GN AVAX Fam🔺
Another strong week across @avax.
Infra scaling. Builders shipping. Institutions moving.
Here are the highlights:
🔺 Avalanche $1M Hackathon kicked off
2,000+ applications
400+ builders on kickoff
50+ countries represented
🔺 Build Games acceptance letters rolling in
🔺 @AvaLabs CEO @el33th4xor outlined why Avalanche is built for real businesses
Customizable architecture, regulatory alignment, and institutional-grade control
🔺 Retro9000 C-Chain round announced by @AvalancheFDN
First round launches March 2
Incentives from a $40M pool to drive real onchain activity
🔺 Avalanche average transaction fee ~ $0.00198
Among the lowest across major chains
🔺 C-Chain ~2.5M daily transactions
2.43M daily txns, 756K active addresses
Onchain activity trending up ~ @routescan_io
🔺 @AvaxTeam1 Istanbul 🇹🇷
🔺 Team1 Argentina 🇦🇷
🔺 Team1 Brazil 🇧🇷
Global builder meetups expanding
🔺 $5K @AvaxTeam1 Mini Grant to @WeKeepWinning_
🔺 @coreapp launched Quick Swaps
Faster execution on Core extension
🔺 @BlackholeDEX crossed $20M in cumulative swap fees
All generated on Avalanche
🔺 @TippiklLabs integrated $BANDS for tipping on Avalanche
🔺 @zero________one surpassed 500K transactions on their Avalanche L1
🔺 EVEN signed multi year deal with @UMG
Direct to fan infra powered by Avalanche
🔺 @pangolindex met students at GTU
Next gen builders entering Web3
🔺 CEO @FrancisHachem continues steering @CodeNekt_Eco toward the $4T automotive industry, building VIN-based Digital Twins on Avalanche
🔺 Q4 2025 closed as Avalanche’s strongest quarter to date, according to @nansen_ai
Weeks like this don’t scream.
They compound.
Avalanche keeps building🔺
From day one, @avax thesis has been straightforward: empower teams to launch their own L1 and fully own their ecosystem without compromising on performance.
Custom L1s + Avalanche consensus = sub-second finality at scale.
That value proposition attracted major gaming wins like:
• Nexon bringing @MaplestoryU on-chain
• Gunzilla Games launching @playoffthegrid
But @Parkk___ and the @avax team noticed something important: indie developers need the same support as AAA studios.
User acquisition. Web3 guidance. Incubation.
Expanding the ecosystem to support these builders isn’t a pivot—it’s a response to a real need. That’s the ethos behind @avax's support for builders
"Avalanche is Built for Business" and nowhere is this more tangible than in tokenization.
@el33th4xor laid out the vision: embedded finance solutions on rails that actually work for institutions. Here's what that looks like from the perspective of building our tokenization vertical...
The biggest unlock isn't putting a fund onchain. BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, KKR , etc. have already proven that works. the unlock is what happens next: making those tokenized assets composable, liquid, accessible across existing distribution channels.
That's what embedded finance means for tokenization:
-A fintech in São Paulo can offer institutional-grade yield products to their existing users w/o building custody, compliance, or asset management infrastructure from scratch;
-A wealth platform in Singapore can plug into tokenized credit products with the same ease they integrate a payment API;
-An institutional allocator can plug into lending infrastructure to allocate across tokenized treasuries, credit, and onchain yield within a single vault: customized to any risk profile or compliance requirement.
Shared onchain infrastructure means every new asset issued, each new distribution partner connected, & every new primitive deployed makes the entire ecosystem more valuable.
Everyone can tokenize now. few are focused on the distribution / liquidity rails that make those assets actually matter.
If you're building on Avalanche C-Chain and generating real user activity, Retro9000: C-Chain Round rewards you for the value you're already creating 🔺
Results-based funding. No roadmaps, no promises.
Just proven impact measured through AVAX burned.
Retro9000.
Avalanche continues to prove that high performance doesn’t have to come with high fees. It's consistently one of the most economical options across major blockchains all while delivering fast finality and real scalability. Low fees shouldn’t be a tradeoff. On @avax, they’re the standard 🔺
Quick Swaps are now live on Core Extension. From click to confirmed, quick swaps are built for traders who know what they want and don't want anything slowing them down.
Avalanche Primary Network validator uptime requirement is increasing from 80% to 90% with ACP 267. Falling below the threshold means no rewards for both the validator and its delegators.
Snowpeer has updated the validator status indicators accordingly. Good time to review monitoring, failover, and host stability.
Details: https://t.co/ZW6M1axrA7
Avalanche’s $1m Hackathon kicks off today
Some quick stats:
> 2,000+ applications
> 400+ builders on the kickoff call
> 50+ countries represented
> Applications spanning across RWAs, Games, Loyalty, Ticketing, Consumer, AI, and more
Very excited to see builders build 🛠️
Build games kicks off today.
>2000+ projects accepted
>Extreme diversity of apps
>Powerful founders.
Ton of work went into getting this group together. Everything starts with the founder.
In a few months we will see dozens viral applications on avalanche.
let the games begin🔺
Prediction markets have grown 130x in the last two years to over $44 billion in trading volume. By 2030, they are estimated to produce more than $10 billion in annual revenue.
We think prediction markets should be onchain, and we believe Avalanche is the best positioned blockchain for these platforms 🔺
Check out our research article below to learn more 👇
How Do You Trust Software You’ve Never Met? A Plain-Language Look at ERC-8004
As software agents begin acting on our behalf, trust can’t rely on marketing claims. Here’s how ERC-8004 creates shared identity, reputation, and validation on-chain
Blog by @ChrisFusillo below 👇