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From builders to businesses to everyday users, Avalanche delivers a powerful experience built to drive adoption of blockchain.

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Avalanche is a high-performance blockchain platform designed for builders who need to scale. Avalanche is anchored by its Avalanche Consensus Mechanism, ensuring near-instant finality for transactions, while enabling the seamless creation of interoperable Layer 1 blockchains with high throughput on both public and private networks.

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Enterprise and Consumer Apps Announcement

Nov 20, 2025 / By Avalanche / 3 Minute Read

Royalties in Seconds, Not Months: Music Goes Onchain with Avalanche

How Record Financial and 11am, home to artists like Armani White, RealestK, Lil Tjay, A$AP Ferg, Alex Warren, and Maddox Batson, are bringing real-time royalty infrastructure to the music industry on Avalanche.

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Institutions and Capital Markets Research

Apr 22, 2026 / By Avalanche / 20 Minute Read

Embedded Real World Assets (RWAs): The New Revenue Layer for Fintechs & Neobanks

How yield infrastructure, tokenized equities, and stablecoin payment rails are unlocking new revenue streams for the next generation of financial platforms, and why Avalanche is where it's being built.

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Institutions and Capital Markets Announcement

Apr 14, 2026 / By Avalanche / 4 Minute Read

How Avalanche is Powering Asia’s Financial Revolution

From Seoul to Bangkok to Tokyo, Avalanche is becoming the infrastructure of choice for the continent’s financial giants.

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Enterprise and Consumer Apps Announcement

Apr 14, 2026 / By Avalanche / 4 Minute Read

The Sky Now Has a Verifiable Record

A global telescope network built on Avalanche introduces Proof of Space Observation, turning real-world sky data into verifiable, auditable records.

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Builders Announcement

Mar 30, 2026 / By Avalanche Foundation / 2 Minute Read

The Avalanche Foundation Announces Retro9000 C-Chain Round 2

Applications are now open featuring new multipliers and other updates

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Institutions and Capital Markets Education

Mar 10, 2026 / By Avalanche / 6 Minute Read

Tokenization 101: Public Securities Tokenization – Why Architecture Matters More Than You Think

As trillions in securities move onchain, the architectural choices behind tokenized equities will determine whether blockchain truly improves market structure or simply recreates legacy inefficiencies.

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Announcement

Mar 6, 2026 / By Avalanche Foundation / 2 Minute Read

The Retro9000 C-Chain Round is Live. Earn Rewards for Real Activity on Avalanche.

The Retro9000 C-Chain Round 1 is officially live and the leaderboard has started. It is time to build.

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Ready to make your first move on Avalanche? Learn about the role of AVAX, how to set up a wallet, and ways to start participating in the network, whether its staking AVAX, playing games, using DeFi protocols, and more.

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The AVAX Token

AVAX powers the Avalanche network—used for paying fees, securing the platform, and fueling custom blockchain operations.

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How to setup a wallet

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How to start staking AVAX

Stake your AVAX to start receiving rewards while supporting the network.

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Learn how to set up a validator node to help secure the Avalanche network.

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Breakfast OnFi Fintech TradFi DeFi

Apr 29, 2026

NYC

The OnFi Breakfast Club | Hosted by Avalanche

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