BREAKING NEWS FROM EUROPE: @avax just became infrastructure for the European Central Bank's new financial system. 🚨
Yesterday the ECB officially launched Pontes, the Eurosystem's DLT bridge that settles tokenized securities in real central bank money, not stablecoins. Avalanche is one of the chains powering it. 🧵
Source: https://t.co/dvdfhlwQ5v
2/ Cashlink, Germany's leading regulated tokenization registrar (€1B+ in transaction volume, 300+ live issuances, clients incl. KfW, Metzler, Helaba) and one of only FOUR DLT operators certified for Pontes' initial launch, has now integrated Avalanche infrastructure directly into its platform.
Source: https://t.co/TO3Ftk6rHZ
3/ Why Avalanche, specifically? It lets Cashlink spin up its own sovereign L1, fully customized for EU compliance, KYC, and access control, while still natively interoperating with every other Avalanche L1 worldwide via Warp Messaging. A closed ledger like XRPL can't offer that.
4/ And the pattern isn't random. Korea and Japan are already pushing institutional securities tokenization on Avalanche. NYSE has been testing it too. Cashlink adding Avalanche means Europe's central bank money rails now sit on the same base architecture as Asia's and potentially Wall Street's.
5/ That's the strategic unlock for Cashlink: full sovereignty over its own chain today, plus a frictionless path to plug into a growing global institutional network tomorrow, instead of locking Europe's tokenized securities into an isolated system.
6/ Europe's central bank money, connected to Avalanche infrastructure, connected to Asia's institutional rails, connected to potentially the largest exchange in the world. Avalanche isn't just another L1, it's becoming the interoperability layer for global institutional tokenization. 🔺
@AvaxTeam1@AvaLabs@ecb@Lagarde@avax@avax_one@avat_co avalanche-2:native
HUGE: COTI brings private AVAX and USDC transfers to Avalanche
The integration lets users and institutions move assets onchain while keeping transaction details private, addressing a key privacy hurdle for traditional finance adoption.
Another financial giant just chose Avalanche.
The more than $800B US financial giant, New York Life Investment, has chosen @Avax to launch its first tokenised fund.
More specifically, the firm's High Yield Corporate Bond Strategy will be brought onto the OG L1 through @centrifuge.
🚨HUGE: The NYSE is working to bring $40 TRILLION in US stocks and ETFs ONCHAIN.
The exchange has spent a year testing Avalanche and is building a tokenized securities platform with onchain settlement and stablecoin-based funding.
Tokenized shareholders will keep full dividend and voting rights with instant settlement and fractional shares.
"Avalanche checks a lot of those boxes for us," ICE's Head of Strategic Initiatives said, per The Block.
🔺 AVAX ECOSYSTEM WEEKLY RECAP 🔺
While many are focused on price, Avalanche continues to deliver where it matters most: adoption, liquidity, builders, and real-world utility. 🚀
📊 Avalanche By The Numbers
💰 TVL: ~$2.7B secured across the ecosystem
💵 Stablecoin Market Cap: ~$1.43B
🌐 Bridged TVL: ~$2.47B
📈 DEX Volume (7D): ~$567M
⚡ Transactions (24H): ~2.34M
👥 Active Addresses (24H): ~574K
🆕 New Addresses (24H): ~28K
🏢 RWA Market Cap: ~$504M
These numbers highlight a network that continues attracting users, capital, and builders despite broader market uncertainty. (DeFi Llama)
🔥 Biggest Avalanche Narratives This Week
✅ Real-world asset adoption continues gaining momentum, with Avalanche remaining one of the leading blockchain ecosystems for institutional tokenization and on-chain finance. Recent RWA activity on Avalanche now exceeds $500M in active market value. (https://t.co/VLA0Q8DKd9)
✅ Avalanche's custom L1 ecosystem continues expanding, powered by the Avalanche9000 architecture and growing demand for sovereign blockchain infrastructure. More projects are choosing Avalanche for dedicated chains optimized for gaming, finance, and enterprise applications. (CoinStats)
✅ Network activity remains strong, with hundreds of thousands of active users and millions of transactions flowing through the ecosystem daily. (DeFi Llama)
✅ Institutional adoption continues to accelerate, with tokenized financial products, credit markets, and enterprise blockchain deployments increasingly choosing Avalanche infrastructure. (KuCoin)
⚡ Why It Matters
The strongest ecosystems aren't measured by price action alone.
They're measured by:
• Users
• Liquidity
• Transactions
• Builders
• Institutional adoption
Avalanche continues checking every box.
As the ecosystem grows across DeFi, RWAs, gaming, and custom L1s, the foundation being built today could become one of the most important growth stories in crypto.
The market may fluctuate.
The builders keep building.
Bullish on Avalanche. 🔺🚀
#AVAX #Avalanche #Crypto #DeFi #RWA #Web3 #Blockchain #CryptoCommunity
Lately, I've seen many people getting discouraged by the #AVAX price.
At this point, I don't even want to look at the chart anymore. I've been in this market for almost 5 years, trying to hold my avalanche-2:native without selling. On top of that, I live in Turkey and have had to deal with extremely high inflation during this entire journey.
Despite my confidence being tested many times, one thing keeps me going: the institutions still holding Avalanche.
Avalanche ETFs and ETPs currently hold around $71M in AUM, and more importantly, there hasn't been a major wave of outflows from these products.
Current breakdown :
🔺Bitwise Avalanche ETF — $22.1M
🔺VanEck Avalanche ETF — $15.3M
🔺21Shares Avalanche Staking ETP — $11.7M
🔺VanEck Avalanche ETN — $8.77M
🔺Valour Avalanche ETP (SEK) — $5.95M
🔺Grayscale Avalanche Trust — $5.58M
🔺Virtune Avalanche ETP — $1.77M
🔺2x Avalanche ETF — $770K
🔺Bitwise Avalanche Staking ETP — $121K
🔺Valour Avalanche ETP (EUR) — $87K
Despite the price action, there has been no significant institutional exit from #Avalanche investment products.
And unlike many assets, #AVAX has a capped supply. It's a scarce asset, much like Bitcoin.
When market conditions improve, we'll all get to see how the combination of limited supply and institutional demand is ultimately priced in.
There is a lot of noise in the short term.
In the long term, we'll learn the answer by living through it. 🔺
#Avalanche #Web3
Avalanche Enters Stablecoin Big Leagues
Avalanche $AVAX has become the tenth largest stablecoin network by supply.
The network’s stablecoin supply jumped 16.35% over the past week to reach $1.66 billion.
BlackRock’s BUIDL fund is now among the largest tokenized assets operating on Avalanche.
Source: MSB Intel
BREAKING: $AVAX staking is now available on Kraken.
Eligible @krakenfx clients can now earn rewards on AVAX through multiple staking and earning options, without managing validator infrastructure themselves.
Built for access. Built for adoption. 🔺
Institutions didn’t choose Avalanche by accident.
They choose what scales, settles fast, and is customizable.
That’s why more serious capital keeps anchoring itself to AVAX.
That’s exactly why Eclipse is building here.
You don’t bet the future on inferior infrastructure 🔺
The firm Securitize gained EU approval to operate as tokenized trading and settlement system on #Avalanche, becoming the first regulated digital securities operator in both US and EU.
$AVAX will be the winner due to its subnet infrastructure and increasing AI portfolio management implementation.