CEO of @avat_co, the premier way to get regulated AVAX exposure | Prev. CEO of Susquehanna Crypto
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I’m incredibly excited to announce the launch of my next project: Avalanche Treasury Co. 🧵
Introducing Avalanche Treasury Co: the premiere way to get regulated AVAX exposure.
We’re the institutional growth engine for the @avax ecosystem, with an exclusive relationship with Avalanche itself.
Funding builders. Accelerating technologies. Bringing institutions to AVAX.
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In such a loud and crowded market cycle, this kind of institutional momentum may not be making headlines, but it’s exactly the kind of signal I’ve learned to pay attention to.
While investor attention and capital have been heavily concentrated around AI this year, blockchain adoption across finance, payments, tokenization, and other real-world use cases has kept advancing.
From global institutions like FIFA and J.P. Morgan to governments like South Korea and the UAE, @avax continues to demonstrate meaningful adoption among serious players – and AVAT exists to provide access to that opportunity.
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Institutional adoption isn’t waiting on Congress. The SEC and CFTC are advancing frameworks for digital assets, and demand for infrastructure like @avax that can support the shift toward onchain finance is growing.
Crypto tokens tied to trading and tokenization are surging after US regulators moved to expand digital-asset markets despite the failure of landmark crypto legislation in Congress bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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.@NYSE's announcement is a clear signal: Avalanche is positioned to be one of the L1 winners of institutional adoption.
When an institution of this size and standing treats @avax as a leading blockchain for core market infrastructure, other serious financial players are likely to follow.
NYSE plans to bring 24/7 trading on chain with their in-development ATS platform
“ @avax checks a lot of those boxes for us, so we’re very engaged with the team”
How do you even price this in? there is absolutely no equivalent for this
avalanche-2:native will melt faces!
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Our CEO @gbartsmith on why AI agents entering financial markets will make L1 technical differences matter more than ever.
More from his conversation with @TheBlockCo at this week's @avax Summit.
theblock.co/news/ecosystems/…
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Great conversation with @lifesgt on Around The Coin.
We got into building @avat_co, why I bet on @avax for the next wave of institutional adoption, and where I think blockchain infrastructure is headed over the next 24-36 months.
Tune in: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
🏦 Wall Street is moving onchain, but the biggest shift may be happening before most people even notice it.
In this episode of Around The Coin, Stephen Sargeant (@lifesgt) sits down with Bart Smith (@gbartsmith), CEO of Avalanche Treasury Co. (@avat_co), to talk about why institutions are taking blockchain infrastructure more seriously, what makes Avalanche attractive to businesses, and where the next wave of adoption could come from.
💳 From stablecoins and cross-border payments to tokenized assets, ticketing, and 24/7 financial markets, Bart explains why blockchain could eventually become part of the infrastructure people use every day without even realizing it.
They also get into digital asset treasuries, institutional capital, AI agents using blockchain rails, and why Bart believes crypto adoption may be moving much faster than market prices suggest.
🎙️ The bigger question: what happens when crypto stops feeling like a separate industry and simply becomes part of finance?
See where Bart thinks the next wave of adoption is heading!
🔗aroundthecoin.com/podcast/fr…
#aroundthecoin #podcast #Fintech #Crypto #Stablecoins #Tokenization #onchain
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“The real unlock is when consumers are using blockchain without even realizing it.”
Our CEO @gbartsmith joined @HadickM, General Partner at @DragonflyVC, at the @avax Summit in New York to discuss what the next phase of onchain adoption looks like.
From FIFA and government infrastructure to stablecoins, payments, and neobanks, the conversation highlighted a common thread: real economic activity is increasingly moving onchain, while the underlying technology becomes less visible to the end user.
Avalanche’s customizable infrastructure is helping make that possible – giving businesses the ability to build for their specific needs without making blockchain infrastructure a core competency.
The future of onchain adoption may look a lot less like “using blockchain” and a lot more like simply using better infrastructure.
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Building the bridge between public markets and the onchain economy.
Our CEO @gbartsmith joined @gazza_jenks of @TheBlockCo at @avax Summit NYC to discuss how AVAT offers regulated exposure to Avalanche, the opportunity to participate in the businesses being built across the ecosystem, and the accelerating shift of assets onchain.
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The SEC’s move on tokenized securities is a strong step forward.
I've spent my career at the intersection of financial innovation and market infrastructure, and I haven’t seen an innovation with this much potential to reshape how markets work since the rise of spot ETFs - an instrument once seen as niche that eventually reshaped how retail and institutional investors alike can access markets.
