and reputation, analytics, and developer infrastructure, including Galxe Quest, Galxe Earndrop, Galxe Passport, Galxe Score, Galxe Identity Protocol, Smart Balance, and Gravity.^[12]^[13]

Galxe is a verifiable credential protocol focused on self-sovereign identity (SSI) services, utilizing zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) techniques. This permissionless, chain-agnostic protocol supports credential issuers, holders, and verifiers and includes features like no-code ZKP. Issuers can create and manage revocable credentials on-chain, holders can selectively disclose information for specific verifications while maintaining pseudonymity, and verifiers can define programmable trust schemas. The protocol also facilitates the minting of soul-bound tokens (SBTs) based on typed credentials and supports no-code compositional verification.^[1]

History

Gravity Alpha Mainnet was an initial live production environment that informed the subsequent Gravity L1. Galxe announced in July 2026 that Gravity L1 Mainnet was operational and that Gravity Alpha Mainnet would permanently stop operating on November 1, 2026. Galxe said the transition consolidated developer resources, liquidity, and tooling instead of splitting them across two networks.^[14]

The Gravity Native Bridge and Galxe G Staking page went offline on October 26, 2026, at 03:00 UTC. Galxe set these deadlines ahead of the Alpha shutdown because withdrawals and unstaking could take seven days. Gravity Alpha Mainnet permanently stopped operating on November 1, 2026; assets left on Alpha after that date are no longer transferable.^[15]

Galxe Announces Service Wind-Down and Consolidation Under Gravity

On November 9, 2026, Galxe announced plans to consolidate its team and brand under Gravity, shifting its focus toward the development and adoption of the Gravity Layer 1 blockchain. The restructuring will involve discontinuing several Galxe services, including Galxe Quest, Galxe ID, Galxe Passport, and related products, while Gravity continues operating independently of the changes.

The decision follows more than five years of Galxe operating as a Web3 engagement and community-building platform. According to the company, its services supported approximately 36 million users and over 7,700 partner projects through campaigns, digital credentials, and loyalty programs. Galxe stated that its experience and existing partnerships would contribute to Gravity's future development.

As part of the transition, Galxe immediately disabled the creation of new campaigns, Galxe+ and Galxe Score subscriptions, and Galxe Passport minting.

December 5, 2026, will be the final day for users to participate in existing campaigns, while December 15, 2026, will mark the deadline for claiming campaign rewards. After that date, the Galxe website will enter read-only mode.

Galxe confirmed that user assets, including Smart Savings balances, unwithdrawn staked G tokens, and G tokens held in wallets on Gravity Alpha Mainnet, remain safe. These assets will be handled through a separate claims process, with further instructions and timelines to be announced through the company's official X account.

The company also stated that Gravity's operations and the G token will remain unaffected by the consolidation. The restructuring marks Galxe's transition away from its original Web3 engagement services toward blockchain infrastructure development under the Gravity brand. ^[18]

Ecosystem

Galxe Identity Protocol

Galxe Identity Protocol is a permissionless, self-sovereign identity infrastructure that leverages Zero-Knowledge Proof to own, manage, and share verifiable credentials securely. It enables builders to develop Sybil prevention algorithms, reputation systems, credit systems, personal data markets, and decentralized review systems. The protocol aims to enhance Galxe's offerings by separating functionality into interconnected components.^[2]

There are four key roles within the Galxe Identity Protocol: Credential Holder, Issuer, Verifier, and Credential Type Designer. Galxe designs and offers various Credential Types for projects on its platform. Campaign owners verify and issue credentials to eligible participants who become Credential Holders.^[2]

At its core, Galxe Identity Protocol comprises on-chain smart contracts and off-chain SDK tools, enabling developers to deploy and utilize contracts for issuing and authenticating credentials. A credential schema consists of the context (e.g., age verification) and the credential type (boolean, yes or no).^[2]

With its decentralized nature, the Galxe Identity Protocol supports chain-agnostic components, ensuring sustainability across all roles. Credential Holders can selectively disclose necessary information under a deterministic pseudonymous identity for specific verification instances. Issuers can create and manage revocable credentials on-chain. At the same time, Verifiers can define programmable trust schemas and utilize identity nullifiers for access control in diverse on-chain and off-chain applications.^[2]

Galxe Quest

Galxe Quest is a Web3 community-building platform integrated into Optimism, Arbitrum, and Polygon chains. It offers a seamless, no-code solution for projects to engage users through reward-based loyalty programs. The platform enhances user growth strategies with automated solutions that combine on-chain analytics and off-chain interactions. It simplifies user onboarding through interactive Learn-to-Experience-to-Earn campaigns designed to educate newcomers effectively.^[3]

Galxe Quest prioritizes authentic community engagement by employing sybil-resistant credentials to ensure genuine interactions and thwart bots. It also boosts brand visibility by integrating strategically with social media platforms, leveraging Galxe's extensive reach in the digital landscape.^[3]

