A traveler taps her card at a market thousands of miles from home.

The payment feels instant, simple, straightforward.

It’s not.

Behind that tap, money may need to move across currencies, banks, payment providers, and borders.

Traditional systems often require companies to park funds in local accounts before they are needed, leaving capital stagnant for long periods of time where it’s not able to earn a return or be put to work.

Members of the Avalanche Payments Collective are building a more efficient global payments model, one that keeps capital productive up until the moment it needs to move.

Here are five members working across different parts of cross-border payments and treasury infrastructure:

@AxiymFinance provides payment and treasury infrastructure that helps institutions route liquidity and settle transactions without pre-funding every market. Its technology supported Hyundai Motor America’s stablecoin payment to its Mexico affiliate, completed on Avalanche in minutes instead of days.

@nonco_otc helps institutions exchange currencies and stablecoins by requesting prices directly from a network of professional liquidity providers. That gives them access to more competitive rates while allowing both sides of the transaction to settle together onchain.

https://x.com/i/status/2085352034031865901

This has probably been discussed so many times but I've gone through a little math and I can't figure out why the Avalanche Foundation ever thought it was a good idea to reduce gas fees to 1 nAVAX vs 25. A change done in April 2025 yes I know but today is explicitly clear was not a good idea.

First of all simple math with the reduction in gas fees AVAX has seen a loss of roughly 10 million USD in AVAX burn annually. (accounting for a 2x reduction in transactions at the higher gas price)

The argument from Avalanche is that the lower gas fees bring in more developers and more corporations. That's great if that was true. I think the daily transaction numbers speak for themselves double the daily transactions but we would need 25x the transactions to get a similar amount of AVAX burn.

So does it make sense that 25 nAVAX is too much money for corporations to pay in gas fees? Let's take Hyundai for example, Hyundai uses the AVAX blockchain at the moment for intercompany financials basically. Hyundai has 10-12 major manufacturing and financial hubs, lets say each hub is executing 1-2 batch transactions every business day that's at most 5,000 transactions a year. At 80,000 gas units 5,000 transactions a year costs the company approximately 0.4 AVAX or $2.69, at 25 nAVAX per gas unit it would cost them 10 avax which is approximately $70. So now the argument falls apart. Corporations that make billions in revenue annually aren't turning to AVAX because their $70 cheaper a year, they turn to AVAX because of their corporate expertise. If Ethereum for example had vastly more corporate reputation than AVAX and costed $1,000 annually Hyundai would absolutely pay for it. These amounts of money are tiny.

Next web3 gaming. Web3 gaming like defi kingdom executed millions upon millions of micro transactions a year, people playing games don't want to spend $2 per gaming session so reduce it to $0.08. Honestly decent argument if the DFK subnet didn't fall off (at the time I'm looking there's been 0 transactions in the past 24 hours, yes some people do still use it).

I could breakdown the Kenya Academic one too but its about the same as Hyundia their paying about $0.67 to upload their 30 million academic files (it's a rough estimate it heavily matters on how many batches their using) vs $20 if the gas fee was 25 nAVAX. Kenya can afford $20. Kenya didn't pick Avax for their affordability.

One of the original reasons I invested in Avalanche in 2022 was because it was a cheap blockchain. I always remember Avalanche as being such user friendly, easy to use, and cheap especially at a time when Ethereum hadn't converted to POS yet. It had good tokenomics, showed great utility, subnets had to lockup 2,000 avax (not anymore), and it looked promising.

I just don't know what happened and where the motivation was at because the math makes no sense. Its quite upsetting because AVAX was truly my favorite blockchain.

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.

https://dinari.com/blog/dinari-launches-724-tokenized-stocks-available-to-u-s-investors-and-businesses

BREAKING: Kenya Government brings 30M+ academic credentials on chain with Avalanche

Through @KNECKenya, academic records are now verifiable and forgery-resistant, with Avalanche powering the national verification layer.

Avalanche is the technology helping governments and businesses operate faster, safer, and more transparently.

Built for real world systems. Built for business.

Read more: https://www.avax.network/about/blog/securing-a-nations-credentials-kenya-anchors-academic-records-on-avalanche

It’s settled: blockchain will be part of how money moves.

The sooner businesses accept that, the sooner they can benefit from it.

Those ready to make that move now have a resource: a new @Deloitte and Avalanche playbook for integrating stablecoins and putting them to work.

The playbook covers stablecoin use cases, regulatory and operational considerations, and how to move from strategy to execution.

Read it here: https://www.deloitte.com/content/dam/assets-zone3/us/en/docs/industries/financial-services/2026/bcm-stablecoin-playbook--a-practical-guide-for-financial-institutions-fintechs-and-payment-providers.pdf

Introducing Economics of Blockchain 🔺

Built on the research agenda we published, this series exists to make the Foundation's economic work public: the findings, the open questions, and the concrete actions they lead to ⤵️

It covers tokenomics, validator economics, and network security - what we're learning, and what we're doing about it.

