Six D1 college athletics teams are using Avalanche technology to improve their fan experience and loyalty. Michigan, Nevada, Baylor, and Memphis recently joined Penn State and LSU in choosing Uptop to strengthen the connection between their athletic programs and fans. Uptop’s platform, powered by Avalanche, gives better fan data, more efficient rewards, stronger sponsorship opportunities and a foundation for payments going forward. Avalanche is home for sports rewards, and the roster is growing.

As we approach the release of tradable RWAs on @avax, The Arena is partnering up with @PharaohExchange to release our RWA launchpad! We expect to have this live as soon as tokenized stocks and commodities are officially live on the chain. Here’s what to expect: - Pair tokens with any official RWA offered on Avalanche (no bridging RWAs from other chains) - All graduated tokens will migrate to Pharaoh DEX for continued trading - Improved bonding curve so tokens start with a higher marketcap, leading to better distribution and thicker liquidity - Tax your token from 1-5% with rewards auto distributed to holders in the base token - Creator fees and LP fees still included for projects to build treasuries and tokens to trade healthier at higher marketcaps - Pair tokens with other ERC-20 tokens as well, including $ARENA and AVAX ecosystem memecoins - New UI/UX improvements on The Arena Launchpad - Arena Champions will be airdropped all bonded tokens as part of the Moats program We have some projects lining up to launch, but please remember that no pairing is official until you see an announcement from this account.

I'm a hiring a Senior Software Engineer for @AvaLabs Why you should be interested: → own development on the largest staking product in the @avax ecosystem (100k+ users) → full stack engineering opportunity where you'll be building end-to-end → big portion of the roadmap is centered around engineering → remote (preference for US/EU timezones) w/ competitive compensation package (base + tokens & equity) Application link below ↓

Banks and asset managers are asking a fair question: what can blockchain actually do for their customers? At this point, our industry should have a clear answer. I wrote for @AmerBanker about the shakeout underway as the industry matures

Avalanche's co-founder helped build a proof-of-work currency six years before Bitcoin... Emin Gün Sirer (@el33th4xor) co-designed Karma at Cornell in 2003 with two of his students. His bios call it the first currency to mint coins through proof-of-work, though Wei Dai's 1998 b-money proposal sketched the idea earlier. Karma aimed to stop freeloading on file-sharing networks by tracking what each user gave and took, long before Bitcoin introduced proof-of-work money. In 2013, he and Ittay Eyal found a flaw in Bitcoin's mining rules. A group of miners could secretly hold back the blocks they found, then release them at the right moment to wipe out rivals' work. Even a minority of miners could earn more than they should. The attack is now known as "selfish mining". He later co-founded @AvaLabs, the company behind Avalanche (@avax), and still runs it as CEO.

Team1 Thailand is here 🇹🇭 SaWaDiKa Two crowds are building in Thailand, and they rarely meet: the founders and nomads passing through Bangkok, Phuket, and Chiang Mai, and the local devs and students ready to ship. We're building the community hub for Avalanche and to bring everybody together. Before launching as an official chapter, we were already on the ground building the foundation: ⬩ Flagship events nationwide, now reaching beyond Bangkok into Chiang Mai ⬩ Workshops and hackathons with 4 university clubs: Thammasat, Chulalongkorn, Kasetsart, and MUIC ⬩ Events co-hosted with Pudgy Penguins, Bitkub, Binance TH, ST Thailand, and 4SEAS ⬩ Builders onboarded in Thai and English, from first wallet to first deployment Our mission is to make Thailand one of Avalanche's biggest builder hubs in Asia and to back adoption where it's already happening: payments, stablecoins, and institutional infrastructure. That means real programs and real outcomes. 🔺 Workshops and hackathons on campus 🔺 Founder support and direct access to Team1 programs 🔺 Project funding with access to Mini Grants, and Accelerator Grants. 🔺 Marketing and distribution support, even for teams that aren't funded 🔺 Community meetups & builder nights Thailand's institutions are coming on-chain, and we're building the community to match. If you're a founder, developer, student, or just passing through Bangkok, we're here, and we'd love to connect. Get involved with Team1 Thailand 👇

New York, dünyanın finans merkezi. Finansın inşa edildiği şehir. Avalanche’ın New York’ta kurulması tesadüf değil.🔺 NYSE’den Avalanche’a, Wall Street’ten onchain’e.

Great to see Helicon live! Looking forward to seeing the impact of these six ACPs on mainnet. The real story is what the data shows over the coming weeks. That's what we'll be watching 🔺

Curious what's driving Avalanche right now? Tune in tomorrow at 12:30pm ET to hear @JohnNahas84 @RasterlyRock, and @CamKhosravi break it down.

