Institutions need compliance. They need connectivity. And they need infrastructure that makes tokenized assets useful. Great to see @carlosdomingo Domingo, Co-Founder & CEO of @Securitize, sharing his perspective on why Avalanche matters for institutional tokenization.

Recap from @token2049: - great seeing partners old and new - lots of excitement around avalanche and where we’re headed - feels like the industry, the market, and our vision are finally coming together at the same time - we’ve been working toward this for a long time, so it was good to hear people recognize the hard things we’ve taken on and the patience they require - the conference felt more grown up and professional this year, with some of the usual crypto chaos still mixed in - Singapore humidity remains undefeated, especially with the smoke

Always good to be back in Singapore and looking forward to speaking on stage about how Avalanche is helping bring global markets and everyday financial products from online to onchain: • 12:15 PM: How Avalanche Is Moving Institutions Onchain, BitDev Stage at @token2049 with @HadickM • 3:20 PM: Bringing Digital Dollars into Everyday Finance, Investor Stage at @blockworksDAS with @gdog97_ and @gbartsmith Come say hi if you’re here!

Summit was phenomenal! Having so many of our partners in one place, discussing why blockchain, and why Avalanche made it even more special. Onwards🔺 By the numbers: 1500+ Attendees 130+ Speakers 50+ Sessions 27 Sponsors 600+ Companies 70+ Investment Firms and Capital Allocators 65% Director level and above 400+ Founders and Executives 50+ Countries Represented + our amazing community!

The latest Avalanche upgrade introduced Continuous Execution (CE), a new way to improve the performance of blockchains by taking advantage of parallelism. It’s exciting technical stuff that you should know about so you understand what makes Avalanche so fast, or if you're not using Avalanche, what you're missing out on. Avalanche has always had an architecture that takes advantage of coarse-grained parallelism. Namely, Avalanche L1s capture parallelism via separate chains, where unrelated groups of activities can execute independently of each other, without having to wait for or congest shared resources. This was a huge step forward when we introduced it 6 years ago. Compared to older, single-chain systems, this multichain architecture enabled Avalanche to offer infinite capacity. A game doesn't have to compete with DeFi on Avalanche, whereas on single chain systems, even an NFT offering would cause problems by creating congestion and bumping transaction fees. While this took advantage of the largest source of parallelism and enabled Avalanche to be one of the fastest chains in the first place, there are further opportunities for improvement, and Continuous Execution taps into the next greatest source of parallelism, namely, the overlap between consensus and execution within a single chain. The two most expensive activities in any blockchain are consensus, that is, the work required to get all of the participants to agree on what happened and when, and execution, the work required to actually process those transactions and update the state of the system. Traditionally, these two activities have taken turns. Continuous Execution allows Avalanche to overlap them. While the system is achieving consensus on one set of transactions, it is simultaneously executing previously agreed-upon transactions. Think of the chain as a jet. Execution is flight, transactions are the fuel, and consensus is refueling. Before CE, the jet had to land every time it needed to refuel. The chain would execute, stop to perform consensus work, execute again, then stop again. Continuous Execution changes that. Now the jet can refuel while it is still in the air. Consensus and execution happen concurrently, so the chain no longer has to constantly switch between the two. The flight becomes continuous, with no unnecessary interruptions or mode switching. To put this in perspective, before CE, Avalanche validators were spending somewhere between 20 to 60 milliseconds per block on verification, sometimes even as high as 150ms. CE dropped that down to an average of 2 milliseconds of wall clock time with negligible variance. And this is especially important because verification happens at each step during gossip dissemination. It isn’t simply 40 milliseconds saved once. That time was being incurred on every hop as a block spread through the network. There is also a deeper technical point here. The work that previously had to happen in consensus goes from potentially unbounded computation to linear in the number of transactions. We achieve this by taking advantage of the monotonicity of gas prices under maximum load, so the execution thread is never forced to pause due to estimation errors. We’ve always prided ourselves on bringing the best of science to blockchain technology, on being pragmatic, and on attacking the highest-yield opportunities first. With Continuous Execution built on top of the multi-threaded Avalanche architecture, Avalanche has taken advantage of the two biggest sources of parallelism: coarse-grained parallelism across separate chains, and the overlap between consensus and execution within a single chain. For Avalanche, consensus and execution no longer need to operate in bursts, constantly stopping and waiting on each other, it just keeps going with no dead time.

This is EXACTLY the kind of infrastructure we’ve been working toward. Goldman Sachs’ $100B Treasury fund is coming to Avalanche through Lynq, putting institutional capital directly into the same rails firms already use. This creates a much bigger opportunity for our partners, and it’s possible on Avalanche 🔺

The staking changes that come with the Helicon upgrade remove a huge barrier for regulated institutions and opens Avalanche up to a much broader world of companies that previously couldn’t participate in securing the network. Just last week, we saw $500b asset manager, Janus Henderson, share that they have become an Avalanche validator, the first of many 🔺

Thank you to everyone who joined us at Avalanche Summit in New York this week! Two packed days with founders, investors, institutions, developers, partners, and friends from around the world, all in one place. What stood out to me most was the quality of the conversations and the amount of real work happening across this ecosystem. We’ve come a long way, and there’s a lot more ahead. Huge credit to our team for pulling off an incredible week. Until next time 🔺

This industry is growing up. I've been in this a long time, back when the job was proving blockchain was real at all. Somebody had to do it, and what's changed is who's asking and what they want to know. What it costs, who's liable, whether it fits the rules they already answer to. Those are infrastructure questions. That's what I mean when I say blockchain, not crypto. Wyoming's been at this for years. You can tell, because nobody in Jackson needed the usual crash course. Great write-up from @daily_cowboy