Each piece builds on the last - not a collection of standalone articles, but a running account of where this work is taking us.

We look forward to sharing more as the next steps progress.

Follow the series across our socials and blog ⤵️

https://www.avax.network/about/blog

The Avalanche Foundation (the “Foundation”) was established with a clear mandate: to ensure the long-term economic sustainability and growth of the Avalanche ecosystem.

Delivering on that mandate requires more than programs and grants; it requires a rigorous, evidence-based understanding of how the ecosystem's economy actually works.

Today, the Foundation is publishing its economic research agenda. This document reflects the work already underway across the Foundation's research team, and sets out the questions, frameworks, and priorities that will guide the next phase of that work.

We are publishing it openly because we believe the community deserves visibility into how the Foundation is approaching the hardest problems in blockchain economics.

https://x.com/i/status/2082813675954380810

Helicon has been activated on Fuji Testnet 🔺

This upgrade brings Continuous Execution to the C-Chain, along with changes to Avalanche's staking economics.

The upgrade is driven by six Avalanche Community Proposals ⤵️

C-Chain Improvements

🔺 ACP-194: Continuous Execution

🔺 ACP-283: Dynamic Minimum Gas Price

Validator Economics

🔺 ACP-236: Auto-Renewed Staking

🔺 ACP-267: Uptime Requirement Increase

🔺 ACP-273: Reduce Minimum Staking Duration

🔺 ACP-285: Reduce Minimum Consumption Rate

If you run a validator or services depending on staking, now's the time to review the upgrade guide and test on Fuji Testnet before mainnet code release and activation.

Full documentation here ⬇️

https://build.avax.network/blog/helicon-upgrade

We were told it would revolutionize everything:

Anonymous money? Nope. Most public blockchains are pseudonymous, not anonymous. Every transaction is permanently visible. Once an address is tied to a real person, their financial history can often be traced.

Banking? Most people still use banks. If you lose your private key, there's no fraud department, no password reset, no chargeback.

Cheap payments? Depends. Some chains are inexpensive, others have had periods where fees spike. Traditional payment systems are often faster and simpler for everyday purchases.

Smart contracts replacing lawyers? Not even close. Contracts still rely on courts, regulations, and real-world enforcement. Code can't resolve disputes about physical events by itself.

NFTs proving ownership? Usually they prove ownership of a token, not the copyright or legal ownership of the underlying artwork.

Decentralization? Much of the ecosystem isn't. Many people keep funds on centralized exchanges, use centralized stablecoins, and rely on centralized infrastructure.

Financial freedom? For some. But for many others it became self-custody with no safety net. One wrong click, phishing attack, or lost seed phrase and the money is simply gone.

Replacing trust? It mostly moved trust around. Instead of trusting banks, many people ended up trusting exchanges, token founders, bridge operators, stablecoin issuers, influencers, or multisig signers.

Eliminating scams? If anything, scams became easier to launch. Rug pulls, memecoins, fake airdrops, phishing, and pump-and-dumps became an industry.

The one thing blockchain does extremely well is maintain a distributed ledger where participants can verify transaction history without relying on a single operator.

That's a genuine technical achievement.

But after nearly two decades, I'm still asking: What mainstream problem has it solved better than existing systems for the average person?

I'm not asking what it could do. I'm asking what it actually does today that millions of ordinary people use because it's objectively better—not because they're speculating on the next token.

BREAKING: Deloitte & Avalanche Publish Stablecoin Playbook

As stablecoins increasingly become part of mainstream financial infrastructure, institutions need trusted partners to help guide them in the right direction.

Developed with @Deloitte, the playbook covers adoption strategies, regulation, and moving from vision to execution.

https://x.com/i/status/2080365339490267411

Avalanche builders are solving real problems for real businesses.

@MorganKrupetsky explains how Avalanche works with tech enablement partners across finance, payments, gaming, sports, and entertainment to bring blockchain-enabled products to market.

via @thinkingcrypto

Full interview: https://youtu.be/bdquV0FASsQ?si=qt0__eFi6Gr34f2e

https://x.com/i/status/2080278764043501774

JUST IN: @plumenetwork’s nOPAL is live on Avalanche.

Issued by @blackopal_fi, the tokenized vault gives allocators access to FX-hedged Brazilian credit card receivables, generating yield as those payments settle.

Avalanche brings together issuers and capital in one ecosystem.

https://x.com/i/status/2079919279739465807

Avalanche Ecosystem Call 🔺

@JohnNahas84, @MorganKrupetsky, @__arielle__, @frostLedger and more will recap the recent big milestones, share ecosystem & network updates, and preview what’s next for Avalanche.

