Lynq CEO Explains Why Large Firms Need Custom Avalanche L1s
Lynq CEO Explains Why Large Firms Need Custom Avalanche L1s
🏦 Why banks choose custom chains
Lynq Network's CEO Jerald David outlined the key requirements for bringing large-scale financial firms onchain: risk management tools, scalable throughput, and business-specific stability.
Lynq operates a dedicated Avalanche L1 that has processed over $2.5 trillion in transactions across 30+ institutions. The network, powered by Tassat, provides real-time settlement and collateral mobility with full control over validators, participants, and data access.
This approach reflects a broader trend where regulated institutions—including Intain, Dinari, and Broadridge—choose Avalanche L1s for their ability to customize:
- Compliance frameworks at the chain level
- Validator and participant permissions
- Data privacy controls
- Fee structures and performance requirements
Unlike public blockchains with shared infrastructure, Avalanche L1s allow businesses to build blockchain networks that match their operational and regulatory needs.
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. 🔺
Avalanche dominates where compliance matters. Regulated finance won’t trust public blockchains they can’t control. Banks, asset managers, broker-dealers, and capital markets firms need infrastructure that can meet strict requirements around participation, data access,
Other chains: make your business fit our chain. Avalanche: build a custom blockchain around your needs. As @JohnNahas84 explains, Avalanche L1s are purpose-built for different businesses. Building on Avalanche means full control over compliance rules, participants, fee models,
Proxy voting, corporate actions, and shareholder governance are some of the most scrutinized processes in capital markets. @Broadridge brought them onchain with a purpose-built Avalanche L1. Investors can vote directly from their wallets, with actions recorded onchain and
A structured finance platform cannot expose borrower data, loan details, asset valuations, or compliance workflows to the open internet. So @intainft built a permissioned Avalanche L1: controlled participation, restricted validator access, and infrastructure designed around real
Dinari is building regulated infrastructure for tokenized U.S. equities. 250+ U.S. equities, ETFs, and index products. 85+ countries. $800M+ in transaction volume through its partner network. With compliance functionality built in at the native chain level, an Avalanche L1 was
More than 2,000 regional and community banks in the U.S. have historically had limited access to securitization markets. @intainft and @FISGlobal built the Digital Liquidity Gateway on Avalanche to cut down on friction, on intermediaries, and increase transparency. It connects
Lynq. Intain. Dinari. Broadridge. Businesses moving real financial activity onchain, with real users, real volume, and conforming to real compliance obligations. They build their own chain infrastructure on Avalanche to match how their business works: Validator control.
Broadridge Financial Solutions launched a purpose-built Avalanche L1 for proxy voting and shareholder governance. On a fully public network, sensitive governance activity would be open by default. @Broadridge’s L1 supports permissioned participation and controlled data access
IntainADMIN, is the admin engine that feeds data and logic into Intain’s Avalanche-based networks, and serves as the operational backbone behind @intainft’s private Avalanche L1 It handles tokenized loans and ABS with whitelisted validators, KYC/AML allowlists, and encrypted
Where business gets done. 🔺 On Avalanche, businesses can launch purpose-built L1s with their own fee logic, performance requirements, and even use their own token as gas. Only Avalanche L1s can achieve these custom economics. That means businesses can achieve efficiencies that
Lynq connects 30+ institutions through a real-time settlement and collateral mobility network on a dedicated Avalanche L1. Powered by @tassatgroup, the infrastructure behind @Lynq_Network has processed over $2.5T in transactions. At that scale, non-compliant infrastructure
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