That’s what I see in tokenized securities: a fundamental change to who can gain exposure, and by what mechanism. Read here: cnbc.com/2026/09/17/sec-clea…
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Price action can change quickly. Building and adoption take time.
Great to be on the Risk Takers and Crypto Banter podcast with @alessandrorisk to talk @avat_co, @avax, digital asset treasuries, institutional adoption, and where I think blockchain infrastructure goes from here. Tune in.
The headlines tell one story. Adoption tells another.
AVAT CEO @gbartsmith joined the Risk Takers and Crypto Banter podcast with @alessandrorisk to discuss the disconnect between crypto prices and institutional adoption, the evolution of digital asset treasuries, and where he sees the biggest opportunities for @avax.
Tune in: piped.video/watch?v=XRxnK_m9…
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21 of the world’s largest banks are teaming up to launch a stablecoin aimed at commercial clients, per @WSJ.
This is the second time this summer we’ve seen banks join forces like this – first U.S. banks on a joint tokenized deposit network, and now a stablecoin venture at global scale.
It’s the latest signal that the shift toward blockchain adoption has become impossible for institutions to ignore and that demand for institutional-grade infrastructure like @avax is growing.
Read here: wsj.com/finance/banking/thes…
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On the ground at @SALTConference with @JohnNahas84. Looking forward to the next few days of great conversations with some of the best minds across finance and digital assets.
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Bart Smith retweeted
Avalanche helps some of the biggest businesses in crypto and the world leverage blockchains for better outcomes and deeper customer relationships. I think a blind man can see that at this point
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Good read from @LeeSchneider5x on stablecoins’ path to becoming reliable, institutional-grade money.
The regulatory foundation matters, but so does the underlying blockchain infrastructure. As institutional adoption grows, the infrastructure layer will determine success at scale.
americanbanker.com/opinion/y…
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Looking forward to catching up with familiar faces and meeting new ones. Reach out if you'll be at Out East next week.
Where Wall Street meets the waterfront.
Our CEO, @gbartsmith, will be on the ground at @TheTieIO's Out East Summit, joining leaders from across institutional digital assets to discuss the future of blockchain, institutional adoption, and tokenization.
If you’re attending, reach out - we’d love to connect.
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Not every blockchain project will survive the next market cycle.
Our CEO, @gbartsmith, shares what will separate the winners from the rest in @Forbes.
Read here: forbes.com/sites/digital-ass…
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A big reason institutional adoption is able to move this quickly is that blockchain infrastructure has already been built, stress-tested, and refined over multiple market cycles.
What's changing today isn't the technology itself, but the market's understanding of its role in the future of finance.
forbes.com/sites/mikecahill/…
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Excited to see @avat_co begin trading on @Nasdaq today.
We built AVAT to provide long-term exposure to one of the most important infrastructure shifts underway in global finance.
Proud of the team. Excited for what's ahead.
Today, AVAT began trading on @Nasdaq under the ticker AVAT.
Blockchain is the opportunity. @avax is the infrastructure. AVAT is the strategic exposure.
Read the release here: avat.com/avalanche-treasury-…
Learn more here: avat.com
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.@consensus2026 Miami felt very different from past crypto conferences.
This year's event drew more than 20,000 attendees representing firms with over $4 trillion in assets, but the biggest shift wasn’t just the scale of the event – it was the growing presence of Wall Street and traditional financial institutions actively moving toward digital assets and blockchain infrastructure.
Conversations that once centered on the future are now focused on the present, with broad industry discussions shifting toward regulatory clarity and the infrastructure required to support institutional adoption at scale.
Even the narrative itself is changing. The @WSJ's @Vlajournaliste recently highlighted the shift happening across the industry, describing how the “Lamborghinis” of past crypto cycles are increasingly being replaced by “suits.”
Some people frame this as “Wall Street taking over crypto.”
I see it as blockchain infrastructure maturing into something institutions can actually build on.
That shift is already happening globally. Japan is now testing Japanese government bonds on AVAX infrastructure – another signal that blockchain is moving into real-world financial systems.
More here: wsj.com/finance/currencies/o…
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AVAT will be on the ground at @consensus2026 Miami, May 5-7.
We’re looking forward to connecting with the institutions, builders, and policymakers shaping the future of financial infrastructure – and engaging in conversations around blockchain at scale, institutional integration, and the next phase of global markets.
If you’re attending, come say hi – we’d love to connect.
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