Missing Summit already? Us too. Here’s what was announced, launched, unveiled, or teased last week alone: - $807B New York Life Investment Management is bringing its first tokenized fund to Avalanche through @centrifuge, putting its U.S. High Yield Corporate Bond Strategy onchain. - @aave is launching a specialized RWA lending market on Avalanche, giving institutions a way to borrow against tokenized financial assets. - @BuildOnIris raised $40M+ to expand ALVA, bringing payments, identity, rewards and settlement onchain for mobile users across emerging markets. - $500B asset manager Janus Henderson became an Avalanche validator and is providing anchor capital to @TranchedFi, an onchain credit platform with $300M in AUM. - @tare_io raised $13.25M to build a regulated financial institution entirely onchain, connecting loan originators directly with institutional capital. - @COTInetwork launched Privacy-on-Demand and its Privacy Portal on Avalanche, bringing private computation and transactions to C-Chain applications. - @Paxos integrated Avalanche across infrastructure serving 650+ institutions and supporting 470M+ end users globally. - @NYSE plans to bring 24/7 trading onchain with its in-development ATS platform. - Michael Blaugrund of Intercontinental Exchange / NYSE said: “As we’ve evaluated different platforms, Avalanche checks a lot of those boxes for us, so we’re very engaged with the team.” - @tassatgroup published new results from @Lynq_Network’s move to an Avalanche L1: 65% faster processing and 50% lower infrastructure costs for its institutional settlement network. - @uptop_xyz and @UMichAthletics are bringing Michigan fan rewards onchain, creating one identity across sports that rewards fans for how they show up. - @raincards is integrating KRW1 from @BDACSKorea into its global payments infrastructure, opening a path to 175M+ Visa merchant locations. - Hyundai Card outlined its next steps after its Avalanche payments PoC, with a focus on proving the model can operate at scale. - @PharaohExchange is planning to bring permissionless, 24/7 trading of tokenized U.S. stocks to Avalanche DeFi. - @TheGrottoL1 announced their app’s expansion to Windows, Mac, and Linux, as well as launching their in-house studio. - @Bitwise co-founder Hunter Horsley said that if he were building a chain: “hell yeah” it would be on Avalanche. - @si_tickets_ teased that multiple Premier League stadiums will go fully onchain in 2027. - @FIFACollect crossed 1 MILLION users, with CEO Francesco Abbate pointing to Avalanche technology as the natural fit for its requirements. - @bloxtel unveiled the AP 201, bringing private 5G infrastructure, subscriber identity and authentication onchain with Avalanche. - @insomniacevents is partnering with Avalanche and @raincards on a new fan loyalty program for live entertainment. - @kevinolearytv unveiled his $11M 1-of-1 Shohei Ohtani card in public for the first time, said he’d like to one day tokenize it, and later pointed to Avalanche’s multi-chain architecture as one of the reasons it has his attention. And, perhaps most importantly: @luigidemeo, @Melt_Dem and @fintechfrank ate some really hot wings and survived. Barely. Eventful week, and it’s just the start. More to come, stay tuned 🔺

Honored to share the efforts of @AvaLabs @avax to advance blockchain adoption at South Korea’s National Assembly. Our focus has always been clear: support the businesses building on Avalanche and the users who bring the ecosystem to life. Help them turn blockchain’s potential into practical value. That purpose guides the technology we build, the partnerships we form, and the policy conversations we contribute to. Technology built for businesses. Deliver for users. Read more from Digital Asset digitalasset.works/news/arti…

Helicon is an incredibly important upgrade that carves a path forward for the next phase of Avalanche.

Suddenly pretty bullish on @avax Their summit was excellent, but it’s really the announcements they’ve secured recently around it, and the focus those announcements show. Blockchains die from a lack of differentiation. There are too many of them. We only need a few. Yours needs to be about ONE thing, and that thing needs to be defensible. Memecoins are NOT defensible. Meme traders dgaf where they trade. They follow liquidity. Look how rapidly activity can rotate from one ecosystem to another, like what happened with Robinhood vs Solana. Memes are basically impossible for a chain to own. An app can own them, like @fomo or @Pumpfun, but a chain can’t. But massive institutional deals with enterprise companies and nation states? Those are defensible as hell. And sovereign interoperable L1s are literally Avalanche’s original thesis. So seeing them full-circle to focus on that original positioning, and actually execute on it at a very high level, makes the whole thing feel much more coherent to me. Will that make number go up? Absolutely no idea. That’s its own question. But can it make Avalanche money as a business and give them a repeatable, scalable model that lets them own and defend a unique lane in this insane industry? Absolutely. And that’s probably more important to long-term survival than number go up. At least barely.