BENQI Announces Major UI Upgrades at Avalanche Summit LATAM

**Major Institutional Move on Avalanche** AVAX One has deployed over 800,000 AVAX tokens into Treehouse Finance's tAVAX strategy, marking a significant institutional adoption milestone. **Key Details:** - The tAVAX strategy is powered by BENQI's infrastructure - Combines liquid staking with lending market efficiency - Aims to deliver optimized risk-adjusted returns on Avalanche - Represents growing institutional confidence in DeFi yield strategies **What This Means:** The deployment demonstrates institutional players are actively seeking sophisticated yield opportunities in DeFi. By leveraging BENQI's liquid staking protocol, the strategy allows staked AVAX to remain productive across multiple DeFi applications while earning staking rewards. Treehouse Finance positions this as a step forward for both institutional DeFi adoption and the efficiency of yield strategies on Avalanche. [Read the full announcement](https://www.treehouse.finance/blog/avax-one)

**BENQI introduces liquid staking on Avalanche**, converting staked AVAX into sAVAX tokens that maintain liquidity while earning rewards. **How it works:** - Stake AVAX and receive sAVAX in return - BENQI routes assets to Avalanche validator nodes on the P-Chain automatically - Uses secure MPC encryption for bridging between C-Chain and P-Chain - Users stay on C-Chain and can use sAVAX immediately across DeFi **Key benefits:** - No lock-up periods or fees - Earn staking rewards without sacrificing liquidity - Use sAVAX in AMMs, lending protocols, or liquidity pools - Institutional adoption accelerating in February The protocol simplifies the traditional staking experience by handling technical complexity behind the scenes, letting users earn yield while maintaining flexibility to deploy their assets across the Avalanche ecosystem.

**Anchorage Digital has integrated BENQI's liquid staking solution**, enabling institutional clients to stake AVAX and mint sAVAX directly through their platform. **Key Integration Benefits:** - Seamless AVAX staking and sAVAX minting for institutional clients - Access to Avalanche's liquid staking ecosystem at institutional scale - Built on sAVAX's proven reliability and composability **BENQI's Growing Dominance:** - 23.3M AVAX currently staked (+5.7M month-over-month) - sAVAX represents 4.3% of all AVAX in circulation - Over 63,000 active stakers using the protocol This partnership extends **institutional-grade access** to Avalanche DeFi, allowing clients to earn staking rewards while maintaining liquidity for other DeFi activities across the ecosystem.

**NXPC token is now available on BENQI's Avalanche lending markets** Users can supply NXPC to earn rewards, with full reward details coming this week. **What is NXPC?** - Powers the Nexpace ecosystem and MapleStory Universe Web3 game - Enables true NFT ownership and trading of in-game items - Built on Avalanche for scalability **The ecosystem uses:** - NXPC for transactions - NESO for gameplay mechanics - Avalanche L1 infrastructure This integration brings nostalgic gaming into modern DeFi through [BENQI's lending platform](https://app.benqi.fi/lending).

**BENQI introduces tangible governance** through its new Node Voting system, allowing users to leverage BENQI Miles for enhanced validator rewards. **Key Features:** - Use BENQI Miles to vote for personal validators - Earn increased $AVAX validation rewards - Validator owners can receive delegations from BENQI Liquid Staking - Amplify validation rewards through increased stake **Community Impact:** This system represents a step toward BENQI's goal of becoming a **truly community-led protocol**. Validator operators can now leverage their Miles to boost their node's delegation and rewards. The voting mechanism creates a direct connection between governance participation and financial incentives, making protocol decisions more tangible for users.