🔺 Call For Research Proposals Update Over 150+ applications were received and have now been through initial review for quality, scope, and relevance. All applicants have been informed of their status. Thank you to everyone who submitted a proposal - the quality and volume of applications has been genuinely encouraging. Selected proposals are now moving to review by our academic research committee, which brings together members from Ava Labs, the Avalanche Foundation, and leading academics with deep expertise in economics, finance, and decentralised network design. Further updates to follow.

The reason cross-border payments are slow isn’t the wire. It’s the pre-funding requirement. Today, banks have to park billions of dollars in dormant accounts around the world so payments can settle when needed. That capital sits idle instead of being put to work. When settlement is guaranteed in seconds at the protocol level, that requirement largely disappears. Capital can remain productive until the moment a payment actually needs to move. That’s what the Avalanche Payments Collective is building toward.

A $160B market. Zero platform loyalty. Fans love events, not buying tickets. Sports Illustrated Tickets chose to build something better. At Summit, CEO David Lane will explain how @si_tickets_ uses Avalanche to create lasting fan relationships. Tickets: David launched Sports Illustrated Tickets in 2021 and has grown it into a live-events marketplace spanning sports, concerts, and theater, alongside an onchain primary ticketing platform. His view is simple: blockchain should stay out of the fan’s way while giving event organizers better tools to reward loyalty, build lasting relationships, and create value after the ticket is sold. Come to Summit to learn how SI Tickets is using Avalanche to rethink the ticket as more than admission, and turn a one-time purchase into an ongoing fan experience. Sept 16–17 | Chelsea Industrial, NYC

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. SMBC, Japan’s second-largest bank, is exploring stablecoin infrastructure for wholesale institutional payments. It is also working alongside MUFG and Mizuho on a potential yen-pegged stablecoin initiative built on Avalanche. @StraitsX is working with KBank through Project BLOOM to develop payment infrastructure that can improve settlement across Southeast Asian corridors where moving money remains particularly slow and expensive. AeraTech helps multinational companies manage cash across subsidiaries, offset internal obligations, and settle inter-company payments without unnecessarily routing every transaction through external banks. These different companies all represent or engage with different parts of the payment and treasury stack. But they all have a shared goal: keep capital working longer, move it when it is needed, and make cross-border payments faster and more efficient. That is what the Avalanche Payments Collective is bringing together. Frictionless, borderless payments that really are instant, simple, and straightforward.

Summit is going to be top tier. From the build out and design to the speaker lineup, attendees, media, and swag, every detail has been intentionally thought through. You’ll be surrounded by some of the smartest founders, builders, institutions, policymakers, and operators in the world. But what excites me most is that this isn’t another conference where everyone is talking about crypto to other crypto people. This is where you’ll see how blockchain is actually being adopted by businesses, governments, and institutions around the world. The conversations are real. The use cases are real. The people building the future are all in one place. If you want to understand where this industry is actually headed, you don’t want to miss Summit.

BREAKING : Kbank, the banking gateway for Korea's largest crypto exchange Upbit, announced it is building a stablecoin-based remittance market on @avax. What's even more interesting is the larger crypto ecosystem they are building with #KoreaTelecom# and #BCCard#, their sister companies in the conglomerate. An ecosystem at this scale needs infrastructure with a proven track record. And that's why it's @avax, technology built for business.🔺

Everyone talks about bringing real-world assets onchain. @DinariGlobal just did it with 724 tokenized U.S. stocks including the full S&P 500, live on Avalanche for U.S. investors. What makes this work different is the registered broker-dealer, real shares in real brokerage accounts, USDC settlement via @circle, and self-custody. There also aren't any synthetic wrappers or offshore workarounds. This level of work is what I mean when I say blockchain needs to be the infrastructure and not the headline. The rails are Avalanche. The experience is just better 🔺

Blockchain is simply a better ledger. Yet finance still relies on outdated infrastructure and layers of middlemen. At Summit, Carlos Domingo, CEO of @Securitize, will show how moving finance onchain is changing markets for the better. Tickets: @carlosdomingo co-founded Securitize to modernize how securities are issued, managed, and traded through compliant tokenization infrastructure. The company has worked with BlackRock, Apollo, KKR, and Hamilton Lane to bring traditional assets onchain and improve how money and ownership move through the financial system. Come to Summit to hear from someone who helped build the foundation for tokenized finance, and learn how atomic settlement, fewer intermediaries, and more efficient infrastructure can free capital and improve the way financial assets transact. Sept 16–17 | Chelsea Industrial, NYC

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

Why is Avalanche Summit in New York? The capital. The institutions. The regulators. The builders turning ideas into real products. New York is home to many shaping the industry, and a meeting point for builders everywhere. You should be there, too: Avalanche Summit brings us all together for two focused days of big ideas, connections, and opportunities that move the industry forward. September 16–17 Chelsea Industrial, NYC

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.

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.

The Avalanche Payments Collective brings together the infrastructure moving money globally across 150+ countries. The companies building here today will define the next generation of payments. And it’s all happening on Avalanche.

Over the past several months, we’ve focused on one thing: showing what’s possible when blockchain technology is put to work. Today, we’re bringing that story together. Our new brand reflects a simple belief: the future of blockchain will be defined by businesses using the technology to move money, modernize infrastructure, and create entirely new products and experiences. You’ll also notice a renewed connection to the imagery that inspired our name. Because like an avalanche, transformational change builds slowly, gains momentum, and eventually becomes impossible to ignore. That’s the moment we believe this industry is entering. Avalanche. Technology Built for Business.

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: 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

For @Lynq_Network, helping large-scale firms move on chain meant: • risk management tools • scalable throughput • the stability of an Avalanche L1 that’s built for their business. Jerald David, CEO of Lynq, explains. 🔺