Avalanche

The NYSE said Monday it will settle tokenized stocks on its upcoming 24/7 trading platform exclusively using Avalanche, per a Wall Street Journal exclusive published November 9, 2026. An NYSE-affiliated platform is building its core clearing and settlement layer on Avalanche, supporting 24/7 trading, clearing, and settlement of tokenized U.S. equities and ETFs, targeting a Q4 launch; the NYSE confirmed the arrangement on its own X account, and Avalanche amplified the breaking announcement on its official account.

• Per LowBeta, the deal is exclusive: NYSE tested multiple providers and chose Avalanche for its speed and throughput after roughly a year of evaluation with ICE, including tests against the exchange's Pillar matching engine. NYSE Chief Product Officer Kevin Tyrrell cited speed and throughput as the deciding factors.
• The NYSE followed up with a video explainer featuring Ava Labs President and COO Charley Cooper, calling the partnership "a landmark step toward the next generation of global financial markets."
• Ava Labs' Morgan Krupetsky confirmed Avalanche will provide the core ledger technology behind the clearing and settlement infrastructure; Grayscale highlighted the pick and its AVAX exposure; Avalanche Foundation welcomed the NYSE as "an important milestone in bringing global financial markets onchain."
• The platform remains subject to regulatory approvals.

Charles Schwab has made Avalanche (AVAX) available to buy and sell for Schwab Crypto™ clients, alongside newly added solana (SOL) and chainlink (LINK). The additions mark the platform's first crypto expansion beyond Bitcoin and Ethereum, bringing AVAX access to retail investors through one of the largest U.S. brokerages (the firm manages about $13T).

Cointelegraph reported the additions as breaking news, and Avalanche amplified the coverage on its official X account via retweet. The listing follows Schwab's earlier research naming Avalanche a leader in real-world assets and institutional use cases, deepening the firm's engagement with the network.

Tampa Bay Lightning have gone live with Bolts Rewards, making the team the NHL's first onchain franchise: the fan-loyalty program runs on Avalanche through Uptop, letting fans turn everyday purchases into points redeemable for tickets, merchandise, and exclusive experiences.

• Bolts Rewards extends Uptop's run of sports-team loyalty programs on Avalanche, following Marquette Athletics' Marquette Rewards and the Cleveland Cavaliers' onchain loyalty results.
• Avalanche announced the program as breaking news on its official X account, framing it as the first NHL team built onchain.

Avalanche is now accessible to 2M+ registered users through Zengo, the self-custodial crypto wallet owned by eToro. Zengo formally welcomed AVAX into its app alongside users' other crypto, highlighting that assets are secured by MPC and that the wallet has never been hacked since 2018; Avalanche amplified the welcome on its official X account.

• The integration brings Avalanche to a broader global audience of retail users via self-custody, extending its reach beyond exchange and institutional channels.
• Zengo is an eToro company, and the addition follows eToro's acquisition of the wallet earlier this year.

Dubai's DIFC Courts (Dubai International Financial Centre Courts) are issuing court orders and official documents with NFT-based credentials on Avalanche, enabling instant worldwide verification in seconds — and have now launched a Dispute Resolution Oracle at the Future Tokenisation Forum in Dubai. The courts handled $5.1B across 2,500+ claims in 2025.

• The Dispute Resolution Oracle (DRO) is designed to connect blockchain-based smart contracts with a court or other agreed dispute-resolution forum, extending the courts' onchain work beyond document verification; Deca4 Advisory, the courts' blockchain technology partner, built the systems.
• Issuance happens on Avalanche in Dubai, while confidential documents stay off chain.
• Cointelegraph reported the NFT-credential move as breaking news — the first of its kind for one of the world's most international courts — and CoinDesk covered the shift of legal documents onchain; Avalanche amplified the DRO launch on its X account.
• Avalanche frames the adoption as powering "a new standard of trust," extending its run of government and institutional use cases alongside UAE PASS and Kenya's KNEC.

Avalanche's Team1 community posted its October 2026 recap on X, highlighting South Korea's rules for a $5T onchain stock market and the launch of an official Team1JP chapter, among other network developments from the month. Avalanche amplified the recap on its official X account via retweet.

• The recap frames Korea's onchain securities framework and the new Japan-focused Team1 chapter as key milestones in Avalanche's institutional and regional expansion.

Pump.fun has added Avalanche ecosystem tokens to its app, letting users discover and trade new and existing tokens from the network. The launchpad announced the integration on its X account, and Avalanche amplified it via a retweet on its official account.

• The move is part of Pump.fun's push to support tokens beyond its Solana roots, following similar announcements for other chains.
• It opens up a new distribution and trading venue for Avalanche-based tokens in the meme-coin-focused app.

Finch, an AI agent economy platform, has brought settlement for its skill, agent, and task markets live on Avalanche. On Finch, businesses hire AI agents to do work while developers sell skills to the agents that need them, with payments settling directly on the network.

• Avalanche amplified the announcement on its official X account via a retweet of Finch's launch post.
• The launch extends Avalanche's push into AI-focused activity, positioning the network as settlement infrastructure for agent-driven commerce.

NEC, a global biometric identity leader with 1,000+ systems deployed in 70+ countries, is exploring combining identity verification and stablecoin payments in a single approval on Avalanche. Per the announcement, NEC signed a memorandum of understanding with Ava Labs to explore biometric-verified onchain services, beginning with a jointly published whitepaper proposing to verify a payer's face and settle a stablecoin payment in one step — without putting biometric data on-chain.

• The framework pairs NEC's FaceVC biometric identity layer with Avalanche's multi-chain architecture, covering payment execution, reward issuance, and a registry for verifiable credentials.
• Avalanche announced the exploration on its official X account, with a follow-up post linking to more detail on how NEC is utilizing the network for stablecoin payments.

Ethena Pay's new Earn+ vault, powered by Avalanche, is live with higher target yields for eligible users: a single-tap deposit into a vault managed by Upshift and Steakhouse, with the strategy running on Aave v4 on Avalanche. Earn+ is available now for Pro and VIP users and rolling out to all.

• The product launch is helping fuel a surge in network deposits — Aave v4 deposits on Avalanche hit an all-time high, topping $125M, which Avalanche is attributing to Earn+ bringing more deposits into v4.
• Avalanche amplified the milestone on its official X account in a follow-up to EthenaPay's Earn+ announcement of up to 12% rewards on dollars.