The Team1 India Networking Gala Mumbai was a wonderful evening. It was great hosting everyone, sharing conversations, and experiencing such positive energy in the room.
At Team1 India, we’ll continue creating opportunities for builders and community members to connect, exchange ideas, and showcase what they’re building.
If you were there, you know the vibe. For everyone else, here’s a glimpse of the evening.
The Aftermovie is here! 🎬🔺
Introducing the six research teams selected through our first Call for Research Proposals 🔺
The teams will take on some of the most important open questions in blockchain economics.
Accelerating research already underway through our economic research agenda.
Japan’s payment infrastructure is moving onchain, and Avalanche is becoming part of the network. 🔺
TIS, the company behind nearly half of Japan’s credit card processing, has launched its Multi-Token Platform on Avalanche.
Processing over ¥300 trillion in payments annually, TIS is bringing stablecoins, security tokens, and tokenized deposits to banks, payment providers, and enterprises.
The goal is to make financial infrastructure more efficient without rebuilding the systems institutions already rely on.
From everyday payments to programmable finance, the shift is underway.
The next generation of payments is being built onchain 🔺
A better onchain experience. Reliable performance. Built to support the requirements of regulated markets.
@mblaugrund of @ICE_Markets, owner of @NYSE, explains why it “checks a lot of boxes”.
Built for Business 🔺
The world’s financial markets are evolving, and Avalanche is taking the front row.
@NYSE President Lynn Martin shares her perspective on the next generation of market infrastructure, as Avalanche technology prepares to support core clearing infrastructure for the upcoming NYSE-affiliated securities platform.
Avalanche 🔺
Another great piece of news for the entire Avalanche community.
$13T @CharlesSchwab adds AVAX to Schwab Crypto
Schwab Crypto clients can now trade AVAX, marking the platform’s first crypto expansion beyond Bitcoin & Ethereum.
Learn more below👇
BREAKING: $13T @CharlesSchwab adds AVAX to Schwab Crypto
Schwab Crypto clients can now trade AVAX, marking the platform’s first crypto expansion beyond Bitcoin & Ethereum.
Why is Wall Street increasingly choosing Avalanche?
A better onchain experience. Reliable performance. Built to support the requirements of regulated markets.
@mblaugrund of @ICE_Markets, owner of @NYSE, explains why it “checks a lot of boxes”.
Why Avalanche for NYSE?
It’s important to note that this was not a quick, monetarily-driven decision made without due diligence, as I’ve seen a few posts speculating that. After more than a year of evaluating and testing multiple blockchain networks, NYSE arrived at Avalanche for a multitude of reasons.
For those who have followed Avalanche closely, this shouldn’t come as much of a surprise. For everyone else, it’s worth understanding the fundamental difference between building for speculative crypto markets and building the infrastructure that underpins global capital markets.
For regulated financial institutions, high TPS and low transaction fees are the baseline. Most modern blockchains can offer some version of both, with the much harder problem being architectural.
Monolithic chains share consensus, execution, and blockspace. Conventional EVM L2s introduce dependencies on external settlement layers, sequencing, and data availability. Both models come with constraints that become particularly consequential when institutions need direct control over their infrastructure, especially when it comes to regulatory compliance.
Avalanche was designed around a different premise.
Avalanche L1s operate with independent consensus, dedicated validator sets, customizable virtual machines, configurable fee markets, and protocol-level permissioning. Institutions can define who validates, who participates, how transactions are processed, and how their networks are governed, with the flexibility to implement regulatory requirements directly into the infrastructure.
They can do so without inheriting the congestion or settlement dependencies of another chain, while retaining the ability to interoperate with other networks and access the broader Avalanche ecosystem’s assets and liquidity.
This combination of sovereignty, customization, performance, and interoperability is what makes Avalanche uniquely suited for true capital markets. It’s one thing to offer institutions a place to deploy applications, anyone can do that. It’s another thing to give them the ability to operate the underlying infrastructure on their own terms.
We’ve spent years building around the conviction that the world’s largest financial institutions would eventually need purpose-built blockchains of their own, rather than forcing entirely different businesses and regulatory environments onto a single shared network.
NYSE’s decision is a powerful validation of that thesis.
And I believe we’re only beginning to appreciate just how important these architectural decisions will be as global financial markets continue to move onchain.
What does it take to bring traditional financial markets onchain?
Ava Labs President & COO Charley Cooper hit the floor at the @NYSE to discuss the technology, infrastructure, and institutional requirements shaping the future of capital markets.
The Team1 India Networking Gala Mumbai was a wonderful evening. It was great hosting everyone, sharing conversations, and experiencing such positive energy in the room.
At Team1 India, we’ll continue creating opportunities for builders and community members to connect, exchange ideas, and showcase what they’re building.
If you were there, you know the vibe. For everyone else, here’s a glimpse of the evening.
The Aftermovie is here! 🎬🔺
The New York Stock Exchange is building on Avalanche 🔺
Their new tokenized stocks platform is designed to support 24/7 trading, clearing and settlement. Exclusively on Avalanche.
WSJ exclusive below 👇
The next generation of financial infrastructure needs a blockchain built to support its scale, performance, and institutional requirements.
That's where Avalanche comes in.
Built for Business. Ready for what's next.
A major milestone for Avalanche as the New York Stock Exchange looks to blockchain technology for the next generation of financial infrastructure.
Ava Labs President & COO @CharleyCooper01 joins the NYSE to discuss how @avax technology will be the core infrastructure behind 24/7 trading, clearing and settlement of tokenized securities.
The implications go far beyond crypto.
Team1 India Weekly Recap 🔺
Here’s what happened across the Avalanche ecosystem last week.
🔺 Mumbai came together for the Team1 Networking Gala. Builders, founders, and community members connected over meaningful conversations and shared ideas. Team1 continued its commitment to supporting the community and helping builders grow on Avalanche.
🔺 RWAs moved beyond tokenization. https://t.co/lc8CCQSRyg brought records linked to $2B+ in stored grain across 12,000+ warehouses in India to Avalanche. Farmers gained a way to use stored harvests as collateral for credit without selling their crops. Real-world assets are moving from ownership to financial utility.
🔺 Community banking took another step onchain. FIS and Intain launched the Digital Liquidity Gateway on Avalanche, bringing liquidity tools to around 2,000 U.S. community and regional banks. Banks gained new ways to sell and securitize loan portfolios, unlock capital, and support lending to local businesses.
🔺 Onchain financial services continued growing. Ethena Pay reported a 97% increase in card spending in October, with transactions more than doubling month over month. Its Earn+ launch also brought eligible users access to Aave V4 yield strategies on Avalanche, where deposits surpassed $125M.
More real-world assets put to work.
More financial infrastructure onchain.
More everyday experiences powered by Avalanche 🔺