Because for most people in crypto, token price is the real product. They’d rather optimize the chart than do the hard, thankless work of creating genuine value. The sad part is that many of them are exceptionally smart, and they’ve succeeded: prices stay propped up, while builders creating real value are left wondering what this industry actually rewards.
one thing i’ve never understood about crypto:
everyone says they want mass adoption, but half the industry spends its time rooting against everyone else.
you don’t see uber users spending all day attacking lyft. you don’t see coke fans praying pepsi fails.
healthy competition is good. competition pushes innovation forward. but constantly tearing down other builders, chains, founders, and projects doesn’t make crypto stronger. it just makes the entire industry look smaller.
the biggest opportunity in front of us isn’t proving why everyone else is wrong. it’s proving why this technology matters in the first place. 🤔
Vibe coding on a remote server, straight from my iPhone.
The choice is ours: let the phone trap us as passive consumers, or take control and make it part of the creative process.
Don’t just scroll. Build.
Today, we’re launching the Avalanche Payments Collective.
Founding participants include Franklin Templeton, VanEck, Anchorage Digital, Paxos, Agora, Ethena, Rain, Axiym, Tassat, and others spanning the payments stack.
The Collective brings together companies spanning stablecoins, settlement, treasury infrastructure, foreign exchange, custody, card issuance, business payments, asset management, and global payouts.
Why?
Because the future of payments requires more than faster transactions.
Moving money globally requires liquidity, settlement, compliance, treasury management, custody, foreign exchange, and local payment networks working together as one. 🔺
28 leading organizations supporting payment flows across 150+ countries, 96 currencies, and ~22 billion payout endpoints are building on Avalanche.
Over the last several years, Avalanche has quietly become home to one of the industry's broadest payments ecosystems.
Now, that ecosystem has a name.
Read more: https://t.co/6AMvwHGIax
https://t.co/fJv8rwnBqj
Founding Members:
AeraTech @Anchorage@AxiymFinance@brale_xyz@coreapp@dakota_xyz@ethena@FTDA_US@grovedotfinance@krakenfx@Lynq_Network@meshpay NHN KCP @nonco_otc OatFi @opentrade_io@Paxos@raincards@RequestFinance@rise_pay SETTL @StraitsX@tassatgroup@vaneck_us@WisdomTreeFunds@withAUSD@wyostable@zerohashx
A lot of people look at @FIFAWorldCup tickets being issued and managed on @avax and ask, “Why does this need a blockchain?”
The answer isn’t because blockchain makes tickets magically better. It’s because blockchain solves problems that traditional systems struggle with.
Today, when tickets move through secondary markets, event organizers often lose visibility into who actually owns the ticket. They lose the ability to directly engage with fans. They lose valuable customer data. And in many cases, they lose participation in the economics of those transactions altogether.
Blockchain changes that.
Tickets become programmable digital assets. Ownership can be tracked. Transfers can be verified. Organizers can maintain a direct relationship with fans throughout the entire lifecycle of the ticket, not just at the initial sale.
For an event as large as the FIFA World Cup, that matters and it’s one of the many reasons you should be bullish on Avalanche.
Technology Built for Sports. ⚽️
A counterintuitive lesson from coding: more constraints in code often lead to more precision. But in vibe coding, more prompts and abstraction layers often mean more drift from the original intent.
“https://t.co/pKXsxetIFK plans to deploy $650 million in private credit on the blockchain over the next four years, targeting U.S.
The long-term goal of the project is a fully programmable treasury in which 100% of senior and equity capital flows natively through the Avalanche blockchain.”
https://t.co/l8f0krntow
Today, Mastercard is announcing plans to expand settlement capabilities to include stablecoin, intraday, holiday, and weekend options, giving partners more choice in how and when transactions are settled. That means we’re:
✅ Enabling greater choice to settle in fiat or regulated stablecoins
✅ Improving liquidity management for time sensitive, cross border flows
We’re supporting settlement with @Circle’s USDC, @Paxos-issued stablecoins including USDG,USDP and @PayPal’s PYUSD, @Ripple’s RLUSD and @SoFi’s SoFiUSD across a range of supported blockchain networks including Arbitrum, @Coinbase’s Base, @CantonNetwork’s Canton, Ethereum, @0xPolygon, @Solana, @Tempo and XRPL. ARQ Finance, CBW Bank, @crossriverbank, @Lead_Bank and @Nuvei will be among the first to support.
Blockchains aren’t dead. Useless ones are.
@JohnNahas84 is seeing capital moving towards the builders creating new rails, new use cases, and real revenue-generating businesses.
That is where Avalanche is focused.
@FIFACollect, @Broadridge, @Lynq_Network, @AxiymFinance, and other serious teams are using Avalanche for things people can actually use: ticketing, payments, settlement, governance, compliance, and dedicated infrastructure.
Real applications, real businesses.
On Avalanche 🔺
Breaking news! Mastercard has been granted a BitLicense by the New York State Department of Financial Services (@NYDFS), advancing our commitment to secure and compliant digital asset innovation. 🗽🎉
Learn more: https://t.co/3aNHu3uwx6
Bridgetower Tokenization Platform for institutional capital markets.
Built with Chainlink (@chainlink), issued on Avalanche (@avax). Powered by CRE, Proof of Reserve, SmartNAV, CCIP.
$11B+ in production, $25B+ pipeline.
Full case study ↓
https://t.co/tdZ3rLynPS
Avalanche will win the private blockchain race.
Here’s why:
Institutions need environments where access is intentional, data is protected, and connectivity happens when and where it’s needed.
Avalanche uniquely is built for that.
Look at who has already chosen Avalanche.👇