BREAKING: Kevin O’Leary is headlining Avalanche Summit NYC.
One of the most recognizable investors in the world is coming to Summit.
Now, he’s looking at blockchain through the same lens: Which chain will power the world’s biggest companies and become part of the global economy?
At Summit, hear why Mr. Wonderful has an entire team exploring blockchain technology, why the S&P 500 is moving on-chain, and how Avalanche solves these problems.
Most conferences put every conversation into the same format. A keynote. A panel. Another panel. Repeat.
We wanted Avalanche Summit NYC to feel different.
The people shaping the next era of finance, technology and consumer applications deserve formats that let them do more than deliver rehearsed talking points.
So we built Summit around four different ways to experience what is happening across the industry.
First, the keynotes and fireside conversations.
Bo Hines. Sandy Kaul. Guy Young. Stani Kulechov. Emin Gün Sirer. Charley Cooper. Yat Siu.
And one major headliner we’re not quite ready to reveal yet. Let’s just call him [REDACTED] for now 👀.
These are focused conversations about the decisions shaping markets right now: regulated dollars, tokenization, stablecoins, institutional adoption, policy, risk and the future of onchain finance.
Then, the panels.
Leaders from BlackRock, Apollo, Broadridge, Franklin Templeton, Coinbase, Kraken, Tether, Hyundai Card, Live Nation, Aave Labs, Bitwise, Grayscale and many more will get specific about what they are building, what is already live and what still needs to change.
No vague “institutions are coming” predictions. The institutions are already here. We’re asking what they are actually doing onchain.
Then there’s Behind the Build.
This is where the conversation becomes tangible. Builders will demo real products that have hundreds of thousands (& some millions) of users running on Avalanche, live onstage.
One edition will focus on onchain finance. The other will explore consumer and fan technology. Not a pitch about what might exist someday. A look at products people can use now.
And finally, Hot L1s.
Some of the sharpest minds in the business leave the formal talking points behind, answer spicy questions, eat even spicier food and tell us what they really think about the L1 landscape.
Different formats. Different energy. One clear focus:
The ideas, companies and working products moving blockchain into the global economy.
See you in New York 🔺
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BREAKING: Korea’s largest steelmaker, POSCO, is bringing global trade on-chain, on Avalanche
POSCO International supplies some of the world’s largest companies, including Hyundai, Samsung, Kia, Toyota, GM, Ford, LG and more.
Together with Intain and Olea, POSCO is harnessing the power of blockchain technology to enhance their operations, while exploring digital solutions for trade and treasury management.
I stand by every word of this. Deploying (or announcing) gets treated like the finish line in this industry. For us, it's day one. Distribution, deployments, getting partners in front of the people they need to know and building the technology that actually makes the business move.
The tech speaks for itself, but honestly, our team is our killer app 🔺
Uruguay is bringing cross-border digital ID to LATAM, and it's being built on Avalanche.
AGESIC and @Blerify_ID are piloting a decentralized trust registry across Avalanche and LNet. Countries run their own nodes. Trust metadata sits onchain. Personal data doesn't.
The full story is in @Forbes.
Avalanche (@Avax) is the preferred blockchain for Uruguay's pilot project for cross-border digital IDs in Latin America, built with AGESIC and @Blerify_ID.
The decentralized trust registry runs across Avalanche and LNet;
Participating countries run their own nodes and store only trust metadata onchain, keeping personal data private.
🚨AVALANCHE IS MAKING A SERIOUS RUN AT THE BIG LEAGUES ALONGSIDE $XRP & $XLM!
Tokenised U.S. Treasuries on @avax have surged 76% to $843M, while $AVAX has now climbed above $XRP Ledger and @StellarOrg in stablecoin market cap.
$XRP and $XLM are major payment rails, but $AVAX is rapidly carving out its own lane beside the two in tokenised finance.
I’m excited to step into the role of President at Ava Labs.
I’m grateful to John for his trust and to the entire team for the foundation they have built over the past seven years. I’m also fortunate that John will remain closely involved as Senior Advisor.
We are entering an important moment. Financial markets are becoming 24/7, tokenization is moving into real-world use, and AI will create economic activity that legacy infrastructure was never designed to support. Avalanche was built for this world.
My job is to help Ava Labs turn that opportunity into durable growth. That means operating with greater clarity, focus, and speed while listening closely to our builders, partners, customers, and community.
There is a great deal of work ahead, and I could not ask for a better team to do it with. I’m excited to get started.
Tokenization on @avax is accelerating.
RWA value on the network has grown nearly 8x over the past year, from $242 million to $1.93 billion.
Securitize now accounts for more than half of that total.
Tokenize the World.
Summit is going to be top tier.
From the build out and design to the speaker lineup, attendees, media, and swag, every detail has been intentionally thought through.
You’ll be surrounded by some of the smartest founders, builders, institutions, policymakers, and operators in the world.
But what excites me most is that this isn’t another conference where everyone is talking about crypto to other crypto people.
This is where you’ll see how blockchain is actually being adopted by businesses, governments, and institutions around the world. The conversations are real. The use cases are real. The people building the future are all in one place.
If you want to understand where this industry is actually headed, you don’t want to miss Summit.
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The reason cross-border payments are slow isn’t the wire. It’s the pre-funding requirement.
Today, banks have to park billions of dollars in dormant accounts around the world so payments can settle when needed. That capital sits idle instead of being put to work.
When settlement is guaranteed in seconds at the protocol level, that requirement largely disappears. Capital can remain productive until the moment a payment actually needs to move.
That’s what the Avalanche Payments Collective is building toward.
BREAKING : Kbank, the banking gateway for Korea's largest crypto exchange Upbit, announced it is building a stablecoin-based remittance market on @avax.
What's even more interesting is the larger crypto ecosystem they are building with #KoreaTelecom and #BCCard, their sister companies in the conglomerate.
An ecosystem at this scale needs infrastructure with a proven track record. And that's why it's @avax, technology built for business.🔺
Why do project launchers always rely on the influencers, rather than the communities that have always trusted long-term projects?
I'm thinking of those who have @avax in stake, or the ants of #colony, or the gladiators of @TheArena.
Guess who won't be chosen for the next presale?
BREAKING: U.S. investors and businesses can now trade U.S. stocks via Dinari on Avalanche
724 tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs from @DinariGlobal, including the entire S&P 500, are now available to U.S. investors on Avalanche C-Chain via the Dinari Trading App.
Our economics research agenda is public as of today.
The central problem we're working on: connecting ecosystem output to AVAX value accrual.
Value created onchain doesn't route itself to the token securing the network. That takes deliberate design. That’s what we are working towards.
Measure → capture → distribute.
AVAX Matters 🔺