Moreover, using specific credentials, the platform helps identify and nurture loyal community members, fostering connections beyond traditional community boundaries. Galxe Quest supports sustained user engagement with comprehensive loyalty programs featuring ongoing campaigns and incentives to maintain long-term user participation and satisfaction.^[3]

Smart Balance

Smart Balance is a cross-chain balance and payment tool for supported Galxe product payments and Quest claims, intended to reduce the need for users to separately acquire gas tokens across networks.^[13]

On August 10, 2026, Galxe announced Smart Savings’ transition to Smart Balance. Remaining Smart Savings balances were to be automatically migrated after November 1, 2026; migrated Smart Balance credits cannot be withdrawn.^[16]

Galxe Score

Galxe Score is a reputation system based on users’ Web3 activity, participation, assets, experience, and related signals. Projects can use scores to assess users and set campaign eligibility or access.^[13]^[12]

Galxe Earndrop

Galxe Earndrop is Galxe’s token-distribution and airdrop application. Projects configure token distributions and eligibility conditions, while users discover and participate in campaigns. Galxe presents Earndrop as a separate product alongside Quest.^[12]^[13]

Galxe Compass

Galxe Compass is a comprehensive hub for airdrop campaigns in Web3, designed to cater to new and experienced airdrop hunters. It is a centralized guide and watchlist aggregating many airdrop opportunities across the Web3 ecosystem. Galxe Compass utilizes AI-driven technology to curate a detailed watchlist of airdrops, providing valuable insights and updates weekly. It covers campaigns beyond Galxe's quest platform, including airdrop opportunities recommended by industry experts.^[4]

Galxe Compass simplifies the airdrop process by allowing users to track active campaigns and engage in on-chain tasks directly through the platform. By aggregating these opportunities, Galxe Compass ensures users stay informed and can easily participate in airdrops, bridging the gap between isolated opportunities and the broader Web3 ecosystem.^[4]

Galxe ID

Galxe ID serves as a universal Web3 identity service, functioning as a universal username that consolidates multichain and multi-wallet identities in Web3. It enables users to display their collected credentials from the Web3 ecosystem, showcasing their achievements and history. Developers can integrate the Galxe ID toolkit as a metaverse DID, offering customized features based on users' digital credentials or enhancing user profiles within their products. This integration promises to unlock numerous possibilities and reshape the future of Web3.^[1]

Galxe Passport

Galxe Passport is a secure and private universal identity for Web3 experiences, securely storing users' identity information anonymously. It functions as a universal identity across various applications for compliance purposes. Users receive a unique Galxe Passport Soulbound Token in their wallet, distinguishing them as verified individuals and aiding partners in preventing Sybil attacks.^[5]

Designed with security in mind, Galxe Passport encrypts users' private information with their password, ensuring that only users can access these data unless explicitly authorized. To obtain a Soulbound Token, users undergo a verification process on Galxe, enabling them to mint and claim the Galxe Passport Token.^[5]

On April 30th, 2024, Galaxy introduced Passport V2, which introduced three new user features: Private Data Vault, facial re-verification, and timestamped verification.^[5]

Private Data Vault offers a secure system to manage users' encrypted identity commitments and signed credentials. This vault ensures users can conveniently access their Passport across different protocols and platforms, combining simplicity with robust security and privacy. Galxe Passport V2 stores new users' encrypted data in the Private Data Vault, compatible with the Galxe Identity Protocol. Utilizing Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) technology, this enhancement guarantees that users' data remains completely private while remaining accessible as needed. This development underscores Galxe Passport's ongoing commitment to maintaining a balance between privacy and user-friendly accessibility.^[5]
In Galxe Passport V2, projects utilizing the platform for verification can now integrate periodic facial re-authentication into their Know-Your-Customer (KYC) processes. This enhanced security feature is designed to eliminate false KYC verifications, particularly targeting users who may have obtained their Soulbound Token (SBT) on Galxe Passport using fraudulent documents. For example, platforms that require KYC for regulatory compliance can implement periodic facial verifications, such as every six months, to ensure that biometric data matches the original verification. This approach emphasizes consistency and accuracy, positioning Galxe Passport V2 as a tool for authenticity that safeguards projects and protocols against Sybil attacks. Moreover, reducing instances of false KYCs enhances compliance with protocols that mandate rigorous verification standards.^[5]
In Galxe Passport V2, a new feature has been introduced where users' successful selfie verifications are timestamped. This enhancement aims to strengthen the verification process by providing platforms with a multi-dimensional credential to assess the authenticity of their users more effectively. By incorporating timestamped selfie verifications, Galxe Passport V2 enhances the integrity of identity verification, helping to minimize falsified verifications and ensure consistency across platforms.^[5]

Passport V3

On May 6, 2025, Galxe announced Passport V3, integrating Sumsub for KYC onboarding. Galxe described reusable verification across platforms, encrypted identity data, privacy-preserving proofs, and sybil-resistance for participating projects as features of the system. The announcement named Transak and Banxa as early integration partners.^[17]

