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🔭 Where is Avalanche volume actually going? 🔺
Top C-Chain pools by 24h volume, from Snowtrace:
🥇 WAVAX/USDC on @PharaohExchange , $11.5M
🥈 WAVAX/USDC on @Uniswap , $5.8M
🥉 WAVAX/USDC on @BlackholeDEX , $5.2M
Same pair, three different venues, top three spots. AVAX/USDC liquidity is split across DEXs, which is exactly why reading it needs one datalayer covering all of them.
i took @dorjidan in @AvascanExplorer back in 2022
i met him on facebook and in italian crypto circles, and i knew he could be the perfect fit to run socials and community for the block explorer
i had big plans for avascan and then routescan back then, and i though he could really push our brand to the max
and he did
and after leaving routescan, i still wanted to work with him, so i asked if he was available to organize some meetups for @AvaxTeam1
i’m lucky enough to have a lot of friends who would work with me anywhere, and Danilo is one of them
he understood what i wanted to do for avalanche in italy and i now fully trust him to run events in the south of italy, knowing that he’ll probably be better and more passionate than me
this is how he’s doing, and it’s a must read for the whole industry
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The chain with the best tech deserves the best datalayer🔺
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🌋 $AVAX Ecosystem Update
💰 $2.7B Market Cap
🔁 3.6B+ Total Transactions
🥩 203M AVAX Staked
👥 100M Active Addresses
🧩 Ecosystem Highlights:
🔺 Axiym enables Hyundai's stablecoin payments on Avalanche
🔺 Nonco streamlines institutional stablecoin & FX settlements
🔺 StraitsX and KBank advance cross-border payments across Southeast Asia
🛡️ Securing the @avax network:
Avalanche is protected by a global validator set, including @encapHQ, @AvascanExplorer, @xLabsxyz, @Allnodes, @Kiln_finance, @Regenerator_, @ChorusOne and 579+ more validators, strengthening decentralization and network resilience.
@AxiymFinance | @nonco_otc | @StraitsX
C-Chain held steady at 42,000 blocks/day from 2022 to 2024.
Then Avalanche9000 shipped.
Block production jumped to 53,900/day in 2025, then surged to 79,700/day average in the first 7 months of 2026. Peaks hit 85,000+.
That's 50% growth in 18 months. What triggered it?
Avalanche9000 (Etna upgrade) dropped C-Chain minimum fees from 25 nAVAX to 1 nAVAX, a 96% fee cut.
The result:
1️⃣ More L1 launches
Builders deployed Avalanche L1s faster because C-Chain became 25× cheaper to interact with. Every L1 anchor transaction adds blocks.
2️⃣ DeFi migration accelerated
Protocols stopped bridging from Ethereum and launched native. Lower fees = more contract deployments + more daily transactions.
3️⃣ Gaming workloads scaled
Studios building onchain games need sustained throughput. C-Chain already ran 46+ TPS in real time; cheaper fees removed the last friction.
Now C-Chain processes double the blockspace without performance degradation.
Track live block production across @avax 👉 https://t.co/xZM6pmqTVZ
🔭 C-Chain daily block count has sustained growth over 5+ years, with no signs of slowing down.
▫️ ~40k daily blocks baseline (2022–2024)
▫️ Accelerated to 50k+ in early 2025
▫️ Now at 84k blocks/day (May 2026)
C-Chain continues to scale capacity while maintaining uptime.
🔭 C-Chain shifted to a structurally higher baseline.
Last 3 months:
▫️ 2.66M transactions/day (+19% vs prior 3M)
▫️ 787k active addresses/day (+136% vs prior 3M)
Active addresses stabilized at 760–790k/day across Feb, Mar, Apr, as the new floor.
TX/active address ratio slid from ~14 (Oct 2025) to ~3–4 (Apr 2026) as the network it’s onboarding more wallets, with thinner, more distributed usage across a larger base.
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🔭 C-Chain is not growing normally anymore.
Daily transactions hit 2.7M–3.6M while active addresses stabilized around 700k–900k after January.
By early April:
▫️ TX count pushed above 3.6M
▫️ Active addresses grinded at 713k–816k
January → user base expansion
February/March → high-activity plateau
April → higher intensity per wallet
🔺
How does putting business onchain benefit Avalanche?
To answer this question we have to understand another, what are people willing to pay for?
The long-term health of a blockchain depends on sustainable use of the network.
Real businesses are the clearest driver of that. They build products people need, bring in real users, and create repeatable demand.
That demand shows up in the metrics that matter: application revenue, gas usage, returning users, and value flowing across applications and L1s.
Put simply, this is onchain GDP. The measurable economic output of the network.
This is where tokenomics becomes grounded in the fundamentals of business.
More sustainable businesses lead to more users. More users lead to more revenue onchain. And that is what ultimately supports stronger, more sustainable tokenomics.
more businesses = more fees = more burned AVAX.
Sustainable crypto is driven by people paying for things they find useful.
That’s business. And Avalanche is built for business 🔺
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💡 "How are daily transactions trending between Avalanche C-Chain and @dexalot over the last 30 days?"
💡 "Which contracts had the biggest gas spike in the last 7 days?"
💡 How has daily active address count changed on @DeFiKingdoms since launch?
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🚨 Avalanche C-Chain is consistently processing ~2.5M daily transactions, with active addresses
▫️ Daily Transactions: 2,434,161 +13%
▫️ Active Addresses: 756,539 +58%
From mid-January onward, daily active addresses stepped up sharply: C-Chain averaged roughly 913k active addresses per day, with multiple days above one million.
🔺
What this would mean for stakers (paging @coreapp users):
** no timelines for this are mentioned in the thread. Go participate in the discussion on Github. Informational rant incoming from your friendly local Product Support Manager 🤓 please read the quoted thread for more information. **
The staking process in Core would not change. When DYOR'ing (like the responsible users I know you are) - you will want to make sure the uptime for nodes you want to delegate to are in the 90-100% range, not 80-100%.
How can you do this? Use the explorers to check on node performance, historical behavior, and make informed decisions. Some places you can do that outside of the Core web staking dashboard (non exhaustive, we have lots of great explorers in the eco!):
- @avax explorer (https://t.co/kkGbsFalYd)
- @AvascanExplorer (https://t.co/zOw1e0HowY)
- @snowpeerio (https://t.co/Weq9ypWvDM)
What happens if the node I delegated to doesn't reach the 90% uptime minimum proposed?
Unfortunately, this means delegators and validators will not get their staking rewards. This is not a Core wallet decision, it is a network level requirement needing to be met (more information in the thread below).
But when I delegated to this node, it met the uptime requirement. Why did it fall below the threshold after and cause me to not get a reward?
Unfortunately, we can't answer this. This can happen at any time. If the node goes offline and falls below the threshold, the rewards won't be received by the stakers.
With the decentralized nature of the Avalanche network, anyone can be a validator if they meet the minimum requirements, and we can't track them all down and tell them to fix their nodes. There are notification options available for validators (more information on that in the thread below) to help track their uptime.
This is always why myself / my team recommend doing thorough research before staking. NFA as always, we want staking transactions to complete as successfully as you want them to. 🤝🏼
🚨 Avalanche C-Chain throughput is trending up
the real change is on the participation side: active addresses stepped up sharply
▫️ 73.30M total daily transactions Jan (+3.0% MoM vs Dec)
▫️ ~800.4k daily active addresses (+190% MoM)
▫️ 2.63M avg daily transactions (+15.5%)
📊 Transparency made by @routescan_io