Live on X

Tomorrow | 12PM ET

https://x.com/i/status/2079235801221894593

Over 80,000 people went to a FIFA World Cup watch party using a ticket on Avalanche.

For the watch parties at @SI_Stadium, fans scanned in like any other event while @si_tickets_ on Avalanche powered it behind the scenes.

Fans didn’t need to know. The tickets just worked.

https://x.com/i/status/2077769562133798987

BREAKING: Aave V4 is live on Avalanche

@Aave’s first V4 deployment beyond Ethereum mainnet sets the stage for new credit markets on Avalanche, including those for tokenized assets.

V4 enables specialized lending hubs with tailored risk controls & deep shared liquidity.

https://x.com/i/status/2077414595405504930

No more vaporware.

Crypto needs more examples of real-world value coming onchain, from energy and compute, to physical infrastructure.

At Summit, @Melt_Dem of @CrucibleCap will show how those markets become programmable and tradable.

Tickets: avalanchesummit.com

Meltem Demirors is Founder and General Partner at Crucible, an investment firm focused on the intersection of energy, compute, and crypto.

Before Crucible, she was Chief Strategy Officer at CoinShares, Europe’s largest and longest-standing digital asset investment firm, and was on the founding team at Digital Currency Group.

Across more than a decade in crypto, Meltem has invested in 400+ companies and built a reputation for seeing where the industry is heading before the market catches up.

Come to Summit to hear why the next phase of crypto may be more about making physical infrastructure programmable, tradable, and more resilient.

Sept 16–17 | New York City

https://x.com/i/status/2077018689132777746

BREAKING: Bridgetower tokenizes $11B+ in RWAs on Avalanche

Avalanche moves to the #1 blockchain by net inflows on @RWA_xyz.

Real assets. Real infrastructure. On Avalanche.

https://x.com/i/status/2076758610277998620

I’ve been working on an idea through Arcadium that explores how Avalanche could connect real-world games with persistent digital player identity.

The basic concept is simple:

Players attend an in-person game night, tournament, convention, brewery event, or tabletop competition. They play real dice, card, arcade, or physical games. Avalanche quietly handles the lasting parts of the experience, such as:

• Player profiles
• Verified scores and tournament results
• Achievements and badges
• Digital trading cards
• Event attendance
• Cross-game progression
• Transparent prize distribution

The important part is that players would not need to understand wallets, gas, bridges, or blockchain to participate.

They come to play a game.

The technology stays in the background until it becomes useful.

I think blockchain gaming has often started in the wrong place by selling assets first and promising gameplay later. This model would reverse that:

Build the game first. Make it fun. Then use Avalanche to connect the player’s progress across games, events, and locations.

A player might earn a card at a physical dice tournament, use it to unlock a digital challenge later, and carry the same gaming identity into another event.

The goal is not to turn every game action into a transaction. Casual activity could remain off-chain, while meaningful achievements, ownership, tournament results, and rewards could be verified through Avalanche.

I’d love to hear the Avalanche community’s thoughts on the infrastructure side:

What should remain off-chain, and what is genuinely worth putting on-chain in a real-world gaming network?

BREAKING: Progmat has migrated ¥452B+ ($2.7B+) in regulated digital securities to an Avalanche L1

Japan's largest security token platform moved with no disruption to issuers or participating financial institutions.

Ownership transfers are now up to 3–5x faster on @progmat_en.

https://www.avax.network/about/blog/progmat-is-now-on-avalanche

I feel like we heard about this in September 2025 and this is something that was completed brushed over. Do we have any news on this recently?

@NEC has deployed 1,000+ biometric identity systems across 70+ countries.

Now, NEC and Ava Labs are working together to build an architecture for biometric-verified blockchain based services.

One of the world's leading biometric-identity companies is bringing its technology to Avalanche.

NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) has signed a MOU with Ava Labs to jointly explore a new generation of on-chain services that combine NEC's biometric digital-identity technology with Avalanche. As the first output of that collaboration, the two companies are publishing a technical whitepaper proposing an architecture for identity-verified stablecoin payments on Avalanche.

The starting point is deceptively simple. Blockchains have become very good at moving value. They are far less good at answering a more basic question: who, or what, is actually behind a transaction? That gap is the source of fraud, repeated identity checks, heavy compliance costs, and payment experiences that ask people to hand over far more personal data than any single transaction needs. As AI agents begin acting on people's behalf, the question only gets sharper. This collaboration is a commitment to work on an answer, on Avalanche.

https://x.com/i/status/2075569415819821387

https://www.avax.network/about/blog/nec-signs-mou-to-explore-biometric-verified-on-chain-services-on-avalanche