Alva

Alva is an AI tool designed to help users stay informed and make investment decisions in the Web3 space. It continuously gathers real-time crypto knowledge from various sources, acting as a comprehensive knowledge hub. Alva is available as an extension on Twitter. When users highlight text, it provides instant insights and analyses. It collects data from industry analytics, project information, market trends, and community discussions, simplifying access to current Web3 information.^[6] Galxe also presents Alva as an AI-powered educational experience with guided Web3 learning and gamified interactive modules.^[13]

Gravity

Gravity is a Layer 1 omnichain smart contract platform designed to streamline and enhance cross-chain interactions within Web3. It aims to provide a more efficient, scalable, and secure mechanism for managing complex transactions with minimal friction. Built for mass adoption, Gravity features full-chain abstraction and integrates advanced technologies such as Zero-Knowledge Proofs, staking-powered architecture, and novel consensus mechanisms. This architecture ensures high performance, robust security, and cost-efficient transactions, catering to the needs of diverse applications in the Web3 ecosystem.^[7]^[8]

Gravity's cross-chain settlement protocol allows applications to utilize it as a universal settlement layer across various chains, facilitating seamless user interactions without exposing them to the technical complexities of blockchain. This capability is particularly beneficial for high-throughput applications, enabling them to leverage Gravity's fast-finality chain for secure and auditable transactions. Applications like Smart Savings showcase Gravity's role in shifting towards transparent, auditable transaction processing, ensuring reliability and adherence to the code-is-law principle across decentralized applications.^[7]^[8]

Gravity L1 Mainnet

Gravity L1 is a high-performance Layer 1 developed by Galxe. Its execution environment uses Grevm, which supports parallel EVM execution, alongside pipelined AptosBFT consensus. Galxe describes Gravity L1 as providing sub-second finality and throughput above one gigagas per second; its transition announcement also reports 12,000+ transactions per second and describes validator-attested native oracle functionality. The network's proof-of-stake security architecture uses restaking.^[14]

Gravity Alpha Mainnet was the earlier live production environment that informed the subsequent Gravity L1. Galxe stated that Gravity L1 Mainnet was operational by July 2026; Gravity Alpha Mainnet is now retired.^[14]

Gravity (G)

Formerly called GAL, Gravity (G) is the native token used within the Gravity and Galxe ecosystems, serving multiple essential functions. Initially functioning as a gas token for transactions, G was also described as transitioning to securing the network through staking. This versatile utility token is crucial in governance processes, incentivizing ecosystem growth, and facilitating payments across both platforms.^[8]^[9]

G's planned utilities included staking to engage in governance, contribute to network security, and support the long-term sustainability of the Gravity and Galxe ecosystems. Stakers of G were also described as having access to exclusive rewards from applications developed by Galxe. Governance within the G ecosystem is overseen by the G DAO, where holders of G tokens govern transparently, securely, and decentralizedly.^[8]^[9]

Functioning as the native gas token on Gravity Chain, G is essential for executing and settling all on-chain transactions. In the Galxe ecosystem, G is the utility token used to pay fees associated with various applications such as Galxe Quest, Galxe Passport, Galxe Score, Alva, and more.^[8]^[9]

Galxe's 2026 transition notice states that its G Staking page went offline on October 26, 2026, as part of the transition from Gravity Alpha to Gravity L1. This closure of Galxe's staking portal is distinct from Gravity L1's underlying proof-of-stake security architecture.^[15]

GAL Migration

Proposals GP-25 and GP-30 were approved by the Galxe DAO community, marking the migration of the Galxe (GAL) token to Gravity (G). This transition aimed to unify and streamline the user experience across both ecosystems by seamlessly integrating the token across the Gravity Layer 1 and the Galxe platform while simplifying the ticker for improved recognition. On July 9th, 2024, GAL was migrated to G, which now serves as the universal token, providing utility in governance, transactions, and incentives throughout the ecosystem.^[8]^[9]

Tokenomics

G has a total supply of 12,000,000,000 tokens and has the following distribution:^[10]

Community: 20%
Team: 15%
Marketing: 15%
Growth Backer R1: 10.63%
Growth Backer R2: 10.14%
Foundation: 10%
Advisors & Partners: 6.23%
Coinlist Public Sale: 5%
Ecosystem: 4.5%
Early Adopters Rewards: 2%
Launchpool: 1.5%

Galxe DAO

Galxe DAO is governed by G holders, who have authority over protocol fee collection and management of the Galxe Community Treasury. Galxe's current solutions overview says G-token governance voting takes place through Snapshot.^[13] The previously documented proposal framework required over 50% passing votes and support from wallet addresses holding at least 2,000,000 GAL, with delegation allowed, for endorsement. Under that framework, Galxe's operational team implemented passed proposals, which were validated by a multi-sig if required. This describes the prior framework; G is the current governance token following the GAL-to-G migration.^[11]^[8]

Partnerships

Overview

History

Galxe Announces Service Wind-Down and Consolidation Under Gravity

As part of the transition, Galxe immediately disabled the creation of new campaigns, Galxe+ and Galxe Score subscriptions, and Galxe Passport minting.