It’s Friday. Wall Street will clock off at 4 PM ET. Pharaoh has other plans. Tokenized U.S. stocks. 24/7. Permissionless. On @avax. Weekends are for trading too.

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.

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 🔺

Avalanche Summit NY this year was a banger! So much happened. Here’s what you might have missed 👇 🔺 @NYSE is exploring Avalanche technology as a solution for 24/7 trading via its new ATS platform. 🔺 @kevinolearytv took the stage backing crypto's next cycle, the standardisation race blockchain is heading toward and Avalanche's potential. 🔺 @aave is set to launch a specialized RWA lending market on Avalanche. 🔺 @bloxtel announced it’s bringing private 5G infrastructure onchain with Avalanche. 🔺 @PharaohExchange is planning to bring 24/7 trading of tokenized U.S. stocks to its decentralized exchange, built natively on Avalanche. 🔺 @Hyundai_Global completed its first stablecoin payments on Avalanche. 🔺 @FIFACollect crossed 1 MILLION users on Avalanche. 🔺 Insomniac partnered with Avalanche and Rain to launch a new fan loyalty program. 🔺 Tare raised $12M to build a regulated financial institution entirely onchain, powered by Avalanche. 🔺 Iris raised over $40M to expand ALVA’s onchain financial services on Avalanche. 🔺 @Paxos integrated Avalanche, bringing infrastructure that serves 650+ institutions and supports 470M+ end users worldwide. 🔺 @COTInetworks’ Privacy-on-Demand and Privacy Portal are now live on Avalanche. 🔺 $500B global asset manager Janus Henderson is now a validator on Avalanche. 🔺 @UMich is bringing its fan rewards experience onchain, powered by @uptop_xyz and built on Avalanche. 🔺 Korea’s first won-backed stablecoin is going global with @raincards, powered by Avalanche. 🔺 The UAE is using Avalanche to power its national digital identity infrastructure, serving 12M+ people. Team, community, partners, everyone feeling connected and ready for the next phase of Avalanche. @AvalancheFDN is building on its research agenda of measure, value capture, distribute, with the goal of strengthening the Avalanche ecosystem. More to share from the team as this work develops. The best is yet to come 😎