Just a sampling of tokenized assets available on @avax

Avalanche’s Helicon upgrade is now live on Mainnet and marks another meaningful step in making blockchain infrastructure better suited for financial markets and institutional use. What matters if you’re not a protocol engineer… More performance. Helicon introduces Continuous Execution, which allows for consensus and transaction execution to happen in parallel rather than sequentially. In practical terms this means greater throughput and a more efficient architecture as transaction volumes scale. More institutional-friendly staking. The minimum staking period drops from two weeks to just 48 hours, bringing capital commitments much closer to the liquidity and redemption timelines various institutional allocators operate around. Validators can also automatically renew and compound their stake, reducing operational overhead while maintaining continuous participation. Higher standards for resiliency. Validators will now need to maintain 90% uptime, up from 80%, to earn rewards, creating stronger incentives for a consistently available validator set and supporting faster, more reliable network performance. More sustainable economics. Helicon recalibrates staking rewards to better reward longer-term commitments while reducing expected AVAX issuance over time. It also introduces a dynamic minimum gas price that can adjust to network conditions rather than relying on a fixed floor. Overall, financial-market infrastructure needs to be fast, resilient, capital-efficient and economically sustainable, without sacrificing flexibility. Helicon pushes Avalanche further in that direction. 🔺

Recently, @AmerBanker featured our work with Hyundai and @AxiymFinance, a tangible example of what it means for Avalanche blockchain infrastructure to be built for business. Hyundai's card unit tested moving corporate funds between its U.S. and Mexico subsidiaries via stablecoins. What typically takes 3–4 hours through traditional interbank settlement took just 7 minutes. As the firm looks to integrate stablecoins into its operating model at scale, the opportunity extends beyond speed and into reducing idle liquidity, improving visibility into where cash sits across a global organization, and making working capital more efficient. This is the kind of adoption we’re excited about within the @avax ecosystem--that is, using blockchain to make real-world financial operations faster, more efficient and easier to run at scale. americanbanker.com/payments/…

BREAKING: Institutional investment strategies from $1.3T Wellington and $6B Fasanara are now live on Avalanche @MidasRWA is bringing mWIN and mGLOBAL to Avalanche, with access to institutional fixed income and alternative credit strategies onchain. These are assets that traditionally sit behind institutional infrastructure. On Avalanche, they become programmable, transferable, and usable.

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“Today, the system is taking anywhere from 10 to 16% of the value of a loan through these intermediaries, and if you remove them, we should be able to give that back to people.” At @avax Summit, Kevin Miao (@humancapitol) argues tokenization could cut intermediaries out of lending and return more value directly to borrowers.

The @Lynq_Network lets institutions settle tokenized cash, securities, & collateral against each other in real time, atomically, around the clock… something tradfi still cannot do because cash, securities, collateral live on separate ledgers with T+1/T+2 cycles, cutoffs, & intermediaries. Read up on why they need an @avax L1 so those legally sensitive workflows get deterministic finality, onchain permissioning and audit trails, + a path to move assets across ecosystems w/o giving up institutional controls.

Mesmerized by @ValinorDigital explaining the intersection of private credit and prediction markets 😍

What a whirlwind couple of days at Avalanche Summit. So much of what we’ve been working on behind the scenes came to life this week, and I’m incredibly proud of what this team continues to accomplish. ICYMI, a few highlights from the OnChain Finance world over the past couple of days: • Tether's @usat is coming to the network, with the first @aave RWA Hub set to serve as a key anchor for its launch. Aave Labs’s founder @StaniKulechov has said: “The biggest market that we are planning to build is actually on Avalanche.” Stay tuned for more on this! • @NYSE continues to engage closely with Avalanche as it evaluates infrastructure for its forthcoming tokenized equity ATS. As ICE’s Michael Blaugrund shared at Summit: “Avalanche checks a lot of [the] boxes for us, so we’re very engaged with the team.” • Tare raised $13.25M in seed funding to build its Avalanche-native credit platform connecting asset originators directly with institutional investors through a shared digital ledger, another important step toward bringing credit origination and financing onchain. • @JHIAdvisors continues to deepen its involvement across the ecosystem. The $500B+ asset manager has invested in two Avalanche-based origination and servicing companies, Tare and Tranched, and is working closely with both to help expand access to capital. The firm has also partnered with and invested in @ethena and @centrifuge and is now becoming an Avalanche validator. As Nick Cherney, Head of Innovation at Janus Henderson, put it: “We believe tokenization has the potential to reshape how investments are created, distributed and used across financial markets. […] Becoming a validator on Avalanche allows us to participate directly in the infrastructure supporting this evolution, while working alongside an ecosystem that has been particularly focused on private credit, fund tokenization, asset financing and other institutional use cases that are directly aligned to our strategic vision." • @Paxos has fully integrated Avalanche, bringing the network into infra serving 650+ institutions and supporting 470M+ end users globally. The integration expands institutional access to AVAX and Avalanche-native USDC and creates more ways for FIs and payment providers to build products and move money on the network, including enabling Charles Schwab to offer AVAX exposure and trading to its customers. • @NewYorkLife brought its first tokenized fund to Avalanche. Through Centrifuge, HYB brings NYLIM’s US High Yield Corporate Bond Strategy onchain, giving eligible investors access to an actively managed portfolio of US HY credit. A big thank you to all of our current and prospective partners who joined us on stage, in meetings and throughout the week to share how they're building the future of finance. And an especially huge thank you to my amazing OnChain Finance team @cryptoreine @MattSchmenk @Leandro84D @joeycannoli9 and Mike Manning, as well as our incredible marketing and comms partners who helped bring it all to life and tell the story. Still a lot to build. But a pretty exciting week for Avalanche OnChain Finance. ❤️🔺

Morgan Krupetsky (@MorganKrupetsky) of @avax sharpens the lazy "institutions are here" narrative, and resizes the prize: "A lot of people say the institutions are here. But so far, it's mostly been institutions selling their existing products to what they see as a net-new distribution channel, crypto natives." "What I'm really excited for is institutions deploying capital at risk themselves into onchain opportunities, because the onchain version is better." "For as many billions as there are onchain today, the institutional capital that's off-chain dwarfs it by orders of magnitude. That's the money we've been going after."

