Avalanche🔺

Today, we’re launching the Avalanche Payments Collective. Founding participants include Franklin Templeton, VanEck, Anchorage Digital, Paxos, Agora, Ethena, Rain, Axiym, Tassat, and others spanning the payments stack. The Collective brings together companies spanning stablecoins, settlement, treasury infrastructure, foreign exchange, custody, card issuance, business payments, asset management, and global payouts. Why? Because the future of payments requires more than faster transactions. Moving money globally requires liquidity, settlement, compliance, treasury management, custody, foreign exchange, and local payment networks working together as one. 🔺 28 leading organizations supporting payment flows across 150+ countries, 96 currencies, and ~22 billion payout endpoints are building on Avalanche. Over the last several years, Avalanche has quietly become home to one of the industry's broadest payments ecosystems. Now, that ecosystem has a name. Read more: https://www.avax.network/about/blog/avalanche-payments-collective https://avax.network/payments

GDP measures a country's economy. Until now, a blockchain had no equivalent. @AvalancheFDN just built one. Gross Chain Income (GCI) is a natural extension of the GCP framework, measuring new sources of value in the Avalanche economy. Read the Foundation's research here: https://www.avax.network/about/blog/from-gross-chain-product-to-gross-chain-income-where-the-value-goes

Time to pull the trigger. Summit ticket prices go up on August 15th. Last chance to lock in your spot at these prices. http://avalanchesummit.com

$1B+ in volume, putting idle capital to work. Olivia Vande Woude explains how Axiym uses stablecoin infrastructure on Avalanche to free up 70–90% of working capital with just-in-time funding.

True fans are 24/7. Fan engagement should be too. At Summit, Brandon Jirousek, SVP of Digital experience at the Cleveland Cavaliers, will show how the team is building on Avalanche to stay connected to fans outside Rocket Arena. Everyday purchases become rewards → Fan engagement grows. Brandon has built the Cavaliers’ digital operation from the ground up, leading web, mobile, growth, AI strategy, and Cavs Rewards. Through Cavs Rewards, everyday purchases can become game tickets, VIP experiences, merchandise, memorabilia, and digital achievements, giving fans more ways to engage wherever they live. Come to Summit to learn how one of the NBA’s most innovative digital teams combines great content, personalization, and loyalty technology to make fandom more rewarding year-round. Tickets: avalanchesummit.com Sept 16–17 | Chelsea Industrial, NYC

Blockchain enables better business outcomes. That’s the pitch. Morgan Krupetsky explains how Avalanche partners help businesses cut costs, increase efficiency, enter new markets, and unlock new revenue opportunities.

The next astronomy breakthrough might come from a backyard observer. But how can one prove an observation is real and unaltered? At Summit, Skymapper Inc Founder & CEO Franck Marchis will show how Skymapper, built on Avalanche, is answering that. Franck has spent his career expanding who can participate in astronomy, bridging professional research and citizen science. At SkyMapper, he’s building a platform that lets observations from amateur astronomers contribute to real scientific research, while creating a verifiable record of the data behind them. Come to Summit to hear how citizen science can scale beyond professional observatories, and how better infrastructure can make observations from anywhere more useful to researchers. Tickets: avalanchesummit.com Sept 16–17 | Chelsea Industrial, NYC

A $160B market. Zero platform loyalty. Fans love events, not buying tickets. Sports Illustrated Tickets chose to build something better. At Summit, CEO David Lane will explain how SI Tickets uses Avalanche to create lasting fan relationships. David launched Sports Illustrated Tickets in 2021 and has grown it into a live-events marketplace spanning sports, concerts, and theater, alongside an onchain primary ticketing platform. His view is simple: blockchain should stay out of the fan’s way while giving event organizers better tools to reward loyalty, build lasting relationships, and create value after the ticket is sold. Come to Summit to learn how SI Tickets is using Avalanche to rethink the ticket as more than admission, and turn a one-time purchase into an ongoing fan experience. Tickets: avalanchesummit.com Sept 16–17 | Chelsea Industrial, NYC