Avalanche Summit NYC confirmed CoinDesk as its official media partner for the September 16–17 event in New York City, with CoinDesk back on board and streaming live. CoinDesk will broadcast from the summit, conducting interviews with attendees and streaming the two days of programming to a global audience.
Baylor Athletics launched a new fan rewards platform built with Uptop on Avalanche. Fans can connect with their favorite teams, earn points at participating Baylor sponsors, and redeem them for tickets, merchandise, and exclusive access.
Avalanche Developers released AvalancheGo v1.15.0, the Helicon Mainnet node client, with an upgrade window requiring validators and operators to upgrade before activation at 11 AM ET (3 PM UTC) on the scheduled September date. The release is the latest mainnet node client for the Avalanche network, and operators are advised to update ahead of activation.
Avalanche's Team1 awarded a $5,000 'Builder Mini Grant' to Empowr, an app by @KryptoCEO. The grant is part of Team1's program supporting builders growing the ecosystem.
The announcement, shared via the Avalanche X account, highlights ongoing community support for early-stage projects on the network.
Hanwha Investment & Securities, part of the $200B Korean conglomerate Hanwha Group, is building a tokenized securities platform on Avalanche, bringing traditional assets into global onchain markets. The news was amplified by Cointelegraph and on Avalanche's account, with ecosystem figures pointing to Hanwha as the story — one of Korea's largest conglomerates adopting the network for institutional-grade asset tokenization.
Cointelegraph amplified the news that South Korea is moving its entire capital markets infrastructure onchain, powered by Avalanche. The Financial Services Commission and Korea Securities Depository are laying the groundwork to put stocks, bonds, and funds onchain, connecting the full capital markets to the network.
South Korea is bringing its entire capital markets infrastructure onchain, powered by Avalanche. The Financial Services Commission and Korea Securities Depository are laying the groundwork to put stocks, bonds, and funds onchain, connecting the full capital markets to the network.
Aave V4 deposits on Avalanche have climbed to nearly $20 million, setting fresh all-time highs week after week, according to Cointelegraph. The growth highlights rising DeFi activity on Avalanche's C-Chain.
Ethena launched Ethena Pay, its "internet money neobank" built on Avalanche, now live for download on iOS. The app brings everyday banking onchain, letting users save, send, and spend USDe worldwide, with Avalanche powering the rails and the launch offering up to 6% yield and 10% cashback. Avalanche described Ethena as a "digital dollar giant," and the launch drew attention from the Avalanche and Cointelegraph accounts.
The Block subsequently published a closer look at Ethena Pay, framing it as a consumer neobank coming directly from the dollar issuer itself rather than a traditional bank or fintech wrapper.
Avalanche Summit NYC announced The Block as an official media partner for the September 16–17 event in New York City. The Block will conduct two days of interviews with the founders and executives building onchain finance, published live from the conference floor.
The Etna upgrade restructured the subnet model (renaming subnets to Avalanche L1s), cutting validator stake requirements and deployment costs substantially.
The March 6, 2024 mainnet activation introduced Avalanche Warp Messaging (AWM), letting subnets communicate natively with the C-Chain and enabling cross-chain interoperability.
The whistleblower group alleged Ava Labs used Roche Freedman law firm to weaponize litigation against competitors; Ava Labs CEO Emin Gün Sirer denied the claims as false.
The Avalanche Foundation announced a $230 million raise from a consortium including Polychain Capital and Three Arrows Capital through a private AVAX token sale to boost ecosystem liquidity.
Ava Labs launched the Avalanche mainnet on September 21, 2020, issuing the platform's native cryptocurrency AVAX and making it tradeable on exchanges including Binance.
The token sale sold roughly 72 million AVAX tokens in under 4.5 hours on July 15, 2020, from investors in about 100 countries, ahead of the mainnet launch.
The consensus protocol underlying Avalanche was introduced in a May 2018 whitepaper; Cornell researchers including Emin Gün Sirer later expanded on the concept and formed Ava Labs.
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