Michael Blaugrund of NYSE touches on why Avalanche technology could be the solution to 24/7 trading via their new ATS

Everyone's tokenizing treasuries and equities, but @AVAX VP of BD @MorganKrupetsky is looking somewhere messier. Private credit, she says, is a space hardly anyone is focused on. The goal is to bring the whole process, origination, securitization and distribution, onchain. Because private credit is so opaque and unstandardized today, she argues, it's exactly where blockchain can create the most efficiency.

BREAKING: NYSE plans to bring 24/7 trading on chain with their in-development ATS platform “As we’ve evaluated different platforms, Avalanche checks a lot of those boxes for us, so we’re very engaged with the team” - Michael Blaugrund of Intercontinental Exchange/NYSE

We have passed on most tokenization companies we've seen, and usually for the same reason: they focus on the thin layer of tokenization itself versus the processes and ecosystem around it. @tare_io is the exception, and today we're proud to share our investment in it. The company announced $13.25 million in seed financing led by Blockchain Capital, with participation from Strobe Ventures, Janus Henderson, Neoclassic Capital, the Avalanche Foundation, and The Venture Dept. The capital funds product development and hiring as Tare opens its platform to third-party lenders and institutional investors. Credit today moves from investors to borrowers through a long chain of intermediaries. An originator underwrites the loan, a servicer collects the payments, a trustee holds the assets, an administrator produces the reporting, and an investor receives a loan tape weeks later that may not reconcile. Tare replaces that cumbersome process with a shared asset ledger and three applications sitting on top of it: a Loan Origination System that writes standardized loan data into the registry at the moment of underwriting, a Loan Management System that handles servicing, waterfalls, and securitization, and a Digital Investor Hub where institutional buyers analyze, purchase, monitor, and sell those assets.  I first met the CEO and Co-Founder, @humancapitol, while doing diligence on Uniform Labs, a company in which we subsequently invested. When he later started Tare, he called us early. I’ve learned that many of the best relationships can come from diligence calls such as this. Diligence calls put you in rooms with people you have no other reason to be talking to, and some of those people turn into the best investments you make. The first venture investment I ever made also came out of a diligence call: I was speaking with Edward Woodford to get his read on a different company, and the conversation led to Nyca’s investment in his company, ZeroHash, in 2021.  We're proud to back @humancapitol, @lucasvo, and @keerthimoudgal as they build the shared, intelligent ledger that connects loan originators and credit investors directly. Here's why we invested in Tare: theventuredept.vc/blog/why-w… @Blattmachr @deptvc

We’re excited to invest in Tare @tarecredit’s $13.25M seed round. Tare is building an end-to-end private credit platform onchain, connecting loan originators and investors through shared, auditable infrastructure to reduce friction and costs. Press Release: nitter.net/tarecredit/status/2100…

🚨 LATEST: Hyundai is preparing to scale its stablecoin payment model on Avalanche after a successful proof of concept earlier this year.

BREAKING: Paxos integrates Avalanche, with infrastructure serving 650+ institutions and supporting 470M+ end users worldwide Avalanche is now live on @Paxos across their regulated financial infrastructure platform, expanding institutional access to AVAX and Avalanche-native USDC. For financial institutions and payment providers, that means more ways to build products and move money on Avalanche. All backed by a regulated infrastructure provider operating across 150+ countries with more than $18B in assets under custody. Trusted infrastructure, built on Avalanche.

A new kind of enterprise is building on Agora: telecom operators. Iris just launched with a $43M commitment from Balesia Group, and VIVA, a licensed mobile operator with 25+ years in Bolivia and a growing footprint in Mexico, is the first carrier live on the network. 2M+ users. This isn't a single-use integration either. VIVA is using Agora-powered infrastructure for stablecoin issuance and wallet operations for the telecom teams. "The broader bet is that carriers can capture more of the economics generated by infrastructure they have spent decades building. Telecom operators bring something financial apps often spend heavily trying to build: customers, verified identities and distribution. That can be particularly powerful in emerging markets." Enterprises are now coming to Agora to build their platforms, we are a one stop shop for enterprise stablecoin adoption. Many enterprises have not interacted with stablecoins before and Agora provides a regulated, seamless experience for minting/redeeming and sending/receiving funds in our platform. Iris' debut is a signal of where the market is growing: beyond fintechs and crypto-native companies, but operators with real infrastructure, real customers, and real balance sheets looking for new revenue models. You'll see Jules on stage with the Viva and Rakuten team today. A preview of the next partner? A lot more coming here, this is just Day 0!!

BREAKING: $807B New York Life Investment Management is bringing its first tokenized fund to Avalanche Through Centrifuge, HYB brings NYLIM’s U.S. High Yield Corporate Bond Strategy onchain, giving eligible investors access to institutional-grade credit directly on Avalanche. The fund opens up an entirely new corner of traditional credit markets on Avalanche, with an actively managed portfolio of high-yield U.S. corporate bonds now accessible onchain.